Google’s AI crawler, Google-Extended, the crawler it uses for Gemini and other related AI services, does render itself and can render JavaScript, just like Googlebot, Google’s main web search crawler.

Google may be testing replacing local pack at the top of the Google Search results for “near me" related queries with an AI Overview. So instead of showing a map and the three or so local listings, Google is showing an AI Overview with some local information.

Google is testing a new label or green text on its shopping ads to tell you when the price of that item is low. The label says “Lowest in 30 days," which says the price is the lowest it has been in the past month.

Google AdSense will remove the ability to block the video games category of ads. So if you previously told AdSense not to show ads related to video games on your site or in your apps, that block will soon not be respected.

Google announced a number of new tag, analytics and data strategies on Friday including a new Google tag gateway for advertisers. Google tag gateway for advertisers allows you to run your Google tags, be it client-side or server-side through your own website infrastructure, such as a content delivery network (CDN), load balancer, or web server.

Google Ads search themes for Performance Max campaign has a limit of 25 search themes per asset group. Well, according to Thomas Eccel, Google is testing doubling that limit to 50 search themes per asset group.

Get B2B buying groups talking with this new playbook: persona building, buyer-led content, continuous optimization, and empowering sales teams to nurture buyer relationships.
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Google’s “before:” and “after:” operators let you filter by date, but they’re still in beta
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