We had a few unconfirmed but big Google search ranking updates but we are still waiting on an official core update…

Did you know that Google Merchant Center will automatically crop your product images in Google Shopping if it thinks it will look better in Google Search? Did you know that you can also opt out of what they call “Smart Cropping"?

Google added a new user agent to the Googlebot’s user-triggered fetchers documentation. The new user agent is for the Chrome Web Store named Google-CWS.

Google Search Console has a bug with its API when filtering on the searchAppearance dimension. This bug occurs when using the notEquals or notContains operators, it will only return rows with the excluded value, instead of excluding those rows.

Google is supposedly testing an endless, infinite scroll for Google Discover. When I scroll through Google Discover, it eventually just stops and doesn’t keep going. But Gagan Ghotra said he is seeing it go on and on forever.

Extending Perion’s unified ad tech platform, while aiming to accelerate scalable, recurring and predictable, high-margin growth across Digital-Out-of-Home and Retail Media ecosystems Perion Network Ltd. , a leader in advanced technology solving for the complexities of modern advertising, announced the launch of the Perion DOOH Player, a next-generation solution that completes the company’s advanced full-stack […]

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