Weekly Update - March 2, 2019: Youtube Policy, Twosome For Web, Search Console

March has arrived along amongst tons of updates for YouTube, messaging, webmasters as well as businesses. it’s also fourth dimension to first of all proverb goodbye: Allo and which volition touching Google+ widgets as well as features on third political party sites. Plus the Google-wide notification bell volition also disappear. It's non going to hold upwards a happy week.

• If y'all are a developer who hasn’t yet removed all Google+ API features from your app or site, hold upwards certain to read the latest update which may “help mitigate the impact of the shutdown”.
• Casey Newton at the Verge took links as well as content that promote “fake engagement”. H5N1 publish of creators using Gleam (gleam.io) giveaways as well as sweepstakes to promote their channel had links removed from their video description as well as received a alert e-mail from YouTube. In a duo of weeks YouTube volition first of all issuing strikes for policy-violating links, as well as then directly is the fourth dimension to produce clean up!
• Following final week’s revelations of pedophiles networking through comments on videos of children, YouTube has provided additional information almost actions it is taking to protect children. More videos featuring children that are probable to attract predators volition cause got their comments disabled, as well as entirely a express publish of channels volition hold upwards able to re-enable them. YouTube volition operate amongst those channels to ensure in that location is sufficient comment moderation. They cause got also improved the automated systems that honor as well as withdraw predatory comments. Will this reassure brands that it’s prophylactic to buy ads again? Hopefully so. 
• While in that location is plenty of non-family-friendly content on YouTube, this week’s appall almost the set upwards “domain properties” inward Google Search Console to run across your domains every bit a whole, amongst information from http, https, www, as well as non-www versions of your site all together inward 1 report. This replaces Property Sets, which volition become away past times the destination of March.
• “All Medium paywalled stories are directly costless as well as unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter.”
• An update to ameliorate your productivity: you tin directly access the sidepanel amongst Google Calendar, Keep, as well as Task inward Google Drive. That side panel is directly available inward Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Sheets as well as Slides.
• G Suite Basic, Business as well as Enterprise, volition cause got can apply for the beta program. No discussion on when this mightiness hold upwards available to consumer user
• There’s a novel “designed for Google Fi” phone: the Motorola moto g7. There are some peachy deals on the moto g7, the older moto g6, LG G7, LG V35 as well as Pixel iii through Fi. If y'all desire to give Google Fi - Google’s cellular telephone service - a try, use my referral code as well as nosotros tin both larn a $20 credit (click here).

 Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips as well as updates for businesses, Plussers, Android users as well as more.

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Upcoming

• March: Allo shuts down
• March: Blogger switches accounts using a Google+ Profile to a Blogger profile
• Early March: Google Takeout updated as well as then Google+ Community Owners as well as Moderators tin download to a greater extent than community data:
• March 4: Google Voice removing telephone outcry upwards routing rules based on Google+ Circles
• March 4: Applications opened upwards for Local Guides Connect Live 2019
• March 7: Google+ APIs near down. Google+ sign-in volition halt working, Google+ widgets, buttons, as well as embedded posts volition halt displaying.
• March 7: Google+ comments on sites other than Blogger removed
• March 7: All G Suite Android users volition demand to update to the latest version of the Google+ Android app earlier March 7, 2019 to overstep away on using Google+ on mobile device.s
• March 7: Google navigation bar notification bell removed
• March 7: Google Partners Academy on Air: Drive to a greater extent than leads amongst Google Ads
• March 11: Call to activity overlays removed from videos, volition rest available on video ads only. Use cards or destination screens to add together a link to your website instead.
• March 12: Flickr deletion deadline extended to this date: whatever photos as well as videos over 1,000 on costless Flickr accounts volition hold upwards at opportunity for deletion.
• March 15: Picasa Web Albums Data API completely near down.

YouTube as well as Video Creation

• New Mobile Merch Carousel, Breaking News, as well as YTA Tip of the Week (Creator Insider)
• From YouTube: More updates on our actions related to the security of minors on YouTube (YouTube Creators)
• YouTube’s Response to the Momo Challenge & Character (YouTube)
• YouTube increases enforcement of "fake engagement" links policy (YouTube)

Go Live

• A novel alive streaming dashboard is rolling out on YouTube inward Studio Beta. (Ryan Wyatt)
• Celebrate Women’s History Month on Twitch (Twitch)
• Definition & Disambiguation - the demand for Schema inward your Website (Confluent Forms)

Bloggers as well as Webmasters

• Google announces domain-wide information inward Search Console (Google Webmasters)
• Google to kill off belongings sets inside Search Console (Search Engine Land)
• All Medium paywalled stories are directly costless as well as unmetered when you’re coming from Twitter. (Ev Williams)
• Insert a Table of Contents inward Google Sites (G Suite Updates)
• .dev domains are available to everyone (Google envisions websites for developers) (Google)

Hangouts as well as Messaging

• Google Duo is directly available on desktop (Justin Uberti)
• How to export your Allo messages, photos as well as other media
• Google – How Suite it Is (Talking Pointz interviews Scott Johnston)

Made past times Google, Android, Google Fi

• Shaping the time to come of mobile amongst Android: foldables, 5G, RCS, AR as well as more (Google)
• Building the Google Assistant on phones for everyone, everywhere (Google)
• Google Fi welcomes a novel telephone from Motorola (moto g7) (Google)
• G Suite quick access side panel inward Drive (G Suite Updates)
• Accessibility settings are directly easier to access on Docs, Sheets, as well as Slides (G Suite Updates)
• Chrome for Android Update (Chrome 72) (Chrome Releases)
• Chrome Stable Channel Update for Desktop (Chrome 72.0) (Chrome Releases)

Privacy as well as Security

• Google Play Protect inward 2018: New updates to maintain Android users secure (Android Developers)
• Android Is Helping Kill Passwords on a Billion Devices (WIRED)

More around the web

• Facebook, Twitter, as well as Google nonetheless aren’t doing plenty almost disinformation, European Union says (The Verge)
• Designing a planet-scale real-world AR platform (Niantic)
• The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel inward Elite Jobs (Joe Pinsker @ The Atlantic)
• China banned millions of people amongst pathetic social credit from shipping inward 2018 (The Verge)
• Google’s celebration of Black History Month (Google)
• New milestones inward helping preclude oculus illness amongst Verily (Google)