Google agrees to settle $5 billion lawsuit accusing it of tracking Incognito users The complaint said Google deceived people into thinking they could control what information they share. Mariella Moon Fri, Dec 29, 2023, AP Photo/Eric Risberg In 2020, Google was hit with a lawsuit that accused it of tracking Chrome users’ activities even … Continue reading Google agrees to settle $5 billion lawsuit accusing it of tracking Incognito users
Google is rolling out a new feature in January that will impact 1% of randomly selected Chrome users globally. Nicola Agius on December 14, 2023 Google will begin testing a new feature that restricts third-party cookies by default in the coming weeks. The Tracking Protection tool will be rolled out on January 4, 2024, to … Continue reading Google will start phasing out third-party cookies in weeks with new feature
Agency Finds Review Abuse, LSA Reviewjacking On Google by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 7, 2023 Review stars disappeared overnight from search results for many businesses in 2019, but rich-snippet stars for locations that were part of large multi-location chain quickly reappeared. Some SEOs found workarounds for smaller businesses, like using product review schema, to get … Continue reading Agency Finds Review Abuse, LSA Reviewjacking On Google
Missing drive files on desktop? Google has the fix Deanna Ritchie / Last Updated: Dec 6, 2023 Last week, a bug caused files to disappear from the desktop drive. There are now steps that users can use to recover files. Sadly, the fix is not a simple solution. But Google posted the list of … Continue reading Missing drive files on desktop? Google has the fix
Google attempts to fix the Drive bug that is causing people’s files to go missing Good luck. Richard Lai Updated Thu, Dec 7, 2023 Photo by Richard Lai/Engadget It was reported in late November that Google Drive for desktop (v84.0.0.0-84.0.4.0) had a sync issue, which caused months or even years of files to … Continue reading Google attempts to fix the Drive bug that is causing people’s files to go missing
The requirements apply across the domain, forcing marketing and sales to work together on email strategy. Mike Pastore on December 6, 2023 This February, Google and Yahoo will begin enforcing new requirements for bulk email senders. The guidelines largely focus on three areas: authentication of outgoing emails, reported spam rates and the ability to easily … Continue reading New rules for bulk email senders from Google, Yahoo: What you need to know
By Michael Grothaus December 05, 2023 If you googled “remote jobs” this year, you’re not alone. In August 2023, U.S.-based users entering that search hit an all-time high, Google Trends data reveals. In fact, “remote jobs” searches spiked to then-highs at two specific times: in January 2023, right after the December 2022 holiday period, … Continue reading ‘Remote jobs’ Google searches hit a record high, but the top 5 occupations might surprise you
By Michael Grothaus December 02, 2023 No one hates change like app users, and the latest changes that Google has made to the colors in its Google Maps app are ruffling users’ feathers all over the web. Google Maps users on Reddit have called the new colors “godawful” and expressed how they “hate” the … Continue reading Google Maps’ new colors: a hopeful sign of more changes to come
AI Interest Engine Integrates With Google Ads by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, December 1, 2023 It has been years since I first met Jascha Kaykas-Wolff, president at Lytics, in person at a sushi restaurant in Huntington Beach, California. I’m embarrassed to admit I don’t remember who he worked for at the time. I do remember following … Continue reading AI Interest Engine Integrates With Google Ads
By Adele Peters In 2020, Google set a goal to get to 24/7 carbon-free energy by the end of the decade, meaning that all of its data centers and offices will run on clean electricity every hour of every day, all year long. The company didn’t know exactly how that would happen. “We realized … Continue reading This new geothermal plant in the Nevada desert is helping power Google data centers
