Google Ads mobile app adds custom and performance insights notifications

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Google won’t build alternate IDs, doubles down on FLoC; Thursday’s daily brief

Plus, how to get your speaking pitches noticed Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.   Read more

Google My Business report shows how people found your business

You can now see device and platform breakdown in your Google My Business performance reports. Please visit Search Engine…  Read more

How Gootkit trojan distributes ransomware via Google SERPs

Unknowing developers that search forums for script help can fall victim to Gootkit trojan and ransomware attacks Please…  Read more

Google will not build or use alternate identifiers to track users across the web

Google reiterated that its products will use Federated Learning of Cohorts to enable advertisers to target audiences. Pl…  Read more

Creating An Outside Focus And Click Handler React Component

In this article, we’ll look at how to create an outside focus and click handler with React. We will recreate an open sou…  Read more

Google adds familiar face as Ads Product Liaison; Wednesday’s daily brief

Plus, advice from European PPC pros on how to navigate Maryland’s new ads tax Please visit Search Engine Land for the fu…  Read more

10 Steps to Blend STAT Ranking Data with Site Performance Metrics

Posted by AndrewMillerToo often, we assume that SEO best practices will work in any industry against any competitive set…  Read more

The State Of Mobile And Why Mobile Web Testing Matters

With mobile traffic accounting for over 50% of web traffic these days, leaving your mobile performance unoptimized isn’t…  Read more

Maryland’s ad tax is here, and advertisers should look to their European counterparts for how to deal with it

Last year, Google passed digital service taxes onto advertisers in the UK, Turkey and Austria, and it’s likely to do the…  Read more

Phone calls critical for business during the pandemic; Tuesday’s daily brief

Plus, we’re introducing research Tuesdays Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.   Read more

Semrush plans to go public after posting big 2020 growth

But the company says changes in access to third-party data and cookies could really disrupt its business. Please visit S…  Read more

We’re looking for skilled marketers to speak at SMX Advanced!

If you’re interested in speaking at SMX Advanced but haven’t pitched a session yet, now’s the time. Please visit Search…  Read more

Ginny Marvin joins Google as its new Ads Product Liaison

In her new role, the veteran PPC journalist and former Third Door Media editor-in-chief will be helping marketers learn…  Read more

State Of GDPR In 2021: Cookie Consent For Designers And Developers

As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted…  Read more

Unlock actionable tactics to craft compelling content

Join us online at SMX Create, April 13, to learn how amazing content can drive awareness, traffic, conversions, and sale…  Read more

Big brands find pandemic success with e-commerce platforms; Monday’s daily brief

Plus, pitch to speak at SMX Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.   Read more

Video: Steve Marin on content, SEO and using data as backup

We also spoke about ego ranking, how to help your clients write content and much more. Please visit Search Engine Land f…  Read more

Featured Snippets Drop to Historic Lows

Posted by Dr-PeteOn February 19, MozCast measured a dramatic drop (40% day-over-day) in SERPs with Featured Snippets, wi…  Read more

Fresh Inspiration For March And A Smashing Winner (2021 Wallpapers Edition)

Our wallpapers post this month is a special one: There’s not only a new collection of wallpapers created by creative fol…  Read more

How to identify your products for Google

Manufacturers, retailers and publishers should use structured data and provide an accurate GTIN whenever possible. Pleas…  Read more

Pinterest powers up creators during stressful times

How the visual discovery platform is rethinking stories and influencers Please visit Search Engine Land for the full art…  Read more

Building User Trust In UX Design

Trust is at the heart of a long-term strategy of any product. There are many ways to earn it, and even more ways to lose…  Read more

Don’t lose sleep over the Page Experience Update and more; Friday’s daily brief

Wouldn’t it be cool if Google told us when specific ranking factors were no longer being used? Please visit Search Engin…  Read more

Google Posts: Conversion Factor — Not Ranking Factor

Posted by Greg_GiffordWhile Google Posts aren’t a ranking factor, they can still be an incredibly effective resource for…  Read more

Building A Discord Bot Using Discord.js

An introduction to building a Discord bot using the Discord.js module. The bot will share random jokes, assign or revoke…  Read more

More Google Ads changes and SERP fluctuations; Thursday’s daily brief

Plus, hop on Twitter trends Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.   Read more

9 Best WordPress Plugins for 2021

There are few if any good reasons not to choose the best of the bunch when you’re looking for useful WordPress plugins t…  Read more

The Potential Impact of Gen Z on SEO

Posted by stewartfussellGeneration Z's behaviors differ from the cohorts that came before it, creating a new challenge f…  Read more

Google Search may be showing featured snippets less often

The tool providers are noticing a decline in the number of featured snippets showing up in the Google search results. Pl…  Read more

Material Design Text Fields Are Badly Designed

Where to put the label in a web form? In the early days, we talked about left-aligned labels versus top-aligned labels.…  Read more

How Did US Stimulus Checks Impact On-Site Traffic and Conversions? [Case Study]

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Create Responsive Image Effects With CSS Gradients And `aspect-ratio`

A classic problem in CSS is maintaining the aspect ratio of images across related components, such as cards. The newly s…  Read more

The Strategic Value of Structured Data Implementation on SME Websites

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State Of GDPR In 2021: Key Updates And What They Mean

As digital practitioners, GDPR has impacted every facet of our professional and personal lives. Whether you’re addicted…  Read more

7 Emerging Technologies in SEO and Their Applications

Posted by AbdulGaniy_ShehuSEO is a dynamic industry. What worked some weeks ago might not work again right now. As an SE…  Read more

Building Your Own Personal Learning Curriculum

As developers, we’re constantly learning new languages and frameworks. But how can you structure this learning to ensure…  Read more

How to Explain Domain Authority to a Non-SEO

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Context And Variables In The Hugo Static Site Generator

In this article, we take a look at the topic of context and variables in Hugo, a popular static site generator. You’ll u…  Read more

Presenting: The Essential Local SEO Strategy Guide

Posted by MiriamEllisUntie the ribbons and hear the paper crackle — it’s a handcrafted gift, ready for you to unwrap! Th…  Read more

Useful DevTools Tips And Shortcuts (Chrome, Firefox, Edge)

DevTools is very advanced and helpful, but can also be very intimidating and overwhelming. Let’s fix that. In this artic…  Read more

Optimizing Video For Size And Quality

Adding video to your application can increase customer engagement and satisfaction. But the exact opposite can occur whe…  Read more

Things To Expect From A Smashing Workshop: Form Design Masterclass

A couple of weeks ago, we organized a [Form Design Masterclass](https://smashingconf.com/online-workshops/workshops/adam…  Read more

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Film credits, brand logos, posters… Saul Bass did it all, and the principles that informed his work are just as valuable…  Read more

Building A Web App With React, Redux And Sanity.io

Headless CMS is a powerful and easy way to manage content and access API. Built on React, Sanity.io is a seamless tool f…  Read more

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In this article, Tobias explores some of the less known but very useful features in Git. You’ll learn how to recover del…  Read more

Smashing Podcast Episode 35 With Stephanie Stimac & Melanie Richards: What’s Next For HTML Controls?

In this episode, we’re talking about HTML controls. Why are they so hard to style, and how might that change in the futu…  Read more

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Wrangling z-index values is a difficult task for many developers. Here is an easy-to-implement mini-framework based on e…  Read more

Improving Your Team’s Communication In The Age Of Remote Work

Remote work is taking over the world, and the biggest obstacle remote teams face is emulating the natural communication…  Read more

Designing Better Tooltips For Mobile User Interfaces

Tooltips are powerful design patterns implemented to enhance the design experience by providing additional information p…  Read more

How To Port Your Web App To Microsoft Teams

On your list of places where people might access your web app, Teams is probably number “not-on-the-list”. But it turns…  Read more

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The present and future of CSS are very bright indeed and if you take a pragmatic, progressive approach to your CSS, then…  Read more

Right Message, Right Time: P&G’s “Lead with Love” Delivers.

This past week marked something of a milestone for The Recount – we launched a pilot marketing partnership with P&G, a c…  Read more

Inspiring Wallpapers For February 2021 And A Little Creativity Challenge

Let’s make this February more colorful! Apart from a new collection of wallpapers, we also have a little creativity chal…  Read more

Dynamic Static Typing In TypeScript

In this article, we look at some of the more advanced features of TypeScript, like union types, conditional types, templ…  Read more

How To Create An Engaging And Useful Chatbot

What makes a good chatbot experience? Most people think of witty responses and machine learning, but the basis of a chat…  Read more

The Wrong People Won

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Influencer Review – A look at What Influencer has to offer?

Nowadays, if you have a product, service, or brand that you want to “get out there” one of the best ways to do that is t…  Read more

From Design To Developer-Friendly React Code In Minutes With Anima

In this article, we’ll learn how to turn our static designs into a live, code-based prototype with real fields, forms, m…  Read more

Smashing Podcast Episode 34 With Harry Roberts: What’s The State Of Web Performance?

In this episode, we’re talking about Web Performance. What does the performance landscape look like in 2021? Drew McLell…  Read more

Making Remote Work Work: Useful Tools And Resources

How to stay creative, focused, and organized when working remotely? We've collected some useful tools and resources that…  Read more

When To Say No To Freelance Projects

For hungry freelancers, it can be hard to turn work away. But in the long run, saying no to a project that’s a bad fit w…  Read more

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In this article, we’ll take a close look at some of the changes we made on this very site — running on JAMStack with Rea…  Read more

How To Build A Node.js API For Ethereum Blockchain

In this article, John Agbanusi explains how you can build a Node.js API from scratch by building and deploying an Ethere…  Read more

Using Grommet In React Applications

In this tutorial, we’re going to learn how to use Grommet as a UI library for React applications. We’ll use Grommet as a…  Read more

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After creating a website and registering your domain name, there are about… The post SEMrush vs. Moz appeared first on W…  Read more

Stop Talking About Section 230. Start Talking About The Business Model.

For the past several years, I’ve led a graduate-level class studying the early history of Internet policy in the United…  Read more

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Catch up on what’s been cookin’ at Smashing and explore some of the most popular community resources featured in our new…  Read more

Web Design Trends 2021: The Report

2020 was anything but normal. Consumers had their lives shaken up and many businesses experienced new challenges as well…  Read more

Integrating A Dialogflow Agent Into A React Application

When it comes to building a conversational chat assistant that could be used at a small or enterprise level, Dialogflow…  Read more

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Smashing Podcast Episode 33 With Charlie Gerard: What Is Machine Learning?

In this episode, we’re talking about Machine Learning. What sort of tasks can we put it to within a web development cont…  Read more

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GetX is an extra lightweight solution for state, navigation, and dependencies management for Flutter applications. In th…  Read more

How To Make More Money Selling Shopify Apps In 2021

Developing a Shopify app and being able to sell it are two different things. While you might be a very skilled app devel…  Read more

Looking for the best 12 WordPress Themes in 2021? They’re in this article

The WordPress platform is a joy to work with. It offers one of the simplest ways to create colorful, well laid-out, and…  Read more

Predictions 2021: Disinformation, SPACs, Africa, Facebook, and a Return to Tech Optimism

Never in my five-plus decades has a year been so eagerly anticipated, which makes this business of  prediction particula…  Read more

Well That Was A Year: A Review of My 2020 Predictions

From the Department of Didn’t See THAT Coming… Yes, it’s true: Last year, I did not predict a global pandemic in 2020. C…  Read more

Media and Marketing Leaders: It’s Time to Stand Up For Truth

Why “information equity” matters.   An idea has been tugging at me for months now, one I’ve spent countless hours discus…  Read more

Ahrefs vs. Majestic

Building your website traffic requires a particular set of skills, including a… The post Ahrefs vs. Majestic appeared fi…  Read more

SpyFu vs. SEMRush

When it comes to digital marketing, few things are more important than… The post SpyFu vs. SEMRush appeared first on Web…  Read more

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Determining which Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool is best for your business… The post Ahrefs vs. Moz appeared firs…  Read more

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When you are looking to build an impactful website, using SEO tools… The post AHREFS vs. SEMrush appeared first on WebMo…  Read more

Web Designers: Check Out these 8 Black Friday 2020 Deals

Many shoppers, including web designers and web design teams, look forward to Black Friday as the year’s top shopping eve…  Read more

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Whether you run a personal site, a business portfolio, a storefront, or… The post Best Lightweight WordPress Themes for…  Read more

Best Email Marketing Services for Small Business

Email marketing is unusual in the advertising sphere. Unlike some forms of… The post Best Email Marketing Services for S…  Read more

Constant Contact vs. ConvertKit

No matter what type of website or blog you run, you likely… The post Constant Contact vs. ConvertKit appeared first on W…  Read more

ActiveCampaign vs. MailChimp

ActiveCampaign and MailChimp are both popular marketing automation tools. MailChimp delivers an… The post ActiveCampaign…  Read more

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Email is a powerful marketing tool for gaining new customers and increasing… The post AWeber vs. Mailchimp appeared firs…  Read more

The Recount Turns One

One year ago this week, a small group of journalists launched a completely reimagined approach to covering the news. We…  Read more

15+ Best Angular Admin Dashboard Templates of 2020 – Users Choice

We have compiled a list of best Angular templates for you. These offer you to start your web application and help you bu…  Read more

Facebook Is Finally Admitting It’s A Publisher

The video above is from a conversation at The Recount’s SHIFT event last month, between Nick Clegg, Facebook VP, Global…  Read more

How To Create & Sell Online Courses with WordPress For Free

One of the most profitable ways of turning your blog into a business is creating and selling an online course. In this g…  Read more

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Deciding to start a blog, whether it be for personal or professional use, is a great idea. With the rise in internet act…  Read more

6 Best WordPress Landing Page Plugins Compared (2020)

Are you struggling to grow your email list and generate more leads? Are you having trouble signing up people for your we…  Read more

How to Start a Blog: a Step-by-step Guide

These days it seems like nearly everyone has a blog. Blogs can be a great way to document your hobbies or interests, kee…  Read more

15 Best Brackets Extensions For A Smooth Coding Experience

Different coders prefer different code editors. But, when it comes to front-end design, there’s only one code editor tha…  Read more

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Google, Google, Google For well over a decade Google has dominated search to where most stories in the search sphere wer…  Read more

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This year is a rather easy year to be depressed. ;) COVID-19, fearmongering media, polarized hyper-charged social media,…  Read more

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Late Funnel SEO Profits Before the Panda update SEOs could easily focus almost all their energies on late funnel high-in…  Read more

30 Beautiful Google Fonts for Your Website

Finding attractive, user-friendly, legible fonts for your website isn’t always easy, but Google Fonts, launched in 2010,…  Read more

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How Brands Can Fix the Relationship Between Platforms, Audiences, and Media Companies (Hint: It’s Not a Boycott) (Second…  Read more

Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering

(First in a series. Post two, on Twitter’s solution, is here). Marketers – especially brand marketers: Too many of you h…  Read more

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The use of custom illustrations has been a big trend recently that is not likely going anywhere soon. The deal is that a…  Read more

How to Read Google Algorithm Updates

Links = Rank Old Google (pre-Panda) was to some degree largely the following: links = rank. Once you had enough links to…  Read more

7 Examples of Scroll-Triggered Animations in Web Design

These days it is quite difficult to imagine a modern website without any dynamic elements. Small, big, medium-sized they…  Read more

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To Teach, One Must Learn One of the benefits of writing is it forces you to structure your thoughts. If you are doing so…  Read more

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Historically cloaking was considered bad because a consumer would click expecting a particular piece of content or user…  Read more

Managing Algorithmic Volatility

Upon the recently announced Google update I've seen some people Tweet things like if you are afraid of algorithm updates…  Read more

New Version of SEO Toolbar

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Top 8 WP Multipurpose Themes that you should check out

There are situations when using a specialty theme will enable a web designed to proceed more easily and efficiently. But…  Read more

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If you’ve read Shoshana Zuboff’s Surveillance Capitalism, you likely agree that the most important asset for a data-driv…  Read more

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Google Gets Out of China In March of 2010 Google announced they would no longer censor their search results for China: e…  Read more

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Changing User Intents Google's search quality rater document highlights how the intent of searches can change over time…  Read more

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One of life’s pleasures is discovering when some small action taken yields a highly positive, or even a game-changing ou…  Read more

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The coronavirus issue is likely to linger for some time. GERMANY PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY PRESIDENT SAYS OUR ASSUMPTION IS T…  Read more

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WordPress is an ideal platform for building your own portfolio, blog, or eCommerce site. It’s packed with all the basic…  Read more

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Google recently copied their mobile result layout over to desktop search results. The three big pieces which changed as…  Read more

“Needle in a haystack” search problem? Check 15 of the very best WordPress themes for 2020

Having too many WordPress themes to choose among is of course better than having too few. But there are times when searc…  Read more

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Print Peppermint is one of the most refreshingly creative online printers on the internet at the moment. Their endless r…  Read more

Mobile App Website Inspiration: 20 Application Websites and Tips to Help You Design One

It may seem a bit curious that more than a few app websites are only given a cursory inspection by app owners. It is giv…  Read more

10 Top Cyber Monday Deals for Web Designers

Whether you’re skipping Black Friday to concentrate on Cyber Monday or planning for a shopping spree during both days do…  Read more

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Brand, Brand, Brand About 7 years ago I wrote about how the search relevancy algorithms were placing heavy weighting on…  Read more

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The Wayback Machine has a cool new feature for looking at the historical changes of a web page. The color scale shows ho…  Read more

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A Change to Nofollow Last month Google announced they were going to change how they treated nofollow, moving it from a d…  Read more

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Beyond search Google controls the leading distributed ad network, the leading mobile OS, the leading web browser, the le…  Read more

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Anyone can argue about the intent of a particular action & the outcome that is derived by it. But when the outcome is kn…  Read more

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When SEO Was Easy When I got started on the web over 15 years ago I created an overly broad & shallow website that had l…  Read more

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Brian McCullough, who runs Internet History Podcast, also wrote a book named How The Internet Happened: From Netscape to…  Read more

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It has been a while since Google has had a major algorithm update. They recently announced one which began on the 12th o…  Read more

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Google's original breakthrough in search was placing weight on links & using them to approximate the behavior of web use…  Read more

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Probably the single best video to watch to understand the power of Google & Facebook (or even most of the major problems…  Read more

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Grist Much like publishers, employees at the big tech monopolies can end up little more than grist. Products & product c…  Read more

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Wrastlin With The News The current presidential cabinet includes a WWE co-founder & this passes for modern political dis…  Read more

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In 2015, Myriam Sandler had a problem many moms face: Her baby daughter Nicole refused to eat solid foods. Spaghetti, so…  Read more

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Welcome to the latest edition of “My Path to Google,” where we talk to Googlers, interns and alumni about how they got t…  Read more

News Brief: February Updates from the Google News Initiative

At the Google News Initiative last month, we felt the love for new publisher tools, training programs and newsroom succe…  Read more

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Our next generation of Flutter, built for web, mobile, and desktop Today, we’re announcing Flutter 2: a major upgrade t…  Read more

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Kübra speaking at Women Techmakers Ambassadors North America Summit.In this post:Kübra Zengin found it difficult to brea…  Read more

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It’s difficult to conceive of the internet we know today — with information on every topic, in every language, at the fi…  Read more

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As a parent to two young kids, bedtime stories are a big part of our evening ritual. My daughter, who’s almost 4, can no…  Read more

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For four weeks each summer, Google works with aspiring first-year college students interested in computer science, parti…  Read more

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During a turbulent year grappling with COVID-19, businesses leaned heavily on mobility to adapt to hybrid and work-from-…  Read more

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Digital products for news consumers are becoming increasingly more important for the success of news organizations, whet…  Read more

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Beginning in May 2021, the Display & Video 360 API will start enforcing new validation when creating or updating line it…  Read more

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The best part of your Pixel is that it keeps getting even more helpful, and even more unique. With regular updates, Pixe…  Read more

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Last March, Google’s Women Techmakers (WTM) community was preparing for International Women’s Day with hundreds of in-pe…  Read more

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In this post: Rich Jones, who works in people operations at Google, is the host of a personal finance podcast called Pay…  Read more

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Melonie Parker graduating from Hampton University, a historically Black research university in Hampton, Virginia.We have…  Read more

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Radio reaches more Americans every week than any other platform. Public radio stations in the United States have over 3,…  Read more

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New Association functionality added to Search Console

We're happy to announce that Search Console has a new and enhanced Association page. Any associations that were previous…  Read more

Introducing Model Search: An Open Source Platform for Finding Optimal ML Models

Posted by Hanna Mazzawi, Research Engineer and Xavi Gonzalvo, Research Scientist, Google Research The success of a neura…  Read more

Announcing v202102 of the Google Ad Manager API

We're happy to announce that v202102 of the Google Ad Manager API is available starting today. Upgrade to this version t…  Read more

Mastering Atari with Discrete World Models

Posted by Danijar Hafner, Student Researcher, Google Research Deep reinforcement learning (RL) enables artificial agents…  Read more

First preview of Android 12

Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering Every day, Android apps help billions of people work, play, communicate, and cr…  Read more

Join us at Search Central Live

On February 24, we will host our first installment of our new event series called Search Central Live.   Read more

These Black tech creators are changing the domain

Posted by Jermaine Robinson, Google Registry Team It’s been two years since the Google Registry team launched its #MyDom…  Read more

Rearranging the Visual World

Posted by Andy Zeng and Pete Florence, Research Scientists, Robotics at Google Rearranging objects (such as organizing b…  Read more

Join the Women of Publishing webinar series

With our third annual 2021 Women of Publishing Leadership Series, we're eager to accelerate the growth of women-led smal…  Read more

3D Scene Understanding with TensorFlow 3D

Posted by Alireza Fathi, Research Scientist and Rui Huang, AI Resident, Google Research The growing ubiquity of 3D senso…  Read more

Uncovering Unknown Unknowns in Machine Learning

Posted by Lora Aroyo and Praveen Paritosh, Research Scientists, Google Research The performance of machine learning (ML)…  Read more

Quality to match with your user’s expectations

Posted by Hoi Lam, Android App Quality Since the launch of Android more than 10 years ago, the platform and the user’s…  Read more

New Personalized Advertising Policies Enforcement in Google Ads API and AdWords API

Starting March 25, 2021, we are rolling out a change in the Google Ads API and AdWords API, to require advertisers who a…  Read more

Announcing v6.1 of the Google Ads API

Today, we’re announcing the v6.1 release of the Google Ads API. To use some of the v6.1 features, you will need to upgra…  Read more

Announcing Kotlin Symbol Processing (KSP) Alpha

Posted by Ting-Yuan Huang‎, Software Engineer and David Winer, Product Manager Today we are excited to announce the alp…  Read more

Introducing Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.4.1

Today, we're announcing the general release of Publisher Ads Audits for Lighthouse v1.4.1. The major highlights of this…  Read more

New curriculum for educators to teach Android app development

Posted by Kat Kuan, Developer Advocate, Android We strive to make Android development content accessible to all, so tha…  Read more

Sunsetting Portofolio Enhanced CPC Bid Strategies

On March 22, 2021 we will begin to sunset portfolio (shared) Enhanced cost-per-click (ECPC) bid strategies. The followin…  Read more

TracIn — A Simple Method to Estimate Training Data Influence

Posted by Frederick Liu and Garima Pruthi, Software Engineers, Google Research The quality of a machine learning (ML) mo…  Read more

Changes to phrase match and broad match modifier

On February 4, 2021, we announced upcoming changes to phrase match and broad match modifier. To simplify the keyword por…  Read more

Machine Learning for Computer Architecture

Posted by Amir Yazdanbakhsh, Research Scientist, Google Research One of the key contributors to recent machine learning…  Read more

The Invoice Service of Google Ads API is out of beta

The InvoiceService is now available for all API users starting with version 6 of the Google Ads API. Earlier API version…  Read more

Evaluating Design Trade-offs in Visual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Posted by Mohammad Babaeizadeh, Research Engineer and Dumitru Erhan, Research Scientist, Google Research Model-free rein…  Read more

Disabling "lead" category mutates in AdWords API

On March 8, 2021 we're disabling mutates to the Lead category in the AdWords API. The Google Ads API ConversionActionCat…  Read more

Search Console Discover report now includes Chrome data

Starting today, all your Discover traffic (including from Chrome) will be shown in the Performance report for Discover.   Read more

#AndroidDevJourney spotlight - January edition

Posted by Luli Perkins, Developer Relations Program Manager We kicked off the #AndroidDevJourney to give members of our…  Read more

Learning to Reason Over Tables from Less Data

Posted by Julian Eisenschlos, AI Resident, Google Research, Zürich The task of recognizing textual entailment, also know…  Read more

January update to Display & Video 360 API v1

Today we’re releasing an update to the Display & Video 360 API which includes the following features: Support for retrie…  Read more

Sunset of the Ad Manager API v202002

On Monday, March 1, 2021, in accordance with the deprecation schedule, v202002 of the Ad Manager API will sunset. At tha…  Read more

Improving Mobile App Accessibility with Icon Detection

Posted by Gilles Baechler and Srinivas Sunkara, Software Engineers, Google Research Voice Access enables users to contro…  Read more

Expanding the reach of your Android Auto apps

Posted by Eric Bahna, Product Manager In December, we opened the Google Play Store for publishing new Android Auto apps…  Read more

How we’re helping developers with differential privacy

Posted by Miguel Guevara, Product Manager, Privacy and Data Protection Office At Google, we believe that innovation and…  Read more

Addressing Range Anxiety with Smart Electric Vehicle Routing

Posted by Kostas Kollias and Sreenivas Gollapudi, Research Scientists, Google Research Mapping algorithms used for navig…  Read more

Stabilizing Live Speech Translation in Google Translate

Posted by Naveen Arivazhagan, Senior Software Engineer and Colin Cherry, Staff Research Scientist, Google Research The t…  Read more

Join us for #30DaysOfFlutter

Posted by Nikita Gandhi (Community Manager, GDG India), Nilay Yener (Program Manager, Flutter DevRel) Happy New Year fo…  Read more

Changes to Hotel Ads pricing buckets in the Google Ads API

On February 23rd, Google Ads API will be changing the way Hotel price buckets returns data by utilizing two new values i…  Read more

Announcing new Real-time Bidding experiments

Google is launching experiments that are intended to provide bidders with an opportunity to test and provide collaborati…  Read more

Improving Indian Language Transliterations in Google Maps

Posted by Cibu Johny, Software Engineer, Google Research and Saumya Dalal, Product Manager, Google Geo Nearly 75% of Ind…  Read more

21 websites and apps to make your 2021 better

Posted by Christina Yeh, Google Registry Team Google Registry is always on the lookout for interesting websites that hav…  Read more

RxR: A Multilingual Benchmark for Navigation Instruction Following

Posted by Alexander Ku, Software Engineer and Peter Anderson, Research Scientist, Google Research A core challenge in ma…  Read more

Ad Policy Error Management is evolving in Google Ads API

Update (February 11, 2021): Added APP_AD and APP_ENGAGEMENT_AD to the list of ad types that are impacted by this change.…  Read more

ToTTo: A Controlled Table-to-Text Generation Dataset

Posted by Ankur Parikh and Xuezhi Wang, Research Scientists, Google Research In the last few years, research in natural…  Read more

MAD Skills Kotlin and Jetpack: wrap-up

Posted by Florina Muntenescu, Developer Relations Engineer We just wrapped up another series of MAD Skills videos and a…  Read more

Changes to conversion columns in AdWords API and Scripts

What's changing?We are introducing restrictions on certain combinations of conversion columns in AdWords API and Google…  Read more

Recognizing Pose Similarity in Images and Videos

Posted by Jennifer J. Sun, Student Researcher and Ting Liu, Senior Software Engineer, Google Research Everyday actions,…  Read more

Community leaders upskill themselves and find new roles with Elevate by Google Developers

Posted by Kübra Zengin, GDG North America Regional Lead Image of participants in a recent Elevate workshop. The North A…  Read more

Google Research: Looking Back at 2020, and Forward to 2021

Posted by Jeff Dean, Senior Fellow and SVP of Google Research and Health, on behalf of the entire Google Research commun…  Read more

Update to Customer Match Uploads in the Google Ads API and the AdWords API Starting March 1, 2021

On March 1, 2021, the Google Ads API and the AdWords API will have a new upload limit for each Customer Match upload req…  Read more

Solve for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals with Google technologies in this year’s Solution Challenge.

Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs Created by the United Nations in 2015 to…  Read more

Introducing Google News performance report

Today we are launching Google News performance reporting to help news publishers better understand user behavior on Goog…  Read more

The google_global_site_tag will no longer be filterable in Google Ads API

What's changing?Starting the week of Jan 25, 2021, the customer.remarketing_setting.google_global_site_tag field will no…  Read more

Index Coverage Data Improvements

Based on the feedback we got from the community, today we are rolling out significant improvements to the Index Coverage…  Read more

Announcing New Smart Home App Discovery Features

Posted by Toni Klopfenstein, Developer Advocate When a user connects a smart device to the Google Assistant via the Hom…  Read more

Google Ads API v3 sunset reminder

Google Ads API v3 will sunset on February 10, 2021. After this date, all v3 API requests will begin to fail. Please migr…  Read more

End-to-End, Transferable Deep RL for Graph Optimization

Posted by Yanqi Zhou and Sudip Roy, Research Scientists, Google Research An increasing number of applications are driven…  Read more

A Google for Startups Accelerator for startups using voice technology to better the world

Posted by Jason Scott, Head of Startup Developer Ecosystem, U.S., Google At Google, we have long understood that voice…  Read more

Announcing gRPC Kotlin 1.0 for Android and Cloud

Posted by Louis Wasserman, Software Engineer and James Ward, Developer Advocate Kotlin is now the fourth most loved pro…  Read more

Treble Plus One Equals Four

Posted by Iliyan Malchev (Project Treble Architect), Amith Dsouza (Technical Account Manager) , and Veerendra Bhora (St…  Read more

2020 Google Assistant developer Year in Review

Posted by Payam Shodjai, Director, Product Management Google Assistant With 2020 coming to a close, we wanted to reflec…  Read more

Opening the Google Play Store for more car apps

Posted by Eric Bahna, Product Manager In October, we published the Android for Cars App Library to beta so you could st…  Read more

A weird year in review

2020, what a year this was! We found new ways to work and collaborate, to learn and have fun, and also to stay safe.   Read more

Privacy Considerations in Large Language Models

Posted by Nicholas Carlini, Research Scientist, Google Research Machine learning-based language models trained to predic…  Read more

What’s your MAD score?

Posted by Christopher Katsaros; Your #MADscore tabulator We’ve been talking to you a lot recently about modern Android…  Read more

An update on the Structured Data Testing Tool

In July, we announced that the Rich Results Test is out of beta. In that blog post, we said that the Structured Data Tes…  Read more

Meet the Google Workspace Developer Experts

Posted by Charles Maxson, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud Superheroes are well known for wearing capes, fighting villa…  Read more

Announcing the Newest Addition to MLKit: Entity Extraction

Posted by Kenny Sulaimon, Product Manager, ML Kit, Tory Voight, Product Manager, ML Kit, Daniel Furlong, Lei Yu, Bhakti…  Read more

Portrait Light: Enhancing Portrait Lighting with Machine Learning

Posted by Yun-Ta Tsai1 and Rohit Pandey, Software Engineers, Google Research Professional portrait photographers are abl…  Read more

MAD Skills Material Design Components: Wrap-Up

Posted by Nick Rout It’s a wrap_content! The third topic in the MAD Skills series of videos and articles on Modern Andr…  Read more

MediaPipe Holistic — Simultaneous Face, Hand and Pose Prediction, on Device

Posted by Ivan Grishchenko and Valentin Bazarevsky, Research Engineers, Google Research Real-time, simultaneous percepti…  Read more

Get ready to up your Apps Script!

Posted by Charles Maxson, Developer Advocate, Google Cloud It’s been a little over a decade since Apps Script was intro…  Read more

Updates to Search Console’s API

A few months ago we announced an API infrastructure upgrade to improve the performance of the Search Console API as dema…  Read more

Google at NeurIPS 2020

Posted by Jaqui Herman and Cat Armato, Program ManagersThis week marks the beginning of the 34th annual Conference on Ne…  Read more

Improving urban GPS accuracy for your app

Posted by Frank van Diggelen, Principal Engineer and Jennifer Wang, Product Manager At Android, we want to make it as e…  Read more

Celebrate #CSEdWeek with Google Developers!

Posted by Google Developer StudioComputer Science Education Week kicks off on Monday, December 7th and runs through the…  Read more

December update to Display & Video 360 API v1

Today we’re releasing an update to the Display & Video 360 API which includes the following features: A new search metho…  Read more

Using AutoML for Time Series Forecasting

Posted by Chen Liang and Yifeng Lu, Software Engineers, Google Research, Brain Team Time series forecasting is an import…  Read more

AGP 7.0: Next major release for the Android Gradle plugin

Posted by Murat Yener, Developer Advocate Today marks the release of the first Canary version of Android Studio Arctic…  Read more

Announcing Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) & Android Gradle plugin 7.0

Posted by Jamal Eason, Product Manager Today marks the release of the first version of Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.…  Read more

AGP 7.0: Next major release for the Android Gradle plugin

Posted by Murat Yener, Developer Advocate Today marks the release of the first Canary version of Android Studio Arctic…  Read more

Announcing Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.3.1) & Android Gradle plugin 7.0

Posted by Jamal Eason, Product Manager Today marks the release of the first version of Android Studio Arctic Fox (2020.…  Read more

Aligning thousands of Billie Eilish covers in an infinite music video experiment

Posted by Google Creative Lab “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish is one of the most-covered songs on YouTube, inspiring thousan…  Read more

Live Webinar: Website Conversions & Audience Remarketing

The Google Ads API Developer Relations team will be hosting a live webinar, Website Conversions & Audience Remarketing w…  Read more

Upcoming sunset for DBM API v1, SDF Download and Line Item services

As announced in August, deprecated services in the DoubleClick Bid Manager (DBM) API, comprised of DBM API v1, the DBM A…  Read more

Irem from Turkey shares her groundbreaking work in TensorFlow and advice for the community

Posted by Jennifer Kohl, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Groups Irem presenting at a Google Developer Group ev…  Read more

Irene from Spain inspires others to learn Google technologies with her new podcast and more

Posted by Erica Hanson, Global Program Manager, Google Developer Student Clubs (Irene (left) and her DSC team from the…  Read more

New and improved crawl stats for your site

To help website owners better understand how crawls their sites, we’re launching a brand new version of the in Search Co…  Read more

Celebrating devs from Brazil on Black Consciousness Day

Posted by Patricia Correa - Director, Global Developer Marketing Editor's note: Last night, on the eve of the Black Con…  Read more

Coral makes edge AI even more accessible in 2020

Posted by the Coral team Since we launched Coral back in March 2019, we’ve added a number of new product form factors to…  Read more

We moved! Introducing the new home for the Google Webmasters blogs

Last week we changed our name to Google Search Central and published our new central site. As part of this site migratio…  Read more

Goodbye Google Webmasters, hello Google Search Central

Merriam-Webster claims the first known use of the word webmaster was in 1993, years before Google even existed. However,…  Read more

Timing for bringing page experience to Google Search

This past May, we announced that page experience signals would be included in Google Search ranking. These signals measu…  Read more

PES@Home 2020: Google’s first virtual summit for Product Experts

More than ever, users are relying on Google products to do their jobs, educate their kids, and stay in touch with loved…  Read more

Best practices for Black Friday and Cyber Monday pages

The end of the year holiday season is a peak time for many merchants with special sales events such as Black Friday and…  Read more

The Search Console Training lives on

In November 2019 we announced the Search Console Training YouTube series and started publishing videos regularly. The go…  Read more

New Schema.org support for retailer shipping data

Quick summary: Starting today, we support shippingDetails schema.org markup as an alternative way for retailers to be el…  Read more

A guide to common AdSense policy questions

AdSense program policies help ensure we preserve a healthy digital ecosystem for the benefit of all users, advertisers a…  Read more

New open source robots.txt projects

Last year we released the robots.txt parser and matcher that we use in our production systems to the open source world.…  Read more

Helping global publishers accelerate business growth

Since launching the Google News Initiative in 2018, we’ve worked with news organizations of all sizes as they’ve adapted…  Read more

Googlebot will soon speak HTTP/2

Quick summary: Starting November 2020, Googlebot will start crawling some sites over HTTP/2.   Read more

The new AdSense reporting is live

The mission of AdSense Reporting is to enable publishers to make decisions to grow their businesses by providing informa…  Read more

Resources to help optimize your business

Online content and media consumption behaviors are continuously evolving. If you'd like to optimize your online business…  Read more

Welcome to Google AdSense

Creating content your audience loves takes time, but making it profitable shouldn’t. That’s where Google AdSense comes i…  Read more

Join the Women of Publishing webinar series

The 2020 Women of Publishing Leadership Series is now open for registration. This annual program is designed to facilita…  Read more

Refining your website’s user experience in 3 steps

There are plenty of sites out there. Beyond producing great content, it’s vital to make yours stand out. How? One way is…  Read more

Creating outstanding website content in 3 steps

Great content marketing not only drives new visitors to your site, but also entices previous visitors to come back. A co…  Read more

Keep your audience engaged post holidays

Congrats on completing the marathon. What happens now? You might notice a drop in your RPMs and impressions. Don’t panic…  Read more

Build your content during the holiday season

Holiday season is driven by users purchasing for themselves and for family’s gifts.Don’t worry, even if your content is…  Read more

Start preparing for the holiday season now

Anticipation is key, start preparing now! The holiday shopping season starts in September with queries starting to incre…  Read more

Your Google AdSense seasonal guide

This guide is here to help you learn about the importance of seasonality as well as provide you with tips on how to get…  Read more

Introducing the new and improved Auto ads

This time last year, we committed to making AdSense more assistive and powerful. We're excited to announce a significant…  Read more

AdSense now understands Marathi

Today, we’re excited to announce the addition of Marathi, a language spoken by over 80 millions people in Maharashtra, I…  Read more

Simplifying our content policies for publishers

One of our top priorities is to sustain a healthy digital advertising ecosystem, one that works for everyone: users, adv…  Read more

Additional safeguards to protect the quality of our ad network

Supporting a healthy ads ecosystem that works for publishers, advertisers, and users continues to be a top priority in o…  Read more

Additional safeguards to protect the quality of our ad network

Supporting a healthy ads ecosystem that works for publishers, advertisers, and users continues to be a top priority in o…  Read more

Upcoming changes to the AdSense mobile experience

The web is mobile.Nearly 70% of AdSense audiences experience the web on mobile devices. With new mobile web technologies…  Read more

We’ve moved. Come visit us.

Over ten years ago, we wrote our first post on our Geo Developers blog, and today we’re sharing our new location for the…  Read more

Falling Fruit helps urbanites forage for food using Google Maps Platform

Posted by Ethan Welty, Co-founder, Falling FruitEditor’s note: Today’s post comes from Ethan Welty, Co-founder of Fallin…  Read more

How Google Maps helps amateur and professional archaeologists ponder the mysteries of Stonehenge’s burial mounds

Posted by Simon Banton, “Hengemaster,” Stonehenge Barrow MapEditor’s note: Today’s post comes from Simon Banton: softwar…  Read more

How WhyHunger uses Google Maps to connect people to grassroots community food sources

Posted by Alison Cohen, Senior Director of Programs, WhyHungerEditor's Note: Today’s blog is the first in a series of po…  Read more

Expanded support for Google public programs

Posted by Amit Litsur, Product Manager, Google Maps PlatformGoogle is committed to supporting organizations with public…  Read more

Reminder—set-up a Google Cloud Platform Console account

Posted by the Google Maps Platform teamOn May 2, we announced changes including our new simplified Maps, Routes, and Pla…  Read more

Introducing Google Maps Platform

Posted by the Google Maps Platform teamIt’s been thirteen years since we opened up Google Maps to your creativity and pa…  Read more

The real world as your playground: Build real-world games with Google Maps APIs

Posted by Clementine Jacoby, Product Manager, Google Maps APIsThe mobile gaming landscape is changing as more and more s…  Read more

Updated basemap style for Google Maps APIs

Posted by Rose Yao, Director Product, Google Maps APIsGoogle Maps APIs will soon be updated with a new look and feel to…  Read more

With Google Maps APIs, Toyota Europe keeps teen drivers safe and sound

Posted by Christophe Hardy, Manager of Social Business at Toyota Motor EuropeEditor’s note: Today’s post is from Christo…  Read more

Removing Place Add, Delete & Radar Search features

Back in 2012, we launched the Place Add / Delete feature in the Google Places API to enable applications to instantly up…  Read more

Get your users where they need to go on any platform with Google Maps URLs

Last week at Google I/O we announced Google Maps URLs, a new way for developers to link directly to Google Maps from any…  Read more

Google Maps and Particle partner to bring location-aware capabilities to IoT devices

Posted by Ken Nevarez, Solutions Architect for Google Maps APIsParticle and Google Maps make it easy for IoT devices to…  Read more

Introducing structured menus in the Google My Business API

Every day, millions of people search on Google for places to eat and drink and many click to see the menu before making…  Read more

A new issue tracker for Google Maps APIs

Posted by Kasia Derc-Fenske, Technical Solutions Engineer Manager, Google Cloud and Jesse Scherer, Technical Program Man…  Read more

Google Maps APIs sessions at Google Next ‘17

Next 2017 is just a few days away and we’re looking forward to three days of insightful conversations, amazing technolog…  Read more

Do you like the new look of the Maps APIs tutorials?

Until recently, our docs have focused on describing features rather than telling a story. We chatted to some developers…  Read more

Styling and custom data for polylines and polygons in the Google Maps Android API

Polygons, polylines and ground overlays are useful tools to make your maps work for your users. Today we are rolling out…  Read more

Open-Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise

Editors Note: Google Earth Enterprise (GEE) launched on GitHub on March 23, 2017. You can also get more information on t…  Read more

Introducing insights in the Google My Business API

Posted by Aditya Tendulkar, Product Manager, Google My BusinessToday we are introducing business location insights in th…  Read more

Geolocation and Firebase for the Internet of Things

Posted by Ken Nevarez, Industry Solutions Lead at GoogleGPS is the workhorse of location based services, but there are u…  Read more

Address Geocoding in the Google Maps APIs

Forward Geocoding is the process of converting addresses (like a street address) into geographic coordinates (latitude a…  Read more

Smart scrolling comes to mobile web maps

If you’re building a website today, your users are more likely to view it on a mobile device than on a desktop or laptop…  Read more

Key Improvements for Your Maps API Experience

Originally posted on the Google Developers blog.Posted by Israel Shalom, Product ManagerHere at Google, we’re serving mo…  Read more

A sizzling open source release for the Australian Election site

One of the best parts of my job at Google is 20 percent time. While I was hired to help developers use Google’s APIs, I…  Read more