Google

    Sounds like the digital ad market is doing just fine

    Meta’s fourth-quarter ad sales jumped 24% from a year earlier to $38.7 billion, while Amazon’s booming ad unit rose 27% to $14.7 billion. Meanwhile Alphabet, still the market leader, saw its Google ad business rise 11% to $65.5 billion, boosted by 16% growth at YouTube.

    via CNBC


    Seemed like Google wanted to be a platform for everything you might need to do on the web. (Which meant more vectors for data collection to fuel the revenue generator: ads.)

    Now it is starting to replace Big G products with third-party integrations (Search cache, A/B testing).

    Is it now Microsoft?


    Google Search’s cache links are officially being retired

    Google claims it’s less necessary now that internet reliability has improved.

    Google is a cloud computing company. One with a robust PR department that likes to make everything a societal positive. One that needs to find profit, fast.

    How do you increase cloud capacity without increasing hardware costs? You delete a bunch of stuff taking up space. Like Search cache. Or Universal Analytics data (148 days until deletion).

    What will fill this space?

    I’m sure some will be whatever paying customers put there. It mostly, AI.


    If you want to glimpse the future of search, don’t look to Google.


    Asked: Test or beta?

    Answered: Google has now rolled out campaign level headlines and descriptions.

    You can now have the option to associate up to three headlines and two descriptions at the campaign level. “If you need to show these assets during a specific time period, such as a sale, you’ll be able to schedule specific start and end dates for them.

    Also:

    • Single headline responsive search ads
    • Changes to account-level automated assets

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