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Bing Adds Friend-Tagging To Social Sidebar

Bing has just announced a small tweak to how its Social Sidebar functions — but it’s one that overcomes one of the Sidebar’s true limitations. The change is this: When using the Social Sidebar, you can now tag up to five Facebook friends with whom you want to share your search...
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Google Search Console testing tools to match URL Inspection tool

The AMP, Mobile Friendly, and Rich Results testing tools will “align” with the URL Inspection tool, said Google. Google Search Console’s public-facing testing tools will be aligned more closely to the URL Inspection tool, the company announced today. Google said it is...
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Google Loses PR Chief Elliot Schrage To Facebook

It’s going to be harder for Google to spin they haven’t lost their mojo to Facebook with news of the latest exec to depart the Big G — that being chief spinmaster Ellliot Schrage bailing from being vice president of global communications at Google to become VP of communications...
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AMP links in Google Search break with iOS 15

This bug should be resolved soon according to a Google spokesperson. With the iOS 15 release on September 20th, AMP URLs in Google Search just stopped working. Google is aware of the issue and said the issue should be resolved soon. This is only impacting Google searchers using...
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SEO community mourns Hamlet Batista, advocate for automation in SEO and beloved friend

RankSense’s Maura Loew shares what it was like to work with Hamlet as we reflect on his career and contributions to the community. RankSense CEO Hamlet Batista, a mentor to many in the SEO community and someone fellow marketer Mike King called “the best of us,” died on Tuesday...
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Tesla Moving Its Headquarters to Texas

Another major company is moving its headquarters out of California, as Tesla is moving its headquarters to Texas. California has been losing companies at a record pace. Oracle, HPE and a slew of smaller companies have been leaving, or moving their headquarters out of the state....
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Brexit May Have Cost the UK an Intel Factory

Intel has ruled out the possibility of building a factory in the UK, thanks to Brexit. Chipmakers and governments are looking to expand semiconductor production outside of Asia. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the danger of having the bulk of the world’s chip supplies coming...
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Bing Now Handpicks News Writers For Its Social Sidebar

Bing is dipping its toes into a form of what Google calls “authorship” with today’s announcement that news writers are now being featured in Bing’s Social Sidebar. U.S.-based searchers can now see journalists appearing in the “People Who Know” section of the Bing sidebar. These...
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Google pushes back FLoC testing to Q1 2022

Google has updated its Privacy Sandbox timeline, delaying testing for several APIs, including FLoC and FLEDGE, to early next year. Google’s monthly Privacy Sandbox timeline update indicates that the company will push back FLoC testing from Q4 2021 (announced in July) to Q1 2022....
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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp Offline for Hours

Facebook is having major issues, as the company’s services have been down for hours, as of Monday afternoon. Individuals first started reporting issues late Monday morning, with virtually all of Facebook’s major properties impacted, including Facebook, Facebook Messenger,...