- Absence Of Google Ads In Search Leads RBC To Lower Estimates For Third Time In 3 Weeks
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 27, 2020
In what appears to be a broader trend in online advertising, RBC analysts lowered estimates for several online companies based on lower guidance and an absence of advertising across Google ...
- Google Donates $800M To Support Small Businesses, Facilitate Mask And Ventilator Production
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 27, 2020
Google said those with active advertising accounts during the past year will have access to free ad credits, about $340 million in aggregate. The goal is to help companies stay ...
- Desktop Search Leading Trend In Higher Content Consumption For Most Categories
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 27, 2020
Shelter-in-place mandates in the U.S. have given desktop searches a jump, especially during the past two weeks. ...
- Organic Travel Links Serving Up Higher In Google SERPs
Around the Net in Search Marketing, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 26, 2020
Free links from travel companies like TripAdvisor now appear higher in Google Search on desktop and mobile, but it isn't because regulators have clamped down on the search. One media ...
- Passover, Easter Virtual Dinner Ideas For Challenging Times
Search Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 27, 2020
This might be a good time to plan a virtual dinner by searching on Pinterest or sign up for the perfect streaming video platform in preparation for a virtual feast ...
- Citing Survival Of Small Businesses, Analysts Fear For Facebook, Google
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 26, 2020
Small business advertising is a major revenue driver for companies like Facebook, and Google, whose ads are meant to reach consumers. Consumer spending is about 70% of the U.S. ...
- Google/Gmail Hit With Thursday Outage
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, March 26, 2020
A router problem led to a Google/Gmail outage. Service is restored, the company says. ...
- Advertisers Ask Digital's Big 3 To Extend Payments During COVID-19 Crisis
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Advertisers are asking Google, Facebook and Microsoft to assist them in providing payment relief for advertising space as monthly invoices reach their grace period and become past due. The spread ...
- Google Seeks Dismissal Of Privacy Claims Over Search Query Transmissions
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
"No individual plaintiff alleges that he or she -- or any other Google Search user -- was actually identified by any search term, let alone that any harm resulted," Google ...
- Email Meter, Analytics Firm, Emerges From Stealth Mode
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Email Meter provides email statistics for Gmail enterprise domains, covering employee performance in marketing, sales and HR. ...
- Phoning It In: COVID-19 Drives Consumers Back To Speaking On Phones
Connected Thinking, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, March 24, 2020
Using a smartphone to talk is back, at least for now. For the longest time, consumers have been migrating to texting and web surfing on their smartphones. ...
- Google Sibling Verily Supports Two New California COVID-19 Testing Sites
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 23, 2020
Verily Life Sciences is helping the government and California to support two new COVID-19 California drive-through testing sites. The goal is to automate the workflow, rather than relying on manual ...
- Google Street View Privacy Settlement Granted Final Approval
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, March 20, 2020
A federal judge has approved Google's "Wi-Spy" settlement, which requires the company to pay around $10 million to nonprofits that promote online privacy. ...
- Ecommerce Ad Spending Rising Globally
Search Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, March 23, 2020
Ecommerce ad spending in the U.S. jumped from $4.8 million the week of Feb. 17 to $9.6 million the week of March 9. ...
- Android Adding 'Camera Go' To Low-Cost Phones
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Friday, March 20, 2020
The camera has features for tracking photo and video storage space and a simple interface. ...
- Waymo Suspends All Self-Driving Cars Due To COVID-19
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Friday, March 20, 2020
The company has been running a robotaxi service in Irvine since 2019. ...
- Ex-Google Engineer Pleads Guilty To Stealing Waymo Secrets
Around the Net in IoT, Chuck Martin - Friday, March 20, 2020
The former Google engineer who led the company’s self-driving car efforts pleaded guilty to stealing trade secrets from Waymo. ...
- Kids Rebel At Google's Home-School App With One-Star Reviews
Around the Net In MAD London, Sean Hargrave - Friday, March 20, 2020
Nobody is doubting the good intentions of the people at Google in offering a classroom app to help kids keep up with schoolwork from home -- other than the kids, ...
- Maryland Passes Digital Ad Tax
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 19, 2020
The Association of National Advertisers, which opposes the new tax, is asking Gov. Larry Hogan to veto it. ...
- Government Plan To Fight COVID-19 Could Result In 'Wholesale Privacy Invasion,' Senator Warns
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 19, 2020
"I urge you to balance privacy with any data-driven solutions to the current public health crisis," Sen. Ed Markey said in a letter to the White House. ...
- Health Experts Call On Google To Loosen Keyword-Buying Rules To Help Inform About COVID-19
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, March 19, 2020
Healthcare providers need to get verified and validated information out, and "Google is preventing the purchase of any COVID-19/Coronavirus keywords through their Google Ads platform," wrote Chris Pace, Banner Health ...
- Google Pausing Chrome Releases Due To COVID-19
AI & IoT Daily, Chuck Martin - Thursday, March 19, 2020
The company announced it's "pausing" the releases of updated Chrome and Chrome OS due to adjusted work schedules. ...
- YouTube Hit With New Children's Privacy Lawsuit
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
A Massachusetts mother of two is suing Google for allegedly tracking her children's YouTube viewing habits for ad purposes. ...
- Google News Initiative Launches Project Oasis, Supports Local News Entrepreneurs
Publishers Daily, Melynda Fuller - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
The project's goal is to help local news organizations navigate the choices they face in growing their digital business. ...
- Google Closes Fiber Retail Stores
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Google is shuttering Fiber retail stores and ceasing "outbound sales processes," but will install service for new customers, the company said. ...
- FTC Urged To Crack Down On Google Over Ads For Face Masks
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Two Senate Democrats want the FTC to crack down on Google for allegedly failing to enforce a ban on ads for face masks. ...
- No More Dodgy Buses -- It's Time To Regulate Political Ads
London Blog, Sean Hargrave - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
That's right -- political advertising is not regulated, and the Law Commission says it should be. It's hard to disagree. ...
- Senators Concerned About COVID-19 Health Data Leak
Search Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
A group of senators on Wednesday sent letters to the Trump Administration and Google addressing privacy and cybersecurity concerns involving a third-party company creating a website to test for COVID ...
- Baird Capital Lowers Google, Facebook Revenue Growth Estimates
Search Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Online services and advertising will continue to grow, but COVID-19 will become a disruption on media buying and impact revenue for some top companies in the ad space. ...
- Google Assistant Voice Added To Messaging App
Around the Net in IoT, Chuck Martin - Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Line has added Google Assistant voice to its messaging app for Android, allowing for hands-free messaging. ...
