Like so much of music today, these ancient songs praise the Gods, invoke supernatural forces, deify those in power. The oldest surviving piece of recorded music is a hymn to the Mesopotamian goddess of fertility Nikkal, written in cuneiform on a clay tablet dating to about 1400 BCE.Īcross Ancient Egypt, India, China, Greece and Mesopotamia, songs that served important ceremonial functions survived in similar fashion, preserved on clay tablets, papyrus, and eventually paper. Every two weeks, we compile a list of updates to help advertisers, the SEO community, and regular users of search to stay current with what is going on within the Google ecosystem.The earliest efforts to explain music’s power were tied up in overlapping ideas of religion and magic. Sure enough, the last couple of weeks have been quite productive with fresh updates from the search engine. Of the more notable changes is the introduction of CallJoy, designed to help small business automate support processes, and updates to Display & Video 360, Smart Bidding signals, and productivity tools.
Yet another newsworthy item is that Google is now showing other search engine results in its European local SERPs, prompting users to try out alternative engines for local queries - a move that could save the search engine giant billions in potential antitrust lawsuits.īefore we review the updates, we want to remind you to tune in to our Marketing Scoop podcast. GOOGLE SEARCH NEWS New Mobile Layout for Custom Search We have invited Luis Rodriguez, the Web & SEO Lead LATAM at Uber, and Kelsey Jones, the Founder at Six Stories, to join us and shed some light on all the latest news and updates from Google. Google has announced a new layout for mobile searches. It comes with a new look for the search box and refinements (which has also been updated on desktop). They also simplified pagination and increased the size of thumbnail images. The search engine expects that these changes will help provide "an improved experience for mobile device users." Users who want to optionally disable the mobile-specific changes can do so by setting the "mobileLayout" attribute of the search element to “disabled”. Source: Improving our mobile layout European Google Local SERPs: ‘Find Results on Other Sites’ PromptĪs part of the ongoing effort to comply with the European Commission's antitrust decision in shopping search, Google appears to be prompting users in Germany to try out alternative directories for local queries. As can be seen in the snapshot below, the prompt says “ergebnisse finden auf” (find results on). It should be noted that these prompts don't concern shopping search but local results. The timing makes sense as the EC is in the process of considering new action against Google in the local search. Source: New European Google local SERPs prompt users to ‘find results on’ other sites Will You Pay for Google My Business? Google has appealed each of the antitrust penalties levied by the European Commission (amounting to billions of dollars), but in the meantime, it is also obliged to comply with their decisions. Google appears to be sending out surveys to find out if users would be interested in paying for access to premium GMB features. Sean Butcher has alerted the community to the survey on Twitter (with the survey link in the comment section).
The survey was active for a while, but Google seems to have closed it now as the page says: " Thank you for your interest! This survey is now closed, but we look forward to hearing your feedback in the future." This may be an indication that Google may charge a monthly/yearly fee for premium features in Google My Business in the near future.
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