Yelp sues Google, alleging Google abused its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in the local search and local search advertising markets
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Yelp sues Google, alleging Google used its dominance in general search to gain an unfair advantage in local search services and local search advertising markets
Yelp complained for more than a decade that Google tilted the search market in its favor. After its rival's landmark legal loss, it finally decided to sue.
A study of 14K domains used in the C4, RefinedWeb, and Dolma datasets finds a dramatic drop in content available to train AI models as publishers tighten access
Google employees have mostly ignored the DOJ's antitrust case, and some expect only small business tweaks and some fines; closing arguments concluded on May 3
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Google lays off hundreds of staff working on Assistant and says the restructuring would help improve Assistant as the company explores integrating newer AI tech
Google is laying off hundreds of people working on its voice-activated Google Assistant software and eliminating a similar number …
Epic v. Google: Sundar Pichai confirms Google paid Apple 36% of the search revenue generated on iPhones, saying the total payment “was well over $10B” in 2022
Sundar Pichai, Google's chief executive, testified on Tuesday for the second time in two weeks to defend his company against monopoly claims.
Internal Google documents detail plans to contain Apple's search ambitions after Spotlight's 2021 update; sources say Google paid Apple $18B for search in 2021
Google has worried for years that Apple would one day expand its internet search technology, and has been working on ways to prevent that from happening.
US v. Google: Satya Nadella says Google cemented its search dominance via default search deals with Apple and he may have been overenthusiastic about ChatGPT
and Apple could fix it New York Times : Microsoft C.E.O. Testifies That Google's Power in Search Is Ubiquitous Bloomberg : Microsoft CEO Says Google Search Dominance to Give It AI ...
NetBlocks: at least five Russian telcos block Google News and other ISPs reduce access to the service, as Russia's feud with a mercenary leader intensifies
At least five telecommunications companies have blocked the service, which aggregates news from various sources …
Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 3% YoY to $69.8B, net income down 8% YoY to $15.1B, Other Bets revenue down 35% YoY to $288M, and Other Bets loss up 47% YoY
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 25, 2023 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2023.
Sources detail Google's project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi
The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one.
Sources detail Google's project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi
The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one.
Sources detail Google's project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi
The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one.
Sources detail Google's project Magi to upgrade search with AI, as Samsung considers defaulting to Bing; source: 160+ employees are working full time on Magi
The tech giant is sprinting to protect its core business with a flurry of projects, including updates to its search engine and plans for an all-new one.
Tech giants' cuts heavily impacted staff working on big bets and moonshots, like Alphabet's X and Amazon's Alexa and drones; Meta's Reality Labs is an exception
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in lower traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in low traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles
The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Sources: OpenAI releasing ChatGPT led Google to declare a “code red”, including reassigning teams to respond to the threat ChatGPT poses to its search business
A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.
Sources: OpenAI releasing ChatGPT led Google to declare a “code red”, including reassigning teams to respond to the threat ChatGPT poses to its search business
A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.
Ahead of the US midterms, researchers say YouTube, which often flies under the radar, has misinformation blind spots that allow false narratives to slip through
The video platform said it had limited the spread of misinformation ahead of Election Day, but new research showed that false narratives continued to slip through.