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Facebook’s answer to Substack could be out by the end of June

Facebook started as a way to rate the attractiveness of female Harvard students. It eventually morphed into a way to post vacation photos, alienate friends and family with political views, shop for furniture, and even find love. Not content to merely worm its way into every other part of our lives, it looks like Facebook’s…

Moz acquired by iContact, subsidiary of J2 Global

SEO tool provider Moz has been acquired by iContact Marketing Corp, a subsidiary of the publicly traded company, J2 Global. Sarah Bird, Moz’s CEO, posted the announcement on the Moz blog Friday afternoon. “Exciting news, Moz fans! We are thrilled to announce that Moz has been acquired by iContact Marketing Corp!” Bird wrote. iContact was…

Google announces its own version of App Tracking Transparency

In an email sent to Android app developers on Wednesday, Google announced that it will enable users to opt out of sharing their Advertiser ID (the unique device identifier that enables marketers to track users as they move between apps), the Financial Times reported Thursday. The announcement comes less than six weeks after Apple rolled…

Google Search Console regex filter adds negative matching option

In April, Google added regular expression filtering support to some of the Search Console reports. The issue was, it only let you filter on positive matches, not exclude negative matches. Today, Google announced you can now perform negative matches using regular expressions (regex) in the performance report in Google Search Console. The announcement. Google said…

Google publishes Google News transparency policy for publishers

Google has published more details on its transparency policies around Google News for publishers. This has come a few months after Google quietly published new manual actions for Google News and Google Discover content policies. Google said it “considers what types of information an ordinary person might find helpful if they want to assess a…