The Department of Justice sues Google over antitrust concerns Google is accused of “unlawfully maintaining monopolies” around search and search-related advertising. N. Summers @nisummers Jim Young / Reuters We all knew it was coming. Today, the US government’s Department of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google. The company, which is a part of … Continue reading US Justice Department is reportedly poised to sue Google over its digital ad dominance
Google’s New Ranking Algorithm Wants Content Written For Humans by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 18, 2022 Google will initiate a site-wide algorithm update next week called the “helpful content update,” intended to devalue content written for search engines. In other words, the algorithm looks for and prefers content written for humans. It will … Continue reading Google New Ranking Algorithm Wants Content Written For Humans
FEC Gives Google Green Light To Let Political Campaigns Evade Gmail Spam Filters by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 12, 2022 A four-to-one vote by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) approved an advisory opinion on Google’s proposed pilot program for the 2022 elections that would keep campaign emails out of users’ spam folders. More than 1.5 … Continue reading FEC Gives Google Green Light To Let Political Campaigns Evade Gmail Spam Filters
Google Provides Access To Gaming From Search Results by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 12, 2022 Google executives have been looking to integrate the ability to search for a video game and launch it in the web browser for a few years. That is now a reality with a feature in the company’s Stadia streaming service … Continue reading Google Provides Access To Gaming From Search Results
Google Algorithms Can Tell When Sources Agree On Facts by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 11, 2022 Google designs its ranking systems to serve relevant information from the most reliable sources that demonstrate expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. The latest artificial intelligence (AI) model, Multitask Unified Model (MUM), helps by identifying and prioritizing signals related to reliability. … Continue reading Google Algorithms Can Tell When Sources Agree On Facts
Google Details Media Buys For Apple ‘Get The Message’ Campaign by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 11, 2022 Google has expanded on the details of its Get The Message campaign targeted at Apple that launched earlier this week. It addresses the green and blue bubbles problem in text messages as well as other common … Continue reading Google Details Media Buys For Apple ‘Get The Message’ Campaign
By Michael Grothaus August 01, 2022 The metaverse is not yet upon us, but companies are already cutting back on hiring in the sector. That’s according to a report from Bloomberg, which highlights a study by Revelio Labs, which showed that postings for jobs relating to the “metaverse” declined by a whopping 81% between … Continue reading ‘Metaverse’ job openings are down 81% as Facebook, Apple, and Google roll back hiring
Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 9, 2022 Google Search briefly experienced complications from a nearby electrical fire that lead to longer page-load times, errors, and empty search results. An electrical fire at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, injuring three electricians working on a substation … Continue reading Google Search Outage Causes Issues With Quality And Indexing
Google CEO Unveils ‘Simplicity Sprint’ To Boost Productivity by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, August 1, 2022 Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai told staff last week that the company’s productivity and focus isn’t up to par. At an all-hands meeting, he introduced a concept called “Simplicity Sprint” to motivate employees. Simplicity Sprint aims to gain ideas … Continue reading Google CEO Unveils ‘Simplicity Sprint’ To Boost Productivity
How to get the most out of Google Drive For anyone who needs an overview of one of the most potent free productivity tools around. S. Rutherford @samrutherford Storage and pricing Uploading, support files, and organization Collaboration Accessing files offline Google Drive is an incredibly powerful tool for storing and organizing all sorts of … Continue reading How to get the most out of Google Drive
