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Google Ads Outages Impacting Majority Of Advertisers

Google just confirmed an issue with Google Ads that has been impacting advertisers all day. Advertisers are getting notices that read “Google Ads can’t complete your request right now. Please reload this page to try again.”
Here is a screenshot of the error advertisers are seeing in the Google Ads console:
Ginny Marvin, Google’s Ads Liaison, confirmed the issue on Twitter saying, “We are working to address an issue affecting a majority of Google Ads users. Please see the dashboard for updates https://ads.google.com/status/publisher/.”
The status site reads, “We expect to resolve the problem affecting a majority of users of Google Ads at Aug 3, 2023, 6:00 PM UTC. Please note that this time frame is an estimate and may change. The affected users are unable to access Google Ads.”
Here are some tweets with these complaints throughout the day:
One of those days for you, too? 🙃 #ppcchat pic.twitter.com/G79orisfiU
— Samara Hart (@pixsym) August 3, 2023
Is anyone else experiencing a sudden crash in their Google Ads? Is it just me or are they down for everyone? #GoogleAdsCrash pic.twitter.com/gdzeId4xmo
— ZAIN SHAH (@zainkarbalai) August 3, 2023
Google Ads has been crashing all morning.
Ugh. pic.twitter.com/Xi8qHCwa0g
— Joe Youngblood (@YoungbloodJoe) August 3, 2023
Can’t get away from this today. @adsliaison pic.twitter.com/K7PoP8wXNV
— Greg (@PPCGreg) August 3, 2023
Hopefully things will get better soon…
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Update: This is now fixed, Google updated the status site to say “The problem with Google Ads has been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support.”
This issue is now resolved. Apologies for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience.
— AdsLiaison (@adsliaison) August 3, 2023
SEARCHENGINES
Google Hanukkah Decorations Are Live For 2023

Hanukkah (aka Chanukah) starts this coming Thursday night, December 7th. Google has added its Hanukkah decorations to the Google Search results interface to celebrate. Google does this every year and I expect to see the same rollout in the coming weeks for Christmas and Kawanzaa but for now, since Chanukah is in the coming days, we have the Hanukkah decorations live at Google Search.
Here is a screenshot of the Chanukah decorations as they look like on the mobile search results.
You can see it yourself by searching on Google for [chanukah], [hanukkah], but not yet [חֲנוּכָּה] or other spelling variations yet but it should soon. It looks better on mobile than it does on desktop results.
To see the past, the 2023 decorations, 2021 decorations, 2020 Chanukah decorations, 2019 Google holiday decorations, the 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010 and so on.
Happy Chanukah, everyone!
Forum discussion at X.
SEARCHENGINES
Google Pay Accepted Icons In Google Search Results

Google seems to be testing a Google Pay Accepted label or icon in the Google search results. This label has the super G logo followed by the words “Pay accepted” words next to search result snippets that support Google Pay and notate such in their structured data.
This was first spotted by Khushal Bherwani who shared some screenshots of this on X – here is one:
Here are some more screenshots:
Here is test and without test window for same query. pic.twitter.com/n9cYWBOsro
— Khushal Bherwani (@b4k_khushal) October 20, 2023
Brodie Clark also posted some screenshots after on X:
In continuation from the test from October, Google is now testing out a new Google Pay label associated with organic results. Last month, Google was testing Pay Accepted text, with this month changing it to Pay encrypted checkout. More details: https://t.co/MvFNoPmMDR pic.twitter.com/WDVVc4RbTO
— SERPs Up 🌊 (@SERPalerts) November 30, 2023
I tried to replicate this but I came up short.
This is not the first time Google had similar icons like this in its search results.
Forum discussion at X.
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Google Discover Showing Older Content Since Follow Feature Arrived

Typically, Google Discover shows content that is less than a day old, but it can show content that is weeks, months, or even years old. However, typically, Google will show more recent content in the Discover feed. Well, that may have changed with the new Google follow feature.
Glenn Gabe, who is a very active Google Discover user, noticed that since the Follow feature rolled out, he has been seeing content that is weeks and months old way more often than before the follow feature rolled out. Glenn wrote on X that “this could also be playing a role. i.e. Google isn’t providing as much recent content, but instead, focusing on providing targeted content based on the topics you are following.”
It makes sense that if you follow a specific topic and if Google Discover only shows the most authoritative types of content, it might be hard for Google to find new content on that topic. So it does make sense that Google may show older content more often for that specific topic you follow.
Here are screenshots Glenn shared:
Have you noticed this in your Discover feed?
Forum discussion at X.
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