#adsense-payments

#adsense-payments

Regulators are paying more attention to data privacy because their constituents consider it a 'kitchen table' issue, highlighting its importance in everyday life.

Grokipedia might be dropping more with the March 2026 broad core update. The decline seems to be continuing with the latest broad core update.

In this test, there is a huge section of sponsored products in a double-rowed carousel along with some cards from individual websites (organic).

Google Search referrals to publishers fell about 34% year over year, with Google Discover clicks down 15% in the same period. The impact is uneven across the industry. Small publishers saw search traffic drop by about 60%, mid‑sized outlets by about 47%, and large sites by 22%.

Experiments are a great feature of the Ads platform. For example, you can run a bid strategy experiment wherein the "control" bids toward a cost-per-lead target (CPL) and the "treatment" toward return-on-ad-sales (ROAS). The ability to run Performance Max experiments is new and very helpful. There are three types. Advertisers can test a control setting against: Another campaign type (Shopping, Search, or Display),

Martin Splitt and Gary Illyes from the Google Search team spoke about how browsers parse HTML.

Campaign Mix Experiments allows you to select existing campaigns and assign them to different experiment arms (up to 5 total). This approach offers flexibility in testing various scenarios, including: Account structure testing: Evaluate which campaign combinations are ideal for your business objectives. Campaign consolidation: Test the impact of consolidating multiple campaigns into a single campaign.