Google Ads is currently having an outage for many of its reporting interfaces across Report Editor, Dashboards, and Saved Reports in the Google Ads web interface. Plus, The Products, Product Groups and Listing Groups pages are down across the web interface, API, and Google Ads Editor.

Google posted this update in the Google Ads status dashboard over here:

We’re actively looking into an issue with Google Ads. Report Editor, Dashboards, and Saved Reports in the Google Ads web interface are currently down. The Products, Product Groups and Listing Groups pages are down across the web interface, API, and Google Ads Editor. Thank you for your patience. We will provide an update as soon as we have more information.

It is dated today at 3:38 pm ET, but the issue may have started yesterday.

Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, wrote on X, “We’re actively looking into an issue with Google Ads.”

We’re actively looking into an issue with Google Ads. Report Editor, Dashboards, and Saved Reports in the Google Ads web interface are currently down. The Products, Product Groups and Listing Groups pages are down across the web interface, API, and Google Ads Editor. Thank you…

— AdsLiaison (@adsliaison) August 1, 2024

Mike Ryan posted about an issue yesterday on X with reporting, he wrote, “Anyone else having troubles with the Google Ads connector in Looker Studio? I think maybe they are working on it & broke it temporarily.”

Kirk Williams wrote on X, “I’m not crazy! ha, couldn’t figure out why some things were working and some weren’t. Thanks for the update!”

So if you are having issues, Google is working on it.

Although, Google has not posted a resolution time.

Forum discussion at X.

Update at 6:55 PM ET: Google is still working on it:

Report Editor, Dashboards, and Saved Reports in the Google Ads web interface are back online. Products, Product Groups and Listing Groups pages continue to be down across the web interface, API, and Google Ads Editor. Thank you for your continued patience. We will provide an…

— AdsLiaison (@adsliaison) August 1, 2024

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 Ads launched new PMax reporting and AI generation tools. Google responded to the claims that it was censoring President Trump. Google Ads has click-to WhatsApp message assets. Google has this new hidden gems store section. Plus, Microsoft Advertising and Bing Search ad revenue was up 19%.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

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  Google Ads Launches New PMax Reporting Updates & AI Generation Tools
  
  
  Google announced new Performance Max reporting updates and asset generation and image editing expansions. “We’re adding asset-level conversion reporting to Performance Max, expanding asset generation to App and Display campaigns, improving image editing and much more,” Google wrote.
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  Google Improved Autocomplete Predictions After Trump Criticism
  
  
  Over the past few days, Google has come under fire over its autocomplete predictions in Google Search around former President, Donald Trump. In the wake of the issue, Google updated its autocomplete prediction system to make improvements in these cases.
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  Google “Hidden Gem Stores” Search Feature
  
  
  Google seems to be testing a new search feature named “Hidden gem stores.” This shows you shopping and merchant listings from various stores and brands. This does not seem to be the Google hidden gems algorithm, but rather just a fancy title for a search feature box.
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  Microsoft Bing Advertising Revenue Up 19% (Back To Growth?)
  
  
  Microsoft reported its fourth quarter 2024 earnings and it showed that its search and advertising revenue was up 19%. The last time it was up over 19% in a quarter was 10 quarterly earning reports ago, in Q3 2022.
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  Google Ads Click-To WhatsApp Messages
  
  
  Google Ads lets you set up message assets to click-to WhatsApp for some advertisers. Message assets allow you to configure an ad asset or button with your responsive search ads in Google Ads, these can lead some users to WhatsApp.




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  Google Certified Innovator
  
  
  Google had an event for Google for Education named Google Certified Innovator at the Brazil office. There are numerous photos from the event, here is one from Instagram that I found but you can see a lot more on Instagram.

Other Great Search Threads:

• All impacted customers will be able to move to monthly invoicing with credit lines available based on their current credit risk, which should mitigate any cash flow concerns (whereas direct debit from a bank account is only, AdsLiaison on X
• P-Max Retention Goal Beta?, Anthony Higman on X
• We’re starting to roll out advanced Voice Mode to a small group of ChatGPT Plus users. Advanced Voice Mode offers more natural, real-time conversations, allows you to interrupt anytime, and senses and responds to your emotions., OpenAI on X
• You can’t make this up… Google recommends making your Shorts ads “blend in with the surrounding organic content” so people don’t swipe away. Because that’s not deceptive, right?, Glenn Gabe on X
• Client SEO Implementation Challenges, SEOFOMO Chat Forum
• On August 13th I’ll be interviewing @searchliaison. Let me know what questions you might have for him. That doesn’t mean I’ll ask all your questions and I won’t engage with folks who hurl invective and ad hominem attacks. Keep it civil, AJ Kohn on X

Search Engine Land Stories:

Other Great Search Stories:

Analytics

Industry & Business

Links & Content Marketing

Local & Maps

Mobile & Voice

SEO

PPC

Other Search

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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 Search Console has a bug with the search appearance filters, it should be fixed soon. Google is testing replacing the X/Twitter header in the search results with “latest posts from.” Google Ads has a new ad format named “for your consideration.” Google Ads has a new Merchant Center integration with AI images. Google said don’t make your m-dot URLs the canonical.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

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  Google Search Console Performance Report Search Appearance Filter Bug (To Be Fixed)
  
  
  Google Search Console has a bug with the Search Performance report, where if you want to filter by Search Appearance, it won’t show you all the options. Google is aware of the bug and it should be fixed soon.
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  Google: Don’t Make Your M-Dot URLs The Canonical
  
  
  Google’s John Mueller repeated advice from a while ago that you should not switch your m-dot URLs to be the canonical URL, even though Google is fully switched over to mobile-first indexing. He said this is just because it is how it is done, how it was done, and switching it on Google’s end would cause many large sites issues.
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  Google May Replace X (Twitter) With Latest Posts From
  
  
  Google Search may be replacing the heading for “X (Twitter)” posts with “Latest Posts from.” This would be a step to removing more X branding from the Google Search results page.




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  New Google Ads Format “For Your Consideration”
  
  
  Google may be testing a new search ad format named “for your consideration.” These ads, at least in the example below, show hotel websites that you can go to to find hotels in the area. This may work for other categories of queries, outside of hotels, but this is the example I see right now.
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  New Google Ads Google Merchant Center Feed Integration In AI Image Editor
  
  
  Google has a new Google Ads feature within Google Merchant Center feeds in AI image editor that enables you to import product images from your Merchant Center feeds into your Google Ads account. The images will then be stored and available for use in the Google Ads Asset Library. “You can leverage product images to generate new campaign images using AI-powered image editing in Google Ads,” Google added.




• 
  Waymo Car On Display At Google
  
  
  Google has a Waymo car on display at its Google headquarters in Mountain View, California – the GooglePlex. Waymo is Google’s self-driving car project and I guess they wanted to put this on display at the office there.

Other Great Search Threads:

Search Engine Land Stories:

Other Great Search Stories:

Analytics

Industry & Business

Links & Content Marketing

Local & Maps

Mobile & Voice

SEO

PPC

Search Features

Other Search

Feedback:

Have feedback on this daily recap; let me know on Twitter @rustybrick or @seroundtable, on Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky and you can follow us on Facebook and on Google News and make sure to subscribe to the YouTube channel, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or just contact us the old fashion way.