15 posts tagged ‘Google Search’
Apple to Defend Google Revenue Sharing Agreement
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Jody Godoy (Hacker News, Reddit): Apple has asked to participate in Google’s upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing agreements that send the iPhone maker billions of dollars each year for making Google the default search engine on its Safari browser.[…]Apple received an estimated $20 billion […]
Vlad Prelovac on Kagi Search and Orion
The Talk Show (transcript): Kagi founder and CEO Vlad Prelovac joins the show to talk about the business of web search, the thinking behind Kagi’s own amazing search engine, and their upstart WebKit-based browser Orion. Here are some highlights from what I thought was a very interesting conversation: Microsoft tried that with Bing and they […]
Google Page Annotation Links
Barry Schwartz: When you are browsing a web page in the Google App native browser, Google can “extract interesting entities from the webpage and highlight them in line.” When you click on them, Google takes you to more search results.I don’t think this is a new feature, I mean, I’ve heard of this before from […]
DOJ Wants Google to Sell Chrome and De-Google Android
Juli Clover (Hacker News, 9To5Google): The United States Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of an ongoing antitrust lawsuit, reports Bloomberg. Earlier this year, Google was found to have a search monopoly, and antitrust regulators have since been deciding on the actions that should be taken to address […]
Google Sheds Responsibility for AI Sites Dominating Search Results
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The internet is quickly becoming a slurry of AI-generated garbage, and Google has decided to just let us all marinate in it. Anyone online can see that Google Search is getting worse, but now it’s becoming clear why. Google News is boosting AI-generated content over real, human journalism, according to a report from 40… Read more...
Taylor Swift Is Shadowbanned From Google's 2023 Year In Trending Searches List
Taylor Swift is so popular that seismologists measured recent tour dates in Seattle as a magnitude 2.3 earthquake. You wouldn’t know it from the latest edition of Google’s annual annual “Year In Search” roundup, though. Every December, the company publishes a list of the year’s most popular search terms. But one name… Read more...
Google's Project Ellmann Shows Your Life in Photos
In a recent internal summit, Google proposed its next big idea: an AI-powered feature titled ‘Project Ellmann’ that would provide users with a snapshot or, as they’re calling it, a “bird’s eye view” of their entire lives. Read more...
Google Is Sending Its 'Animal of the Day' Assistant Feature to a Farm Upstate
Google’s latest on its list of merciless murders is the Assistant’s “animal of the day” feature. While it’s not likely that the individual command product will make the Killed by Google Graveyard anytime soon, once it’s officially phased out by the end of the month, it will mark the end of an era for the Google… Read more...