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Hello from San Francisco, where the Google Performance Summit is taking place. This is Google’s annual event for key AdWords and Google Analytics customers, where new features, product plans, research and more are shared.

We already know that Google will show a live demo of the new AdWords interface. We certainly expect much more to come in the opening keynote, which begins at 9am PT. You can watch through the livestream:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW1LS94wLJw{/embed]

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I am receiving reports via email and I am seeing them in the forums, including WebmasterWorld that something changed with Google's search results where they are now showing more foreign results in their search results...

Six months ago, we reported that Google was working on letting you combine your Google Search Console properties into "sets." Well...

I get these weird obsessions sometimes—a thing that starts small in my head until it becomes all-consuming for weeks on end. Maybe you can relate? Anyway, my current obsession is centered around jazz, and how much we can learn from it about technology, how we listen to music, and yes, even design.

If you follow me on Twitter you’ll know that I just finished reading How to Listen to Jazz, a book I thoroughly enjoyed. I shared screen shots of some of my favorite sections from the book...

Just this week, Google brought a new filter to the Google Search Console's Search Analytics report for showing AMP results in the report. Well, it seems like two additional filters are coming to the Google Search Analytics report including featured snippets and rich result...

As you know, Google I/O is now, the keynote was yesterday and the theme to sum it up is around talking to Google and Google giving you the answers and completing the tasks you asked for...

Are you ready for Google assistant? Well, it’s not a device you can buy or an app you can purchase. Rather, it’s a platform unveiled today by Google CEO Sundar Pichai, a name given to putting Google’s smarts into anything. As Google puts it, the “next evolution” of Google Search. And yes, it’s Google assistant — lower-case “assistant” — not Google Assistant.

“It’s not enough to give them links. We really need to help them get things done in the real world. This is why we’re evolving...

The Google Search Console added a new section under the Search Appearance section named "Rich Cards." Rich Cards seem to be a section where Google will show you data about your rich snippets, schema, AMP...

After it leaking that Google was testing a new mobile friendly testing tool a couple weeks ago, today, Google officially announced the new tool.

The new tool is slicker, less frightening, then the original tool...