87 posts tagged ‘Google’
The Curse premiere: A satire that's as biting as it is absurd
AV Club,
It was about time HGTV got the dark biting satire the network seems so perfectly tailored for. Those ready-made gentrifying and style-flattening house flipping shows were clearly overdue for a smart send-up. And with Showtime’s The Curse, we may have finally gotten one that’s as biting as it is absurd. For what else… Read more...
Google Vertex AI Search
mjtsai,
Brett Terpstra: So it turns out Google now offers an API (once again). It’s limited to 100 searches per day for the free version, so I don’t want to put my API key into the public distribution of SearchLink, but if you want to tap into Google’s power for your searches, you can now add […]
Google Abandons Web Environment Integrity API
Thomas Claburn (via Hacker News): Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to critics looked more like DRM for websites.[…]Apple incidentally has already shipped its own attestation scheme called Private Access Tokens, which while it presents some of the same concerns […]
1 Reality Show, 2 Gossipy Investigations, and More to Fill Your Weekend
Jezebel,
The holidays are certainly in the air because Mariah Carey has been hit with a $20 million copyright infringement lawsuit for her legendary banger “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” The argument is quite the stretch—though crazier suits have won! Still, if you’ve had a long week, at least you didn’t spend these wild… Read more...
Cue Testimony in US v. Google
David Pierce (MacRumors, Hacker News): Apple is in court because of something called the Information Services Agreement, or ISA: a deal that makes Google’s search engine the default on Apple’s products. The ISA has been in place since 2002, but Cue was responsible for negotiating its current iteration with Google CEO Sundar Pichai in 2016. […]
Dischler Testimony on AdWords Fraud
Adi Robertson: As the second week of the US v. Google antitrust trial gets underway, the Department of Justice is focusing on the real moneymaker behind Google Search: ads. It alleges that Google’s dominance lets it raise prices for advertisers with few repercussions — a claim backed up by Google ads executive Jerry Dischler on […]
Google Changes Search Queries to Show More Ads
Megan Gray (via Jason Kottke): When you enter a query, you might expect a search engine to incorporate synonyms into the algorithm as well as text phrase pairings in natural language processing. But this overhaul went further, actually altering queries to generate more commercial results.There have long been suspicions that the search giant manipulates ad […]