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Over 80,000 .EU domains owned by UK citizens are suspended due to new regulations imposed as a result of Brexit.

Well, 2020 is over – phew, right?

The other week we reported on Google testing a new UI that shows products with a review slider. Now it seems Google is testing this to show how large a product is in terms of volume in ML. Here is a search for bourbon that shows this bottle is “larger than most whisky” you may search for and is 750 ml

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

It looks like Google My Business insights, the area you go to see how much traffic, calls, messages, etc you get from Google Maps and Local, is missing data. The analytics data is missing from December 27th and 28th. Joy Hawkins posted a sample charge on Twitter and said she notified Google of the issue.

A couple hundred Googlers got together to start a rare union in the tech industry. It is called the Alphabet Workers Union and the union said “our company’s motto used to be “Don’t be evil.” An organized work force will help us live up to it.”

Google said this is currently an experiment but will share more details on how publishers can participate later.