Posted by morgan.mcmurray Here we are again — that time of year filled with wrap-ups and lookbacks and “best of” compilations. 2020 was a year like no other, and that’s certainly reflected in the topics covered by the blogs in the list

Merry Christmas to all those celebrating today, which I assume is most of you. Like always, most of the search engines dress up their home pages for the day

Happy Holidays and Christmas to all those celebrating…

I was asked to find out if the Google Core updates and Google BERT are related at all, if they have anything to do with each other. I’ll be honest, I was surprised by the question – I mean, there relation is they are both in Google Search. But BERT is focused on understanding language and core updates are about assessing quality in ranking

A couple months ago we saw Google testing a green search category navigation bubble shaped button in the mobile search results. Now I am seeing more reports of Google testing that button in other colors, like orange, gray and more

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

Google may be testing placing the black Ad label and the URL of the ad under the ad title/headline but above the ad description. This was reported to me on Twitter and no, I cannot replicate, but I can see Google testing this – why not.

Microsoft announced the launch of the Microsoft Advertising “health blog,” which really looks like a monitoring dashboard for the uptime and system status of the Microsoft Advertising applications, platform and APIs.