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🔍 Google + Fitbit

Nov 04, 2019

Good morning search marketers, Google's hoping to step up its wearables game.

Its parent Alphabet announced it will buy Fitbit, which could help it compete more soundly with Apple Watch in the wearables realm. It will also give the Google Assistant a bigger platform as it is integrated in new Fitbit devices.

"Google Assistant is becoming the focus of the Google cross-platform user experience and with it the conversational UI," reported Search Engine Land's Greg Sterling. "BERT's importance thus comes into sharper relief as a key technology/tool for understanding more and more spoken commands and queries."

Merchants, take note: A fairly big change to the way Google approaches unique product identifiers (GTINs, MPNs, for example) could affect your product visibility this holiday season. The biggest of these changes is that products without UPIs can actually be eligible to show in Shopping ads now. The hitch: they'll be served at a lower priority than your competitors if they have accurate UPIs filled in in their feeds.

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Ginny Marvin
Editor-In-Chief

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Mobile First Indexing. Google's John Mueller said mobile-first indexing isn't aimed at changing a sites ranking. It is about indexing only.

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