Google announced a bunch of new or updated tools from the Google Ads side yesterday. These include an updated test my site portal, feeds in app campaigns and deferred deep linking, deep linking expansions and a new ad destination report.

Google is testing showing just a single star icon for the star rich results, even if the rich results should show multiple stars. This was spotted by Vlad Rappoport and here is the screen shot he posted on Twitter.

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Google is sending out emails that it will be sunsetting, discontinuing, the Google Partners Acceleration program on June 30, 2020. The email says “We are sunsetting the Acceleration program. The program will officially end on June 30, 2020.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today…

Google is working on a way to combine data from Search Console and Analytics together in one report that is accessible from either service. The post Google Combining Search Console & Analytics Data Into One Report via @MattGSouthern appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Google announced yesterday that instead of just giving you the option to set your deletion settings to happen, it will do so for you. Instead of defaulting to not deleting your Google history, Google will set your search data to delete after 18-months, YouTube data after 36-months, etc.

Currently available for clothing and shoes, users can upload an image or click on a product result to shop for visually similar items. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

The update is part of a number of new privacy changes being implemented. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article

SEO tools and a process to determine what was hit and how to fix it. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.