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Google Lens stopped working for all users for a short period of time yesterday morning (NY time). Google confirmed the issue at 9:46am ET on Thursday, December 12th and then within the hour, they mitigated the issue.
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Google Lens Serving Outage Yesterday
Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirmed that campaign-level negative keywords are now in beta for Performance Max campaigns in Google Ads. She added that this will expand in 2025 to more accounts.
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Google: Campaign-Level Negative Keywords For Performance Max In Beta
Several weeks ago, Google announced it would test changes to the search results for hotels in order to see how the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in Europe would impact hotels. Well, that test is wrapped and the results were not good for hotels, says Google.
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Google Completes DMA Hotel Tests In Search
Google rolls out December 2024 core update, weeks after November update, capping off a year of notable algorithm changes. The post Google Rolls Out December 2024 Core Update appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Rolls Out December 2024 Core Update via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
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. Google is testing using Gemini 2.0 to power AI Overviews
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Daily Search Forum Recap: December 12, 2024
Google launches 24-hour data view in Search Console, offering near real-time insights for website performance monitoring. The post Google Launches New ’24 Hours’ View In Search Console appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
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Google Launches New ’24 Hours’ View In Search Console via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
Get insights into the top trends and launches in Google Ads.
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Google Ads 2024 Recap: With An Eye To 2025 via @sejournal, @adsliaison
Google announced its “new AI model” named Gemini 2.0 and with that confirmed Google has begun testing using Gemini 2.0 to power AI Overviews in Google Search. Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, said the improved AI Overviews can “tackle more complex topics and multi-step questions, including advanced math equations, multimodal queries and coding.”
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Google Is Testing Gemini 2.0 Powered AI Overviews In Search
Google Ads is testing a new asset type named video. It seems Google may be testing allowing advertisers to add video assets to their search ads and other Google Ads campaigns.
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Google Ads Testing Video Assets For Search Campaigns?
Apple released a ton of new Apple Intelligence features yesterday, including what I’ve been waiting to play with – Apple Visual Intelligence. It seems, at least for now, that Apple Visual Intelligence works with ChatGPT and Google Search but I was not able to trigger it for Apple Maps like the initial demo showed.
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Apple Visual Intelligence Is Out With ChatGPT & Google Integration