Publisher Insider #65: How Dependent Are You On Google? ??
Has your website traffic decreased? Blame Google for it. Google recently confirmed an issue with indexing content from news publishers and surfacing it on Google News. The Google Search Status Dashboard shows that the search giant is investigating a service disruption.?
Here’s SERP volatility for the news category in the past 30 days-
Things don't look good. Google however has implemented a fix for the indexing issue and is monitoring the results. Know more about the?Google News Indexing Disruption?here.?
Food for thought - Are you still heavily dependent on Google to get you traffic? What do you do when they are down??
On Other News
It is alleged that Google is illegally using copyrighted content! What’s more, it is also stealing personal information to train its AI products.
You will now hear answers from Google Bard. It can also respond to prompts that also include images.??
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