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Meta has announced it is introducing Personal Boundary for virtual reality, in an effort to prevent harassment in the metaverse. The tech industry has been working to be more inclusive and protect individuals from harassment in the real world. As the metaverse — the intersection...

At long last, Facebook’s social data is coming to search in a big way. Bing is now making use of it to show new “Liked By Your Friends” matches and Facebook-powered people search results. The move offers a huge amount of promise, and perhaps gives Bing a edge that Google can’t...

Alphabet announced revenue of $75 billion in Q4 of 2021. Of that, $61.2 billion came from Google advertising. Alphabet, parent company of Google, released its earnings report yesterday for its fourth quarter. In it, we learned Google search advertising revenue increased 35%...

Patagonia, North Face, Ben & Jerry’s and others have pledged to pull ads in July. Verizon Communications has become the highest-profile advertiser to announce it’s joining the “Stop Hate for Profit” campaign, which asks companies to pause their Facebook and Instagram ad...

Google will combine its advertiser identity and business operations verification programs under a unified Advertiser verification program. Google Ads will merge its advertising identify and business operation verification programs into a unified advertising verification program...

In Part 6 of our series, we detail the process behind crafting pillar pages for MarTech to better organize our topical coverage. Messy SEO is a column covering the nitty-gritty, unpolished tasks involved in the auditing, planning, and optimization of websites, using MarTech’s new...

Google is backing down after igniting a firestorm, and will not force free, legacy G Suite accounts to upgrade to paid Google Workspace plans. Google allows individuals and businesses to use its services in concert with their own domain name. This means they can have an email...

Amazon has agreed to shut down its “Sold by Amazon” program, and pay $2.25 million, in an agreement with the Washington Attorney General. Washington AG Bob Ferguson launched an investigation into Amazon’s “Sold by Amazon” program. The program effectively amounted to price-fixing,...

As you’ve no doubt already seen, Bing is holding an event at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley Campus at 11:30 Pacific/2:30 Eastern. Microsoft’s Qi Lu will be speaking and Facebook will be there. There should be some interesting news coming out of the event and we’ll be in attendance to...

The issue started on January 24 and is still ongoing, so please note this in your reports. Starting on January 24, 2022 and currently still ongoing, Google said there was a “logging issue” with Google “Search data for images” which may result in a drop in the number of clicks and...