Google Living Microsoft’s 20th-Century Nightmare by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, August 14, 2024 Will the U.S. Justice Department force Google’s parent Alphabet to shed at least one of its business units? It could take years for any type of breakup to be finalized. The ad industry has been batting around that possibility for years. … Continue reading Google Living Microsoft’s 20th-Century Nightmare
Changes in technology and consumer behavior make this the perfect moment for companies that want to challenge Google’s dominant market position. Constantine von Hoffman on August 6, 2024 Google’s loss in its federal antitrust case may mean huge changes for the company, web users and digital advertisers. It could result in a big hit … Continue reading What the Google antitrust ruling could mean for advertisers
July 02, 2024 Google is nowhere near its climate target. AI is partly to blame Google cited artificial intelligence and the demand it puts on data centers, which require massive amounts of electricity, for last year’s growth. BY Associated Press Three years ago, Google set an ambitious plan to address climate change by going “net zero,” … Continue reading Google is nowhere near its climate target. AI is partly to blame
Former Googler Says AI Is Driven By ‘Stone-Cold Panic’ by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, May 20, 2024 Scott Jenson, former Google user interface strategist and designer, wrote in a LinkedIn post that the artificial intelligence (AI) projects he worked on were “poorly motivated” and driven by “mindless panic.” AI would make all projects great, … Continue reading Former Googler Says AI Is Driven By ‘Stone-Cold Panic’
Here are the key points under contention in the most significant anti-trust case of this century, Constantine von Hoffman on May 17, 2024 The Department of Justice made a pretty damning argument in its anti-trust case against Google. Judging by the government’s closing summary, the tech giant seems to have done everything wrong if … Continue reading Is Google a monopoly? The DOJ’s case in 11 slides
Among the findings: 91.4% of all search queries triggered SGE; Quora was a big winner; and paid search ads appeared 50% of the time. Danny Goodwin on March 25, 2024 There will be “some erosion of current traffic levels” from brand-related terms as a result of Google’s Search Generative Experience, according to a new Authoritas … Continue reading Google SGE a top threat to brand and product search terms, study finds
By Clint Rainey January 18, 2024 You’ve heard this claim before, but a new study lends academic credence to the common refrain that “Google is getting worse.” For a paper that’s being presented at March’s European Conference on Information Retrieval, a team of German researchers googled some 7,392 search terms once a week for … Continue reading Is Google getting worse? This is what leading computer scientists say
Google sues scammers that allegedly released a malware-filled Bard knockoff The defendants were previously served with over 300 takedown requests. Lawrence Bonk Mon, Nov 13, 2023 Future Publishing via Getty Images The hype surrounding emerging technologies like generative AI creates a wild west, of sorts, for bad actors seeking to capitalize on consumer confusion. … Continue reading Google sues scammers that allegedly released a malware-filled Bard knockoff
Google refutes claims it violated its own guidelines and misled advertisers Kris Holt @krisholt Google has denied “extremely inaccurate claims” that it may have violated its own rules and misled advertisers over ad viewership on third-party websites. Through the Google Video Partner (GVP) network and TrueView (an ad product that’s also used on … Continue reading Google refutes claims it violated its own guidelines and misled advertisers
T-Mobile data breach compromised 37 million customers’ data Mariella Moon @mariella_moon T-Mobile has admitted that hackers were able to steal the information of around 37 million postpaid and prepaid customers in another major data breach. The carrier said in a regulatory filing that it discovered the issue on January 5th, but that it believes the … Continue reading Google Fi warns customers that their data has been compromised
