Google Ads API v24: cart data sales view, lead gen conversions, retail filters
Google Ads API v24 adds CartDataSalesView, nine lead gen conversion types, tag-based retail filters, and VTC optimization for Demand Gen and App campaigns.
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The latest news about search ads. Search ads, also known as paid search advertising or pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, are a type of online advertising that appears in search engine results pages (SERPs). When a user searches for a keyword or phrase, search ads are displayed at the top and bottom of the SERP.
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Google Maps now shows removed review counts in Germany
Google Maps displays defamation removal notices on German business profiles, showing how many reviews were removed in the past year under German defamation law.
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Google traffic winners in 2026: 5 data-backed traits that set them apart
Cyrus Shepard analyzed 400+ sites to find 5 features that predict whether a website gains or loses Google traffic in 2026, from products to proprietary assets.
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Google Ads now uses AI to qualify phone call leads
Google Ads replaces call duration metrics with AI-qualified conversions, filtering spam calls and feeding cleaner signals into Smart Bidding for US and Canada.
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Google Search Console quota blocks expert behind 1,192 technical audits
Mountain Weekly News CEO hits a 5-request daily cap in Google Search Console while manually updating 24 years of safety-critical outdoor gear technical audits.
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Safari is quietly killing your GCLID - and here is the fix
Safari strips Google Click Identifiers in up to 20% of sessions. A GTM template by Luc Nugteren restores attribution via backup URL parameter and _gcl_aw cookie.
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Google's search chief reveals the real shape of AI Mode, Maps and agents
Nick Fox, Google SVP for Search and Maps, explains query fan-out, agentic restaurant booking, personal intelligence, and why ads stay labeled in AI search.
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Google Business Profile is now a data layer that feeds AI, Maps and Search
Google's April 2026 GBP updates - recurring posts, review moderation, Ask Maps AI - reveal how business profiles now feed search rankings and Gemini results.
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Google's Liz Reid on who will own search as AI rewires how people query
Google's head of search Liz Reid explains AI Overviews, longer queries, ad monetization, and the future of search in a Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast interview.
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Google Ads IP exclusions can be gamed. A two-IP bypass nobody blocked
A Madrid-based PPC agency proved in March 2026 that Google Ads IP exclusions can be bypassed using a two-IP harvesting technique, leaving advertisers exposed.
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Google reverses spam report policy: no PII submissions processed
Google now blocks spam report submissions that contain personally identifying information, reversing course after community backlash over its disclosure policy.
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Google Trends Gemini Explore page lands on mobile web
Google has brought its Gemini-powered Trends Explore page to mobile web, giving journalists and marketers real-time AI-assisted search trend research anywhere.
