Google has responded to blowback about a privacy hostile change it made this week, which removes user agency by automating Chrome browser sign-ins, by rowing back slightly — saying it will give users the ability to disable this linking of web-based sign-in with browser-based sign-in in a forthcoming update (Chrome 70), due mid next month. The […]
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The future of Google search looks a lot like social media
For all its behind-the-scenes innovation, Google Search has looked more or less the same for the last 20 years: You type some words in a search box and get back a list of links.
The company’s added lots of bells and whistles over the years, but…
Here’s everything Google announced today at its “Future of Search” event
Google has changed a lot in 20 years. What started as an index of “just” a few million pages is now reaching into the hundreds of billions; what was once a relatively simple (if very clever!) search engine is now an impossibly complex brew of machine learning, computer vision, and data science that finds its […]
View More Here’s everything Google announced today at its “Future of Search” eventGoogle Search gets a slew of new features on its 20th anniversary
It’s been 20 years since Google Search first arrived on the web, and the company is updating its core product with a slew of new features for the anniversary.
The throughline for the features is AI. Google Search now anticipates and customizes much o…
Report: Google Dragonfly links phone numbers to search results
Google isn’t doing a very good job of not being evil at the moment. That’s mainly due to the revelation back in August it was developing a censored search engine for China called Dragonfly. But it turns out Dragonfly isn’t just censored, it makes tra…
View More Report: Google Dragonfly links phone numbers to search resultsReport: Google Dragonfly links phone numbers to search results
Google isn’t doing a very good job of not being evil at the moment. That’s mainly due to the revelation back in August it was developing a censored search engine for China called Dragonfly. But it turns out Dragonfly isn’t just censored, it makes tra…
View More Report: Google Dragonfly links phone numbers to search resultsGoogle rebuked by Senate Intelligence Committee for not sending Page or Pichai to testify
Alphabet’s decision to decline to send its CEO Larry Page to today’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing — to answer questions about what social media platforms are doing to thwart foreign influence operations intended to sow political division in the U.S. — has earned it a stinging rebuke from the committee’s vice chair, Sen. Mark Warner. “I’m […]
View More Google rebuked by Senate Intelligence Committee for not sending Page or Pichai to testifyThe Google Assistant is now bilingual
The Google Assistant just got more useful for multilingual families. Starting today, you’ll be able to set up two languages in the Google Home app and the Assistant on your phone and Google Home will then happily react to your commands in both English and Spanish, for example. Today’s announcement doesn’t exactly come as a […]
View More The Google Assistant is now bilingualTrump’s anti-Google tweets show that he doesn’t know how the internet works
It seems that someone needs to explain the concept of SEO to President Donald Trump after another early morning tweetstorm, this time aimed at search results on Google.
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Google Go search app for emerging markets can now read out website content
Google has lit the news canon at its annual India event which takes place in New Delhi today. The company just introduced a subtle new AI-powered feature for its Google Go search app: website reading. You can bet this is the first of many product announcements to come out today. The U.S. firm introduced Google Go […]
View More Google Go search app for emerging markets can now read out website contentGoogle Search’s new featured snippet panel saves you more clicks
Google is introducing an additional format for featured snippets in its search results today. For years, these snippets have appeared at the top of the search results page and featured both images and text that Google thinks are relevant to your query. They are all about Google saving you a click. Today, Google is going […]
View More Google Search’s new featured snippet panel saves you more clicksGoogle’s new celebrity video app is basically AMA for search
Google’s making it easier for celebrities to control what appears in their search results.
Thursday, the search giant released a new app called Cameos, which lets celebs record vertical full-screen video answers to commonly searched-for questions abo…