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Google last month announced the expansion of identity verification to all advertisers. Identity verification was until now only for political advertisers. Identity verification was introduced in 2018.

Google this week said it has blocked and removed 2.7 billion bad ads in 2019.

Google this month adopted the SpecialAnnouncement markup, a way that websites can use to highlight COVID-19 announcements on search results.

Google today announced that is introducing free listings on the search results on the Google Shopping tab. Free listings will appear in the U.S. before the end of April.

Searchmetrics this week appointed Ken Ogenbratt as new CFO. Ken Ogenbratt has promoted from his role as VP Finance, and he replaces the outgoing CFO Dirk Wolf, who left in March 2020.

Bing this month released specs that enable publishers to have control over the snippets that are shown on Bing search result pages.

eMarketer today forecasted a decline between 8.7% and 14.8% in search advertising spending, in H1 2020.

Google this month announced it has increased the capacity of the Report Editor, from 10 accounts to 200 accounts.