Google adds Store Visits data to AdWords distance & location reports ahead of Black Friday

The company also released a compilation of insights on Black Friday mobile and in-store shopping behaviors.

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Google Home bests Amazon Echo & Alexa, for answering questions

If you’ve always wanted someone around the house to answer all the questions you have during the course of your day, that someone is a something — Google Home.

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Google creates its own antitrust woes with poor communication over search listings

Have an issue with your listings in Google? Getting an official answer might be tough. And when that happens to a Google competitor, as it did with ProtonMail, it could come back to harm Google’s defense from antitrust charges.

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Google updates Penguin, says it now runs in real time within the core search algorithm

The latest announced release, Penguin 4.0, will also be the last, given its new real-time nature.

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AMP — Accelerated Mobile Pages — begin global rollout in Google mobile search results

Google reiterated that the move does not include a rankings change.

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Google testing mobile Shop the Look ads for apparel & home products

Looks are culled from partners including Polyvore and Curalate with related products featured in Shopping ads.

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Bing Ads Editor now supports custom ad copy for native ads on MSN.com

Bing’s latest version of its desktop editor tool, Bing Ads Editor 11.2, supports custom copy development for native ads. Instead of creating one ad to be served in search and native ad placements, advertisers can now create ads specific to native placements on MSN.com in bulk using the tool….

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After complaints, Google lets any publisher apply to have “Critic Reviews” of local businesses

Initially open to five publishers, Google opens the doors to anyone to apply after criticism by Yelp and TripAdvisor.

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YP brings search and location data together in “audience cartography”

The dominant use of location data in mobile display advertising has ironically become more about “who” over “where.”

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