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Bing Celebrates Its 5th Birthday With A Walk Down Memory Lane & Extra Search Reward Credits

To celebrate its 5th birthday today, Bing has posted a retrospective of the last five years and is offering Bing Reward credit perks for any users who search on the site between now and June 9. Going all the way back to 2009, Microsoft’s search engine outlined its initial goals...
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Is Google adjusting the FLoC strategy?; Friday’s daily brief

Plus, HTML success factors for SEO Search Engine Land’s daily brief features daily insights, news, tips, and essential bits of wisdom for today’s search marketer. If you would like to read this before the rest of the internet does, sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox...
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Twitter’s top 500 advertisers could get free verification

As Twitter becomes more pay-to-play, it hurts smaller businesses and startups with limited followings and paid social advertising budgets. Twitter intends to impose a $1,000 monthly verification fee on organizations, but will exempt its 500 biggest advertisers and the 10,000...
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Study: 31% of international websites contain hreflang errors

Conflicting hreflang directives and missing self-referencing tags are among the widespread issues plaguing international websites today. Implementing hreflang can be a challenging task for many SEOs. The countless syntax variations across several languages can be difficult for...
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How paid placements will evolve alongside AI-powered search

Paid search will remain relevant, but advertisers must adjust their strategies to reach their targets in this new era of search. Here’s how. Google’s ad business will celebrate its 23rd year this fall, but not before paid search undergoes massive changes. As traditional...
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Ford Dropping AM Radio In All Consumer Vehicles

Ford is making the controversial decision to drop AM radio across its entire lineup, save its commercial vehicles. AM radio is not as popular as it once was, and many automakers no longer see it as a necessary feature. Tesla has not offered the option for years, and some European...
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The Travel Industry’s Growing Relationship With Social Commerce

The concept of social commerce is nothing new. Retailers, brands, and influencers have for some time been taking advantage of digital native tools to boost consumer engagement online and through social media. Now, the time has come for the travel and leisure industry to foster a...
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Bing Mobile Domain Returns Service Unavailable 503 Error

If you try to access Bing Mobile at m.bing.com, you will be presented with an error message. The error will read: The page you want isn’t available We’re working to restore service as soon as possible. The server error code also returns a major error, specifically a 503 error...
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Chrome tests Google side search in the browser

Also, Journeys is a new feature in Chrome that clusters your browsing history in a new way. Google Chrome is now testing side search, a new feature that makes it easier to compare search results on a single browser page. “We’re experimenting with a new side panel in the Chrome OS...
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Restaurants believe digital channels more important than consumers say they are

Online reviews cited by 48% of owners as influential; only 35% percent of consumers agreed. Retauranteurs are more likely than restaurant patrons to say digital marketing channels and reviews influence customers’ restaurant choices. Restaurant point of sale and management system,...