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In 2023, Google will rake in $57 billion from search. Their dominance in the market has left marketers heavily dependent on Google's platform even as prices rise, making it both necessary for success online... and a massive headache. This week, Elena and Rob are joined by Director of Analytics Jordan Rossler to discuss how marketers can improve the effectiveness of their SEM investment—while reducing their dependence on Google. Because no brand that wants to compete online can fully avoid Google. But they can level the playing field. Topics covered: [01:20] Recapping Google's antitrust trial[03:00] Marketing Architects' history with Google in radio[05:00] The FTC's case against Amazon[08:00] Why is search so important for marketers?[13:30] How branded keywords save money[18:30] How unique calls-to-action in TV affect searchTo learn more, visit marketingarchitects.com/podcast. Resources: 2023 ABC News Article: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/amazon-antitrust-lawsuit-long-arduous-journey-ftc-1038621492023 Reuters Article: https://www.reuters.com/technology/five-things-know-about-google-antitrust-trial-it-hits-halfway-mark-2023-10-12/Get more research-backed marketing strategies by subscribing to The Marketing Architects on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Apple, Google Tax: How should early-stage Indian startups navigate all this. With Deepak Abbot on India's App Ecosystem. This is Part 2 of the AMA with Ashish Sinha.

This newsletter is really a weekly public policy thought-letter. While excellent newsletters on specific themes within public policy already exist, this thought-letter is about frameworks, mental models, and key ideas that will hopefully help you think about any public policy problem in imaginative ways. It seeks to answer just one question: how do I think about a particular public policy problem/solution?PS: If you enjoy listening instead of reading, we have this edition available as an audio narration courtesy the good folks at Ad-Auris. If you have any feedback, please send it to us.India Policy Watch: Thinking About Digital ColonialismInsights on burning policy issues in India— RSJThe unbridled power of large digital platforms is back in focus. Last week Google India announced all apps within Play Store must use its billing system that charges a 30 per cent commission on all transactions. The Indian start-up community that has been angling for raising barriers for global platforms to access domestic market lost no time in pushing back against the ‘Google Tax’. That seems to have worked. Google has postponed this move to April 2022. Google (and Apple) claim this commission is the compensation for their efforts at keeping their stores safe and secure.Meanwhile, the US Congressional investigation into the power of Big Tech (Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google) concluded last week with a voluminous 450-page report. The report indicts them in no uncertain terms:"These firms have too much power, and that power must be reined in and subject to appropriate oversight and enforcement. Our economy and democracy are at stake.”The recommendations (pg 378 onward) to rein in these companies and restore competition in the digital economy however cover familiar grounds – structural separation of lines of business, curbs on acquisitions, allowing interoperability and open access, checking abuse of bargaining powers and strengthening antitrust laws and enforcement. You could almost use the same recommendations a century ago when looking to control railroad or oil monopolies. Surely, these will be useful (if they eventually translate into laws) to bring a semblance of control over Big Tech. But will they be enough?I don’t think so.The traditional way of looking at monopolies is to understand the factors that lead to their creation and the abuse they inflict or the harm they do to the customers and the society. The sources of monopoly power usually are technology, control of natural resources, access to capital or lack of alternatives in the market. This power is then abused by the monopolist. The most common abuse is that of being a price maker that maximises profits. The usual antitrust laws attack both the source and the abuse of monopoly power.But there’s a problem in regulating Big Tech with these antitrust laws: the source of their monopoly power and the harm they do to societies is orthogonal to how the traditional monopolies operated.Given this, how should we think about regulating them? We can begin by analysing the dominance of these players in the digital economy using the traditional monopoly framework and then going beyond it.I will elaborate on this next.Digital monopolies are unavoidable: There’s no single source of monopoly power for them. Its an alchemy of network effect, bundling of services, a bottomless pit of capital and high exit barriers that create a lock-in for customers. This makes it a winner-takes-all market. Infusing competitive intensity by breaking up these firms on lines of business or creating a ‘local’ alternative won’t work because these Big Tech ‘babies’ will soon turn into a monopoly.Two-sided platforms: Most big tech firms have been successful in creating two-sided platforms of buyers and sellers. Sometimes this is apparent to the end customer (for instance, Uber) but often this isn’t (Google or Facebook). In these two-sided platforms, the tech firms tend to be monopolies (dominant seller) on one side and monopsonies (dominant buyer) on the other. So, Google has a near-monopoly on search that it provides for free. On the other hand, for any company wanting to advertise on digital platforms, Google is the dominant buyer. It actually auctions keywords. This two-sided dominance is different from the monopolies of the past.There’s no ‘one’ business: In the earlier era, the dominance of a monopoly could be easily understood because of the distinct nature of their business. A railroad company was just in that business. So was a telecom company. But it’s difficult to categorise the big tech players into a single type of business. Amazon can position itself as a tech company to investors, an e-commerce platform to sellers and a retailer to regulators. Facebook is a social media platform whose business isn’t easy to define. Maybe it is a publisher or a media company, but it isn’t structured like one. Maybe it’s a community that brings the world closer (ha!). What’s worse the companies themselves don’t know where they will end up in future. Facebook has long wanted to start a digital currency and become a financial services company. Amazon has become the largest cloud service provider plus an on-demand entertainment platform while Google has its moonshots including wanting to be an autonomous car company. Which business of these companies do you regulate?Asymmetry of power and knowledge: In a traditional monopoly situation, the customers sense the harm in the form of exploitative prices or a lack of voice in making their grievances heard. This is almost absent here. On any traditional yardstick of customer satisfaction – loyalty, retention or advocacy – these platforms score high. The pervasive nature of these platforms is such even a few minutes of outage creates widespread anxiety. Most customers have no sense of their exploitation despite the platforms knowing and using almost everything about the customer. This is the definition of absolute asymmetry where one side doesn’t even know there’s asymmetry.Data appropriation: The ‘natural resources’ over which these platforms have a monopoly are our attention and the data that flows from the rhythms of our daily lives. The attention and data are then transmuted into factors of production and monetised in many different ways. All of this is done through our consent. Life is too short to read the terms and conditions while signing up to these platforms. The unanticipated consequences of handing over these ‘natural resources’ are difficult to fathom for most people. From nudging you to buy something you didn’t need, to flooding your timelines with propaganda that’s aimed at you – the algorithms control your behaviour. This monopoly power is difficult to dimension. Even the platforms often don’t understand it. The frequent defence that Facebook puts up in various senate hearings attests to this. They don’t know how to control what’s coming up in your timelines. The program knows your ‘persona’ and it does what it has to do.Geographic boundaries: The nature of the digital economy is such that these monopolies don’t have geographic boundaries. The seamless nature of the platform and its monopoly on attention and data as resources ensure they can extend their monopoly anywhere in the world. How do you regulate a global monopoly? Do you take a nationalistic agenda and stop them at your boundaries? That will only mean setting up domestic monopolies. Who do you trust more? A global monopoly that adheres to the best corporate governance norms or a domestic monopoly in countries with weak institutions or that lack democratic accountability?Loss of freedom and the end of thought: The data and attention appropriation done through these platforms constrain our choices: we live in echo chamber of our opinions, we buy things that are suggested to us and we see a version of reality that’s tailor-made for us and that no one else is seeing. Often the term ‘digital colonialism’ is bandied about when talking about Big Tech. This lack of freedom to be oneself, discover things on our own and not be dispossessed of our right to choose is what colonialism is about. That we have done this voluntarily and for convenience and value that’s quite apparent is what makes this difficult to legislate.A new form of capitalism: One way to manage this kind of monopoly is to let things play out. To let evolution take care of this. There will be a period of monopolies reigning across sectors. Soon there will be overlapping of interests and territories among them. It is attention and data that are being monopolised and beyond a point, they are finite too. They will fight among themselves, get bruised and breakup in the process. Also, there will always be newer opportunities that will attract smaller, nimbler firms that will beat these incumbents. This has happened throughout history and there’s no reason to believe this time is unique. A new form of capitalism will evolve after a period of digital colonialism. It won’t be better or worse. It will just be different.What’s resistance then?It is not easy to legislate the resistance to these monopolies. The policymakers are using the tried and tested tools to counter them. They will yield some benefits in the short-term. But they will be largely ineffective for the reasons we have mentioned above. The other options like moral pressure to delete an app or the self-control to stay away from these players can’t scale up. Such measures also don’t consider the huge benefits these platforms deliver to us. The truth is technology will remain a step ahead of us. The idea that we can tame it is also a non-starter.There are proponents of ethical algorithms who believe a societal code or a legislative norm for how algorithms are to be used is the way ahead. There are others who believe handing over control or making users aware of how their data is being used and compensating them for it. This will make it a fair bargain. Maybe it will. These are early days of policymaking in this area. There’s a need for deeper philosophical and sociological work in this space that will enable our thinking in how to legislate this. Until then we think the house report is a good place to get things started.A Framework a Week: What Makes an Asset Strategic?Tools for thinking public policy— Pranay KotasthaneFrom AI to semiconductor chips and from data to rare earth metals, a whole lot of assets are labelled as being strategic by many governments and analysts. And yet, there’s no conceptual clarity as to what the term strategic means.Most often, it is narrowly used to describe assets that are critical for the military. In this definition, only goods that can be used for war or to threaten war qualify as strategic, an obvious example being nuclear technology.By another definition, assets that are critical for the economy or military and have no other easily available substitutes, qualify as strategic. For example, oil becomes a strategic asset for India using this definition.So what really is strategic then? I was lucky to stumble upon a framework which tackles this fundamental question. Jeffery Ding and Alan Dafoe in their paper The Logic of Strategic Assets: From Oil to AI theorise that:Strategic Level of Asset = Importance * Externality * NationalizationThe strategic level of an asset is a product of the following three factors:Importance: an asset’s economic and/or military utility (some sectors, e.g. freight transport, contribute more to economic growth than others, e.g. high-end fashion).Externality: the economic and/or security externalities associated with an asset, such that uncoordinated firms and individual military organizations will not optimally attend to the asset. (e.g. the positive externalities generated by research into foundational technologies, which private actors under-invest in because they do not capture all the gains from spillovers).Nationalization: the degree to which these externalities differentially accrue to the nation and one’s allies, and not to rivals (e.g. fundamental research in medicine has positive externalities, but they may easily diffuse to other rival nations, which limits an asset’s strategic level).What’s interesting here is that the authors apply the economic concept of externality to a question in the national security domain. They contend that some assets and technologies demonstrate the characteristics of an externality-like market failure. This means that uncoordinated firms and individual military organisations underproduce these strategic assets and hence the attention of the State is required.These externalities are distilled into three forms:“Cumulative-strategic logic involves assets and sectors with high barriers to entry linked to cumulative processes, such as first-mover dynamics, incumbency advantages, and economies of scale. These high barriers to entry lead the market to under-invest, and military organizations to require explicit state support to achieve nationally optimal investments. Aircraft engines [1945-present] serve as a representative example, as high research and development costs associated with these complex technical systems make it so that only a handful of firms can compete.Infrastructure-strategic logic involves assets that generate positive spillovers across the national economy or military system, which sub-national actors (e.g. firms or militarybranches) under-invest in because they do not appropriate all the associated gains. These are often central technologies that complement and upgrade the national technological system. A representative example is railroads [1840-1860].Dependency-strategic logic involves assets whose supply is concentrated in a limited number of suppliers. Due to the lack of substitutes, these assets are often vulnerable to supply disruptions… Individual firms do not fully internalize the downside of a cut-off for the nation’s economy or military, for which continued access to these dependency-strategic assets is at risk due to the lack of substitute goods and alternative suppliers. Nitrates [1914-1918] are a representative example, as the British naval blockade prevented Germany from importing nitrates from Chile, the world’s principal supplier.”These three logics are not mutually exclusive. The authors argue that states should pay especially close attention to those technologies and goods that exhibit multiple strategic logics. The figure below illustrates the overlap:(Source: Jeffery Ding and Alan Dafoe, The Logic of Strategic Assets: From Oil to AI)This framework is a really useful tool for prioritising strategic assets. Using this framework, which assets qualify as being strategic for India, you reckon?Poetry In Public Policy: Louise Gluck—RSJLousie Gluck has won the Nobel Prize for Literature (2020) for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”.“She writes oneiric, narrative poetry recalling memories and travels, only to hesitate and pause for new insights. The world is disenthralled, only to become magically present once again.”Gluck possesses a direct, natural style that shines a light on our imperfections with a detached clarity. But that doesn’t take away from the beautiful, lyrical compositions that stay with us for long. She is one of the originals.Nostos by Louise GlückThere was an apple tree in the yard --this would have beenforty years ago -- behind,only meadows. Driftsof crocus in the damp grass.I stood at that window:late April. Springflowers in the neighbor's yard.How many times, really, did the treeflower on my birthday,the exact day, notbefore, not after? Substitutionof the immutablefor the shifting, the evolving.Substitution of the imagefor relentless earth. Whatdo I know of this place,the role of the tree for decadestaken by a bonsai, voicesrising from the tennis courts --Fields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut.As one expects of a lyric poet.We look at the world once, in childhood.The rest is memory.Parable of Hostages by Louise GlückThe Greeks are sitting on the beachwondering what to do when the war ends. No onewants to go home, backto that bony island; everyone wants a little moreof what there is in Troy, morelife on the edge, that sense of every day as beingpacked with surprises. But how to explain thisto the ones at home to whomfighting a war is a plausibleexcuse for absence, whereasexploring one’s capacity for diversionis not. Well, this can be facedlater; theseare men of action, ready to leaveinsight to the women and children.Thinking things over in the hot sun, pleasedby a new strength in their forearms, which seemmore golden than they did at home, somebegin to miss their families a little,to miss their wives, to want to seeif the war has aged them. And a few growslightly uneasy: what if waris just a male version of dressing up,a game devised to avoidprofound spiritual questions? Ah,but it wasn’t only the war. The world had beguncalling them, an opera beginning with the war’sloud chords and ending with the floating aria of the sirens.There on the beach, discussing the varioustimetables for getting home, no one believedit could take ten years to get back to Ithaca;no one foresaw that decade of insoluble dilemmas—oh unanswerableaffliction of the human heart: how to dividethe world’s beauty into acceptableand unacceptable loves! On the shores of Troy,how could the Greeks knowthey were hostages already: who oncedelays the journey isalready enthralled; how could they knowthat of their small numbersome would be held forever by the dreams of pleasure,some by sleep, some by music?Matsyanyaaya: Narratives about China’s Pandemic ResponseBig fish eating small fish = Foreign Policy in action— Pranay KotasthaneNarrative 1: The Chinese party-state, which covered up the COVID-19 outbreak in the initial stages, is the world’s number 1 enemy.Narrative 2: After the initial shock, China has been remarkably successful in containing the outbreak, like a phoenix rising from the ashes.Floating around are these two distinct narratives about China's COVID-19 response. On the surface, these two narratives appear to conflict with each other. Scratch the surface and you’ll find that both narratives are actually in harmony with each other.Quite a few opinion pieces perceive these two narratives as being in conflict. Such articles explain, with awe, that even though China bungled up initially, it was able to get back on its feet quickly, curb the rise in infections, and take the lead in vaccine research. How does one explain this apparent contradiction?In my view, both these narratives are in harmony and not in conflict. I say this because the initial failures and the later 'successes', both, can be explained by the same incentive structure that characterises the Chinese authoritarian party-state.In the initial days, government officials in Wuhan were competing against each other in hiding the facts lest the heavy hand of the authoritarian regime fall on them. Local officials claimed there was no person to person transmission, medical professionals who raised alarm were silenced, and state media refused to speak a word about the disease. Even after nine months since the outbreak was first reported, the party-state continues to deflect the blame, claiming success in reporting the outbreak first on one hand, and blaming everyone else in the world for starting the pandemic on the other.These same incentives at least partially explain the later successes as well. First, the authoritarian setup was well-suited to enforce strict lockdowns for long periods at the citizens’ expense. Next, in a desperate urge to project the party in a positive light, many thousands of people were vaccinated without the completion of clinical trials. Despite a history of vaccine safety scandals, the authoritarian regime was ready to risk the lives of citizens in the hope of regaining some lost pride.By taking these dangerous shortcuts, it is quite likely that China’s vaccine candidates will be the first to reach the market. China might even come up with a global vaccine campaign and label it the medical silk road.Despite all this facesaving, if China is the first to get to the market with a vaccine (and that’s a big if), other states’ perceptions are unlikely to make a U-turn. The damage is already done. All projected successes now are like apologising after slapping an unsuspecting person for no reason.The world is increasingly coming to terms with the reality of engaging with China — there are clear short-term gains to be had but the downside risks are way too high. China’s response has shown that these downside risks are not just high but they are always lurking beneath. It will take China more than a few interest-free loans and vaccine diplomacy to make this risk perception disappear.HomeWorkReading and listening recommendations on public policy matters[Article] Emily Birnbaum and Issie Lapowsky in the Protocol on the findings and recommendations from the House antitrust subcommittee’s report on Big Tech[Interview] Nick Couldry and Ulises A. Mejias on The Nuances of Data Colonialism and taking a sociological view on digital monopolies.[Article] David Brooks has a compelling diagnosis of American society over the last two decades. A lot of it applies to India as well. Get on the email list at publicpolicy.substack.com

In today's Finshots, we talk about Google and its new policy that might force developers to shell out a 30% commission on all in-app sales involving digital goods.

FinMin may defer google tax on e-commerce firms based abroad to September

The EU thinks the Netherlands gave IKEA's Dutch subsidiary the tax break equivalent of state aid, the US threatens retaliation of India's "Google Tax", and Colombia and the OECD finally tie the knot. CrossBorder Solutions · The Fiona Show - Facebook Page

The EU thinks the Netherlands gave IKEA's Dutch subsidiary the tax break equivalent of state aid, the US threatens retaliation of India's "Google Tax", and Colombia and the OECD finally tie the knot.

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J. Valero discusses the disappointing results of the ECOFIN Council mid March which failed to approve a European digital tax, however softened the project. This was a near miss (3 Member States refused and unanimity is required) and a lost opportunity for Europe as a global player, several actors say. The ball is thrown back to OECD which will work towards an international digital tax by 2020.

The tech-based banter train continues at pace down the tracks with Fyre Festival chat, iPhone Supplier Human Rights Audits, Black Hole Secrets and the Birth of the Universe, Ultraviolet / Flixter UK Shutdown discussion, Brexit Countdown Viral Campaign, Google Tax Breaks and Aladdin Will Smith Preview Reaction from James! Plus: UK Download Chart, Gaming, Movies and 1 Star! What more do you need?!

Guillaume Poggiaspalla et Tom Conte parlent des défis de Facebook en cette période d'élection brésilienne. Ils discutent aussi monopoles, Google, données personnelles trop éparpillées ou trop centralisées et ils rêvent des merveilles à venir dans nos smartphones chéris. Socially Awkward Zapping : qui regarde les pubs vidéos ? Les publicitaires… principalement. The cake is a lie ? Le Portal ne récoltera pas de données. Enfin si. Ou non. Des fois. Carnaval do Brasil : Whatsapp noyé de propagande avant les présidentielles. Passage à Laktha : nouvelle ingérence Russe dans des élections américaines. Fournitures, nouveau bureau et révisions, Facebook bachotte pour la mi-mandat. Année difficile, comportement à revoir, en progrès mais peut mieux faire. Les investisseurs veulent pousser Zuckerberg dehors. Mais faut pousser fort. - x - = + ? Sauver une marque en détresse avec un politicien en disgrâce. Un Solo avec Harrison Ford (jeune) ? Et avec Jean Paul Rouve ? Ordiphones Les rumeurs de monopoles des GAFA sont très exagérées. D’après eux. Google Tax : le Google Play Store coûtera 40$ en Europe. Tenté par un Gmail personnel ? Foncez dans le gouffre de Helm. TES validé : t’es fiché. Et Nicholas ? TES l’a ? Les techniques astronomiques utilisées pour les photos du Pixel 3 et son bel écran. Mate 20 Pro et l’iPhone X : la sécurité à la tête du client. Ou bien à la voix de son maitre ? La (PS) Vita e bella, Huawei dévoile ses NM cards. L’encoche ? So 2018, Samsung dévoile le futur de la galaxie Galaxy et le Mi Mix 3 Extrême bronzette : Samsung produit ses premiers wafers 7 nm en EUV. Et il taille la route, bientôt des Exynos dans les voitures. Les Mac seront-il ARMés en 2020 ? Ca va dépendre d’Intel... 10 nm or not 10 nm ? Pas de choix dans la date pour One Plus… On peut enfin lire dans son bain ! En bref On se prend le mElon Pas chien, Elon crée le wouf mode pour ses Tesla. Daylight : the Boring Compagnie voit le bout du tunnel. You made me feel… like a virgin, trolled for the very first time. The lands of Elon. “Her” fault ? Essential se sépare de 30% de son personnel. Finalement pas de panique, Atlas est un Ninja en mousse... Octoberus horribilis : encore un soucis de fichiers avec la MAJ de Windows. Le Rift 2 annulé ? Ou pas ? En tout cas Good bye Iribe... Accroche moi la lune. Pour éclairer mes autoroutes. Neutralité du net : le Vermont vs le monde. Sean biiiiiimmmm ! Bonus Tom : Red Dead Redemption is coming… la fin de ma vie à moi. GPP : Aller simple vers l’enfer : BepiColombo vole vers Mercure ! Participants : Tom Conte Présenté par Guillaume Poggiaspalla

In this episode, the boys breakdown the history and current status of the "bullet train," a measure that would put rent control on the ballot and a possible Google head tax. 

In this newscast, we cover 4 news stories and talk briefly about book distribution through Paytm and Snapdeal. In the news stories, we talk about "Google Tax " on online advertising, press release on a book published by a seven year old girl, the story of Divyasha, an 18 year old girl whose book has been picked up by Government of India to promote through Indian embassies worldwide, and finally, amazon's push for print books in regional languages in India. We also talk briefly about Snapdeal and Paytm as channels for selling print books in India. Shownotes are available at www.mykitaab.in/newscast7

This week we examine the implications of the 'Google Tax' and the need for greater female representation in keynote speaker selection.

John Gapper, Vanessa Houlder and Janan Ganesh of the Financial Times, plus Ayesha Hazarika , discuss the latest developments in Westminster this week — including the political fallout of Google's £130m tax bill: was it a big success or a giveaway? — and whether Labour is losing its working class voters under Jeremy Corbyn's leadership. Presented by George Parker, political editor. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Chris and Ian discuss Google Tax, Apple Woes and Sky Q http://www.digitaloutbox.com/podcasts/episode269/DigitalOutbox-269-160129.mp3 Download iTunes MP3 Shownotes Google Reportedly Paid Apple $1B In 2014 To Remain Default Search Engine On iOS Google agrees to pay British authorities £130m in back taxes Google pips Facebook to solve 'grand challenge' of AI Will you like Facebook's new Reactions? Facebook Shutters Its Parse Developer Platform Jack Dorsey confirms four more Twitter executives to leave company Apple iPhone sales flatline as growth falls well short of expectations Apple Says It Has Fixed The Bug That Was Crashing Safari Spotify is finally adding video to its apps Sky Q price and release date finally revealed Picks Ian Forecast Bar - Clean and accurate weather app for Mac - Uses Forecast.io data - £4.49

With special guest: Leon Bambrick (www.secretgeek.net). In which Mike, Steve and special guest Leon talk about Simon Pegg's criticisms of Star Trek, why the "Google Tax" is doomed to fail, Citrix's entry into the IOT market, Google's autonomous cars hitting public roads, Mozilla's VR browser release and how Nvidia is screwing over AMD (or how it isn't).

Raena, Jason and Michael were surprised when Mark popped into the studio to address the Google/Apple imbalance. Mac Malware spreading from OSX to iOS devices is infecting some users that are... LEARN MORE The post Sexting, Google Tax and Mac Malware appeared first on Technogaze!.

Google Enhanced Campaigns Get Social Annotations, Availability For Mobile App Advertisers; Google chairman Eric Schmidt defends tax avoidance policies; Google Reconsideration Request Guidelines; Google Instant Previews Removed From Search Results ; Google Changes Authorship Interface and Removes More By. Also, Kristine Schachinger from SitesWithoutwalls reports from PubCon New Orleans 2013.

Google Enhanced Campaigns Get Social Annotations, Availability For Mobile App Advertisers; Google chairman Eric Schmidt defends tax avoidance policies; Google Reconsideration Request Guidelines; Google Instant Previews Removed From Search Results ; Google Changes Authorship Interface and Removes More By. Also, Kristine Schachinger from SitesWithoutwalls reports from PubCon New Orleans 2013.