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Google this week announced the integration of Zapier in Google Ads. Jon Diorio, Director of Product Management at Google Ads, wrote that Google and Zapier collaborated to develop a Google Ads integration. Zapier is a workflow automation tool connecting over 1500 apps.

Botify this month announced that is participating in Bing’s new content submission API pilot. According to Botify, FastIndex has a new API integration with Bing that notifies the search engine of the content in real time, and lets webmasters surpass the 10,000 URL limit set through the Bing API.

Google last month launched a new Publisher Center. Google merged Google News Producer, and Google News Publisher Center into Publisher Center.

Google Ads stop providing support on Twitter and on Facebook, starting on January 1, this year. Google says users can get support via a form for all Google Ads account-related questions.

Google last month announced that message extensions will be sunset in AdWords and Google Ads APIs and Google Ads scripts. The sunset date is January 27, 2020.

Bing this month announced that is adopting the new Microsoft Edge, as the engine to run JavaScript and render web pages, using then this data on Bing Search.

The Autorité de la Concurrence, the French competition watchdog, this month fined Google for abuse of dominant position in the search advertising market.

Google last week announced that it has updated the call-only ads unit layout. In the new layout, the business name and headline will show directly below the phone number, along with a larger phone icon.