We saw tests for these in Sep 2020 and it looks like now it’s officially rolling out to eligible services businesses. Anyone can add an opening date in GMB to tell customers when your business [...]

Google has just removed the page about joining the 3D and AR Early Adopters Program. They say the feature remains in development with a select group of providers, but the program is no longer accepting submissions.

Starting in March 2021 and continuing through April 2021, all existing search, shopping, and Dynamic Search Ads campaigns without any automated bidding strategies in place will be automatically migrated to Enhanced CPC. All ad groups [...]

On March 9th, 2021, Elementor (one of the most popular site builder plugin for WordPress) will be adding new Studio and Agency Pro subscription plans and adapting the Expert plan, If you’re on an existing [...]

Instagram says it’s making changes to its algorithm and how it recommends Reels to users. The team now recommends that Reels users post vertical videos that use music found in Instagram’s library or sounds that [...]

Looks like now you can make your story text move, just tap the animate button. PSA: now you can make your story text move 🤩Just tap the animate button 👆🏼 pic.twitter.com/uc4i0e02pD — Adam Mosseri 😷 [...]

Here is a cool new link-sharing tool called ClubLink that allows hosts to better promote their Clubhouse events by offering a more customized social media preview featuring a photo that includes the room name, who’s [...]

Shopify is bringing its checkout and payment processing system, Shop Pay, to Facebook and Instagram. The Shop Pay option will first be available to Instagram users on Tuesday and will roll out on Facebook Shops, [...]

EU lawmakers overseeing new digital regulation in Europe want to force Big Tech companies to pay for news, echoing a similar move in Australia and strengthening the hand of publishers against Google and Facebook. The [...]

Google Search now can show a countdown timer widget in the movie search results. If you search for some upcoming movies, such as [little nightmares 2] on mobile search, Google will give you a countdown [...]

To disable the prompt, just visit the mobile Reddit website like you usually would, and then tap the three-lines menu in the top right corner and select Settings. In there, you can turn on the [...]

According to a researcher, favicons can be a security vulnerability that could let websites track your movement and bypass VPNs, incognito browsing status, and other traditional methods of cloaking your movement online. “Supercookie uses favicons [...]

Looks like Google might be rolling out a feature to GMB that is auto-suggesting services from your website and adding them to GMB. You can edit/delete as necessary.

In October last year, Bakry and Mysk revealed that link previews in popular messaging apps can lead to security and privacy issues on iOS and Android. It was discovered that apps could leak IP addresses, [...]

Looks like Google is starting to surface Product Posts from GMB in Related to Your Search section in Location panels and in map packs for some listings with a special icon. Sample Query: Try searching [...]

Google was granted a patent Leveraging machine learning to predict user-generated content that tells us about using machine learning to better understand user-generated content about one or more entities.

Looks like most of the SERP position tackers are noticing a big change today, in SEMRush I can see a 7.8/10 volatility score in the US and a 6.5/10 volatility score in AU on 10th. [...]