There is some speculation, and for good reason, that Google is showing more short videos over showing web stories in Google mobile search. Glenn Gabe and Brodie Clark both noticed this trend and the two of them follow web stories closer than almost anyone else I know.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. If you use Google Ads Scripts, the Google Ads or AdWords API…

Google announced a bunch of new travel search features the other day across flights, hotels, destinations of interest and more. These new features aim at helping you “get inspired and research your options so you can book with ease when the time is right,” Google wrote.

Google has confirmed that between April 25th 5:32PM ET and April 26th 3:24 PM ET there was a data reporting issue with those who pulled in data from the Google Ads and AdWords API or Google Ads Scripts.

Microsoft Advertising posted its May 2022 update showing what is new and changing with the ad network. What is new is that the deadline for Responsive Search Ads was extended, auto-generated remarketing lists, you can manage images for your Audience Ads within the Editor tool, DSAs expanded and more.

As you know, last week, on April 26th, Google disabled the URL parameter tool within Google Search Console and stopped respecting any of the rules added to that tool. Some are asking if the recent crawl spikes they saw with Googlebot was related to this change.

Google is continuing its mobile search user interfaces with more variations of its grid search results format and full width video search result snippets.

Google Ads has rolled out the new create ad interface to all advertisers, the search company confirmed. This is a very subtle change in terms of the interface, there are no real new features – but the look is slightly different.

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google seems to now be offering SEO certification…

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Microsoft has relaunched a revised Microsoft Advertising certification program and learning lab, the company announced. Microsoft said this was done based on the feedback from the industry, they “have updated our offerings to make them both more valuable and easier to use.”

Google is testing infinite or continuous scroll on the desktop search results again. As a reminder, Google launched continuous scroll for mobile search last October. Google has also tested infinite scroll on desktop search for many many many years.

Fabrice Canel posted an SEO best practices post for sites that use subscription-based and paywall content. While Google has something called flexible sampling, previously a first click free program – Microsoft Bing does not.

Historically Google has said they won’t be offering any SEO certification like they do for Google Ads, Google Analytics, and a whole slew of certification they offer. But that seems to have changed when Google announced the new Google Career Certificate scholarships for U.S. businesses.

For the past week, I have been seeing a different pattern with a possible Google search ranking algorithm update. The forums and SEO discussion around a possible Google update was brewing a good part of last week but the automated tracking tools, most of them, didn’t really pick up signs of a Google update.