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How Google knows what we’re thinking: enhanced campaigns and session-based search

The way we search for things is changing. We don’t use keywords on their own anymore; we ask questions of Google in a more conversational way.

Google is getting better at understanding the context of what we’re looking for, and developments like Knowledge Graph and enhanced campaigns are a direct result of that contextual understanding. 

As a result, what advertisers do in AdWords is changing too. 

The new paid Google Shopping: pros and cons

We’re six weeks or so into the migration of retailers’ product listings on Google to the new Google Shopping.

Retailers now have to pay for Product Listing Ads (PLAs) to appear in Google’s Shopping section (they appear either on the right hand side of the page, or just below the ads, above the natural results).

As before, these ads are linked to the retailer’s product feed on its website.