Google announced it is no longer allowing the advertisement of prediction markets contracts and related products ads in Michigan and New York. Plus, Google also expanded Google Shopping ads and free listings eligibility to more countries.

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John Mueller responded to a plan to hide homepage links from Google in hopes only one internal anchor text would count, known as “first-link priority.” The post Google’s Mueller On First Link Priority & Link Obfuscation appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

TikTok will test detection for accounts posting AI-generated spam in politics, financial advice, and medical content, and has joined C2PA’s steering committee. The post TikTok Targets AI-Generated Spam Accounts In High-Risk Topics appeared first on Search Engine Journal

Google is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews and rolling out a redesigned Google Images homepage. Both start rolling out over the coming weeks

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

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Google Ads has posted that it has (1) expanded its alcohol policy to expand the approved geographic locations and (2) updated the gambling and games policy to expand the certification requirements to all categories under this policy.

Google Ads is now asking you to note a justification for when you request the removal of access for a user in your Google Ads account. Then that request is sent to another administrator for approval, with the justification you entered.

OpenAI made a number of clarification changes to its crawler help documentation to say that version number of the user-agent string may be updated and it may use a user-agent string with an additional robots.txt marker.