Attention worthy Insider Week 20 news
The Week 20 news from owlpower.eu has some attention-worthy headlines for online business owners. Our Insider news is a weekly report that covers public news from a business perspective. We focus on the online segment and highlight how it is influenced by real-world events and governmental decisions. You can find the latest headlines on various topics, such as emerging strategies, social trends, and technology.
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Week 20 news:
- Google PUBLICLY EXPOSING your sales data. To opt-out, you must do the last decade dance: jump over hoops and one day realise it was all a lie! Read inspiration here: Google May Show How Many Shoppers Purchased On Your E-Commerce Site, By Barry Schwartz.
- Technically justifying why you cannot have privacy and how you liable FOREVER for a single sentence written somewhere. Read news here: Avoiding the soft delete anti-pattern, By Cultured Systems.
- Some mixed signals from consumer spending + software industry overall outlook uncertain + only a FEW tied to AI tailwinds seeing positive growth. Read news here: Software Weakness Across the Board, By Jamin Ball.
- Search results without Search Generative Experience (SGE) increase. This +160% month over month increase happen in mid-April! Read news here: Google Search results without SGE jump to 65%, up from 25%, By Danny Goodwin.
- Does your website still works in Chrome? Read news here: Google fixes fifth Chrome zero-day exploited in attacks this year, By Bill Toulas.
- Find a vulnerability that allows to track & access … sounds like business websites. Read news here: Hacking more than 130 000 car worldwide in 5 minutes, By Ahmad Mansour.
- The voices criticizing Google for killing small sites are shouting louder. Hardcore updates and the growing rift between SEOs, publishers and Google add kerosene to the fire. Read news here: David vs. Goliath, By Kevin Indig.
- I’m preaching this for years: solopreneurs, SMB, freelancers only fail WITH social media! Read Avi’s reality regarding here: “One of my goals for 2024 was to hit 100,000 followers…but not anymore, and I’m about to explain why.” I’m quitting my #1 goal for 2024, By Avi Gandhi.
- It’s time to bid farewell to old-school targeting and embrace the new gold standard: your first-party data. Read news here: What does the third-party cookie phase-out really mean?, By Lotame.
- ADS. ADS EVERYWHERE!! Its time has passed? Not if you watch streaming! :)). Read news here: Killing the Ad-Based Web, By James Joyner.
- Your ads budget practically justified your hosting bill. Social Media Traffic down by 50% in the last 12 months and the decline shows little sign of slowing. Read news here: Facebook and Google Are Both Sending Less Traffic to Publishers, By amediaoperator.com.
- Got Microsoft 365 and Gmail session cookies on your device? Bummer! Read news here: Unmasking Tycoon 2FA: A Stealthy Phishing Kit Used to Bypass Microsoft 365 and Google MFA, By Laura Hamel , Garrett Guinivan, and Chris Dawson.
- Predatory stock market not mentioned. Read news here: It’s an exploiter economy. Not a creator economy., By Joan Westenberg.
- There was a time when SEO was simple. Read news here: SEO • Did Google’s AI Just Kill the SEO Industry?, By Tod Maffin.
- The gig is up: advertisers woken up to the reality, that ads budget created spider clicks. Read news here: REDDIT • Sued for Not Providing Ad Click Detail, By Tod Maffin.
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