Google today announced that it is working with a number of news organizations to surface more data from their data journalism projects in its search results. The idea here is to make it easier to discover the data that a lot of these organizations produce and then surface it in an easy to read format […]
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Google Drive will hit a billion users this week
Google loves to talk about how it has seven products with more than a billion users. Those are its flagship search service, Gmail, Chrome, Google Maps, YouTube, Android and the Google Play Store. Indeed, Android actually has more than 2 billion users now. Later this week, we will be able to add an eighth service […]
View More Google Drive will hit a billion users this weekOprah just Googled herself for the first time ever and learned so much
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Oprah is so humble it took her until 2018 to Google herself.
For comparison, I first “Googled” myself with WebCrawler in 1997.
Either way, it’s disarming. Oprah revealed the results of her very first Google in an interview with British Vogue this week.
“I am so impressed with myself,” Oprah told Vogue editor Edward Enninful.
“This is what I didn’t know: that I was the first African-American self-made billionaire. Did not know that!” Oprah revealed.
The mogul also disclosed that she didn’t know that she “donated more to charity in the 20th century than any other African-American.” Read more…
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View More Oprah just Googled herself for the first time ever and learned so muchGoogle wants to make the college search easier
Google Search is getting an update today that will put data about colleges front and center when you search for a school’s name. The idea here is somewhat similar to what Google did with its job search feature. In this case, the company aggregates data about a school that’s typically hard to find and then […]
View More Google wants to make the college search easierGoogle is quietly formulating a new strategy for China
Google is slowing piecing together a strategy for China to ensure that it doesn’t miss out on the growth of technology in the world’s largest country. It’s been months in the making through a series of gradual plays, but further evidence of those plans comes today via a product launch. Files Go — a file manager for […]
View More Google is quietly formulating a new strategy for ChinaWatchdogs ask Googlers to stop it favoring its own search results
A new coalition of activist groups led by Yelp and TripAdvisor are renewing the fight to get Google to give a fair opportunity to all sites instead of putting its Knowledge Cards atop the results for subjective search queries. The alliance that includes Fight For The Future and Consumer Watchdog.org has assembled tens of thousands […]
View More Watchdogs ask Googlers to stop it favoring its own search resultsLorde can now start posting on Google
Over the last couple of years, Google has been slowly (very slowly!) opening up the ability for celebrities, politicians, sports teams, museums and local businesses to post social media-like updates directly to its search result pages. Today, aft…
View More Lorde can now start posting on GoogleYou can now use Google Search right from iMessage
Multi-taskers, rejoice: Google just made it a lot easier to search while texting with friends.
The company just introduced an update that adds an iMessage extension to Google’s iOS app. This means you can search and share results without ever h…
Google search results might be getting a makeover
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Google search results — one of the most often used tools on the internet — may soon get a new look.
Spotted by Reddit user DiscombobulatedLead, Google is apparently testing new kind of search-results page that’s based on the company’s Material design approach that’s been spreading through Google services the past few years.
While the old layout displays all search results on one white background, the new layout reportedly displays each result in a “card box” with defined borders.
Google has been updated more and more of its desktop services around Material; Google Calendar was one of the most recent to get a makeover. Material roughly began with the launch Android 5.0 Lollipop, and it generally emphasizes cards, layers, “flat” textures, and specific coloring schemes. Read more…
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Google search results — one of the most often used tools on the internet — may soon get a new look.
Spotted by Reddit user DiscombobulatedLead, Google is apparently testing new kind of search-results page that’s based on the company’s Material design approach that’s been spreading through Google services the past few years.
While the old layout displays all search results on one white background, the new layout reportedly displays each result in a “card box” with defined borders.
Google has been updated more and more of its desktop services around Material; Google Calendar was one of the most recent to get a makeover. Material roughly began with the launch Android 5.0 Lollipop, and it generally emphasizes cards, layers, “flat” textures, and specific coloring schemes. Read more…
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View More Google search results might be getting a makeoverGoogle tests its answer to Apple’s screenshot-editing tools
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One of the best features in iOS 11 was the addition of new markup features that made it much easier to edit screenshots without having to go find them in the Photos app. Now, Google is coming out with its own take.
Android already includes ways to do this, but — like so much of Android — it depends on which phone you have since it’s not an official part of the operating system.
The latest beta for the Google app on Android includes new screenshot-editing tool that functions very similarly to Apple’s markup tool. Once enabled, the app will surface a prompt after you take a screenshot anywhere in the Google app. Read more…
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View More Google tests its answer to Apple’s screenshot-editing toolsChrome will soon mark all unencrypted pages as ‘not secure’
Google’s Chrome browser will soon flag every site that doesn’t use HTTPS encryption. Starting in July, with the launch of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure’ and prominently highlight this in its URL bar. Over the course of the last few years, Google has strongly advocated for the use of HTTPS to help keep your browsing data safe from anybody… Read More