Google in the local pack is now expanding its “justifications” to show not just general justifications about the business and not just what is on the menu but highlights from the menu.

Some of China’s biggest technology companies, including ByteDance and Tencent, are testing a tool to bypass Apple’s new privacy rules and continue tracking iPhone users without their consent to serve them targeted mobile advertisements. The [...]

Google has added more examples for the max-snippet meta robots directive, and also specified for each tag what Google’s default behaviour is when the tags are omitted.

The Big Four all lean on the encyclopedia at no cost. With the launch of Wikimedia Enterprise, the volunteer project will change that. Wikipedia is seeking to rebalance its relationships with Google and other big [...]

A new style of a Business Profile on mobile search has emerged with a new layout and some interesting features. Some of the changes include ‘Years in business’ and ‘Serving location’ may appear below the [...]

Pinterest has just announced the expansion of their skin tone range feature to thirteen additional countries including France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia. Skin tone ranges is [...]

New regulations were approved under California’s Consumer Privacy Act on Monday that will prohibit the use of so-called dark patterns — tricks deployed by websites or apps that seek to frustrate or bamboozle users into doing things [...]

A vulnerability was discovered in WP Super Cache by Automattic. It’s a low severity vulnerability that could allow a hacker to upload and execute malicious code, usually with the intent to gain control of the [...]

Google has just launched a new handy tool to help people keep track of reviews they have reported to Google for removal.  If you visit this link it will bring you to a page where you can [...]

Facebook will soon begin testing partnerships with a small group of independent writers for its new publishing platform, sources tell Axios. The platform, which includes tools for journalists to build actual websites, in addition to newsletters, [..]

We recently saw Linkedin was looking into the ability for users to add Pronouns to profiles and it looks like Instagram might soon offer them as well. NOTE: The feature was likely discovered by reverse-engineering [...]

Google lets businesses that do not want to display their addresses (like home-based businesses) on Google Maps or Google Search the ability to label their business as “service level businesses.” But starting last Friday it [...]