Google’s Gary Illyes answered a question about the non-search features that the GoogleOther crawler supports, then added a caution about the consequences of blocking GoogleOther. What...
Meta Platforms Inc. started its process of ending news availability in Canada over a law requiring digital platforms to pay local news outlets. The California-based company...
I blocked two of our ranking pages using robots.txt. We lost a position here or there and all of the featured snippets for the pages. I...
Major search and social platforms are playing hardball in response to Canada’s Online News Act. In a show of force, Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company,...
Up to 1.2 million Canadians are to have their ability to view or share news on Facebook blocked this month in tests of its response to...
Google’s John Mueller was asked if Google Search would be impacted if you block other crawlers, like Bing or the ChatGPT crawler. John said no, “Google...
Google has been testing blocking news in Google Search on about 4% of Canadian users. Google said, “We’re briefly testing potential product responses to Bill C-18...
Google has started temporarily restricting news results for approximately four percent of randomly selected Canadian users in tests that will last five weeks. The decision directly...
Gary Illyes from Google posted a new PSA on LinkedIn saying that the most common reason a site unexpectedly blocks Googlebot from crawling is due to...
Google AdSense has announced support for personalization with first-party cookies and also new improvements to the blocking controls navigation. First-Party Cookies For Personalization Google AdSense now...
