By Clint Rainey January 18, 2024 You’ve heard this claim before, but a new study lends academic credence to the common refrain that “Google is getting worse.” For a paper that’s being presented at March’s European Conference on Information Retrieval, a team of German researchers googled some 7,392 search terms once a week for … Continue reading Is Google getting worse? This is what leading computer scientists say
Google CEO says more layoffs expected ‘throughout the year’ in internal memo This follows the company’s recent rounds of redundancies, which affected over a thousand employees. Richard Lai Updated Thu, Jan 18, 2024 REUTERS / Reuters Following Google’s recent rounds of layoffs affecting over a thousand jobs, CEO Sundar Pichai has reportedly told remaining … Continue reading Google CEO says more layoffs expected ‘throughout the year’ in internal memo
Marketers say Google ad reps don’t seem to know much about services, can’t get routine problems corrected and use scare tactics to sell. Nicola Agius on January 16, 2024 Google Ads customer service has plummeted to an unacceptable all-time low, according to marketers. From incorrect account suspensions to sales calls “aggressively” pushing automation to confusion … Continue reading Marketers fume as Google Ads’ customer service hits ‘all-time low’
By Christopher Zara January 12, 2024 Companies call them prompts. Techies call them nags. Around the internet, the rest of us just call them pop-ups—and we hate them. Nevertheless, pop-up windows are an endless bane of online life, despite whatever game of whack-a-mole we might try to play with ad blockers, browser plug-ins, or … Continue reading Google search users are getting annoyed by a pop-up window that asks: See results closer to you?
The solutions aim to make it easier to train and deploy chatbots, improve product image generation and provide consumers with better search. Constantine von Hoffman on January 12, 2024 On the eve of the National Retail Federation’s annual convention, Google Cloud announced a slew of new AI-powered tools for retailers. They are designed to ease … Continue reading Google unveils new set of AI-powered tools for retailers
By Michael Grothaus January 12, 2024 Just two weeks into the new year, it’s already been a hard time for the tech sector. Any hopes that the layoffs that began in 2022 and accelerated in 2023 would begin to subside have yet to be realized as more major companies joined other big players, including … Continue reading Tech layoffs 2024: Discord, Google, Audible, and others add to bad start for the year
Google ML Needs A ‘Learning Phase’ Reboot by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 12, 2024 It took a highly experienced search team working for two weeks to develop a workaround for a multi-location Google Ads campaign because the company’s machine learning (ML) algorithms would not cooperate. Tim Halloran, director of operations at Aimclear, tried … Continue reading Google ML Needs A ‘Learning Phase’ Reboot
Businesses wanting to maintain their online presence will need to rebuild their sites using an alternative platform. Nicola Agius on January 10, 2024 Websites made with Google Business Profiles will be turned off in March. Customers attempting to visit those websites will be automatically redirected to your Business Profile until June 10. Beyond this date, … Continue reading Google to shut down Business Profiles websites
Google is phasing out third-party cookies this fall, but some sites will be able to temporarily re-enable them until the year end. Nicola Agius on January 8, 2024 Google is giving websites the opportunity to request additional time to transition away from third-party cookie dependencies. To address possible compatibility concerns, the search engine has introduced … Continue reading Google is allowing select sites to delay phase out of third-party cookies
A new tool that defaults to restricting third-party cookies is now being rolled out to 1% of Chrome users globally. Nicola Agius on January 4, 2024 Google has officially started to phase out third-party cookies. A new feature called Tracking Protection, which restricts third-party cookies by default, began rolling out to 1% of Chrome users … Continue reading Google has started phasing out third-party cookies
