Google Search was once one of the wonders of the online world. Its clean, organised pages of results filtered the otherwise unmanageable slog of information on the internet. That was until it became cluttered with adverts. Now the world’s biggest search engine is less encyclopedia, more Yellow Pages. Look up a search term that can also be a product — asthma inhalers, for example — and you will need to scroll past up to four large adverts before reaching non-sponsored results…. Source link
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Jim Harbaugh, Michigan under NCAA investigation for potential rules violations
The Michigan football program is under NCAA investigation for numerous potential rules violations, including head coach Jim Harbaugh directly for failing to cooperate with investigators, a Level I violation, sources told Yahoo Sports. The NCAA has prepared a draft of a notice of allegations, which once delivered to the school, will start a 90-day window on the case before the official notice is given. The program is also being investigated for four Level II violations, which are generally… Source link
Read More »NFL rules Bills-Bengals a ‘no contest’ and AFC title game may be at neutral site as owners prepare to vote on ‘inequities’
The NFL announced Thursday night that it has canceled the remainder of the Monday Night Football game between the Buffalo Bills and Cincinnati Bengals and will designate the game as a “no contest,” leaving the two franchises with only 16 games in the 2022 schedule. That decision — which comes on the heels of a postponement following the cardiac arrest and subsequent hospitalization of Bills safety Damar Hamlin during Monday’s game — will be followed by a special league meeting on… Source link
Read More »At CES 2023, Google showed up as an automotive company
In recent years, Google has used CES as a platform to showcase its vision of “Better Together” — the idea that all devices should play nice with each other. Typically, that means it makes announcements around features like Fast Pair and expansion of Cast compatibility to more third-party products. At CES 2023, the company shared that it’s working with Spotify to integrate the Connect streaming tool into the Android UI. It also teased a preview of an audio handoff feature that would suggest… Source link
Read More »At CES 2023, Google showed up as an automotive company
In recent years, Google has used CES as a platform to showcase its vision of “Better Together” — the idea that all devices should play nice with each other. Typically, that means it makes announcements around features like Fast Pair and expansion of Cast compatibility to more third-party products. At CES 2023, the company shared that it’s working with Spotify to integrate the Connect streaming tool into the Android UI. It also teased a preview of an audio handoff feature that would suggest… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Hockey: Friday Picks
All-Star Game rosters are out, so we know we’re really into the thick of the NHL season. Friday features six games, with several All-Stars in the mix, of course. Here are some players to target, and some to avoid, for your DFS lineups. GOALIE Kaapo Kahkonen, SAN at ANA ($23): Kahkonen has struggled this year, but he has a career .902 save percentage so I expect him to improve. He won’t necessarily be great, but he’s a better goalie than his current numbers (including an arguably-unsustainable… Source link
Read More »The tech ecosystem has ‘become really unsafe’
The head of the nation’s top cybersecurity agency is warning that the current technology ecosystem, which underpins much of our lives, is at risk of being hacked by malicious actors. In an interview with Yahoo Finance at CES 2023 in Las Vegas, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly explained that the tech industry, consumers, and government need to come together to help improve cyber safety in the U.S. “We live in a world…of massive connections where that… Source link
Read More »Can AI chatbots like ChatGPT compete with Google search?
If you haven’t played with ChatGPT before, it really is amazing. It’s kind of like having a friend who read the entire internet. Type in a question, and it’ll type back a response. Here, take a look. Over a month ago, just about the entire internet freaked out over ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot created by a San Francisco-based company called OpenAI. Not only could it produce a wholly original response to queries about the risks of… Source link
Read More »6 things that will get cheaper in 2023
Inflation burned consumers in 2022. Prices rose faster than wages, on average, eroding the typical shopper’s purchasing power. Some things got so expensive buyers simply gave up. Consumers ought to get some revenge in 2023. Overall inflation has been slowing, from a peak of 9% in June to 7.1% in November. In coming months, there should be disinflation, or a declining rate of inflation, in many categories of goods and services. In some categories there will be deflation, or an outright drop… Source link
Read More »Google Recommends Multiple Date Signals On Webpages
Google stresses the importance of including multiple date indicators on webpages to ensure that the correct date appears in search results. After a mistake with dates in Google News that Glenn Gabe highlighted on Twitter, Google’s Search Liaison Danny Sullivan reminds the community of the recommended practice of including multiple date signals on webpages to avoid similar errors. Here’s our guidance on dates:https://t.co/SwbFzZePsNhttps://t.co/crExeaQrVz Understand that ideally, the meta… Source link
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