Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. The post SearchCap: Google AdWords ticket sales, flight search, AMP changes & more appeared first on Search Engine Land.

Effective immediately, Google AdWords is implementing stricter rules for advertisers that resell event tickets.

Google announced they have a new AdWords policy around ticket resellers. Specifically they now “require all event ticket resellers to be certified and to radically increase their transparency…

Advertisers can now rate calls and be notified of missed calls.

Are you getting Google search traffic from the AMP-based top stories carousel? Make sure your images are at least 1,200 pixels wide. The post Google now wants larger images for AMP articles appeared first on Search Engine Land

Aiming to make travel planning easier on a mobile device, Google is rolling out new tabs that let users switch between hotel, flight and trip details. The post Google adds new features & improves navigation for mobile hotel & flight searches appeared first on Search Engine Land

Google is continuing to enhance the travel search experience, adding the ability to book hotels from search results. The post Google Adds Hotel Bookings to Search Results by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Contributor Amy Bishop explains that improving quality score shouldn’t be a goal in itself, but solely a means to achieve your business goals. How to tell when it’s worth focusing on and when it’s not

Google’s new Search Console beta is now available to all sites, the company said in an announcement this week. The post New Google Search Console Now Available to All Sites by @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that even big sites that do paid links, buying or selling of links to pass PageRank or manipulate the Google search results, can be penalized and it is against Google’s webmaster guidelines…