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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...

Facebook was dealt a major blow today as Judge James Boasberg ruled the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) suit against it will not be dismissed. The FTC had previously sued Facebook in December 2020, over what it said was anticompetitive behavior, only to have Judge Boasberg throw...

Search data provides a wealth of insights for marketers. At SMX Next, Matt Colebourne shows how to use this information to make better business decisions. Much like a physical marketplace, the online search environment has both its successful businesses and those that fail to...

Position Imaging has announced its Smart Package Room Partner Program, designed to help multi-unit properties deal with package deliveries. The global pandemic has upended the retail market, with consumers relying on home deliveries more than ever. The increased number of...

The UK government has hired a high-powered ad agency for a full-fledged assault on end-to-end encryption (E2EE). The UK government has long been opposed to E2EE. Despite the importance of E2EE in virtually every aspect of digital life, critics criticize it for making it harder to...

Microsoft announced that it has hired CloudeMade and OpenStreetMap (OSM) founder Steve Coast as “Principal Architect for Bing Mobile,” as well as a kind of liason to the “open map community.” According to data in the Bing post announcing Coast’s hiring, there are “more than...

Google has unveiled a dedicated ‘Desktop’ section in the Page Experience reports of its Search Console. Google had already rolled Page Experience for mobile, but is now adding the feature for desktop, and will soon use it as part of its desktop ranking system. We’ll begin using...