Yandex is the search engine with majority market share in Russia and the fourth largest search engine in the world. On January 27, 2023, it suffered what is arguably one of the largest data leaks that a modern tech company has endured in many years, but is the second leak in less than a decade. In 2015, a former Yandex employee attempted to sell Yandex’s search engine code on the black market for around $30,000. The initial leak in January this year revealed 1,922 ranking factors, of which… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google exec claims he was fired for not being ‘inclusive,’ denying Asian female colleague’s sexual advances  Yahoo Finance Source link

Simpler Trading VP of Options Danielle Shay provides insight on investing in the stock market on ‘Making Money.’ A 15-year veteran at Google filed a federal discrimination lawsuit against his former tech giant employer alleging the White man was fired for not being “inclusive” after rejecting sexual advances from an Asian female executive who repeatedly drunkenly lashed out at him at work events in New York City.  Ryan Olohan, the former Managing Director of Food, Beverage and… Source link

Opening up another front in the increasing tensions between Big Tech and Washington, the Biden administration released a new report Wednesday that outlined what they say are a host of anticompetitive practices inside the nation’s biggest mobile app stores. The report from the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) concluded that “the current mobile app ecosystem, and especially the current app store model, is harmful to consumers and to… Source link

Photo: chrisdorney (Shutterstock) Whaa..?? Yahoo Search claims that it’s about to reinvent the search game. Nothing could be more surprising. For the past decade or so, Yahoo has been pretty lackluster in the search department—so lackluster, in fact, that it lets Microsoft do all the searching for it. While Yahoo Search still exists, it is powered by Bing’s algorithm (via a partnership struck circa 2009). So…if you hate Bing, you probably also hate Yahoo Search. That said, Search… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yandex code leak: Why hack of ‘Russian Google’s’ ranking factors has spooked the SEO industry  The Indian Express Source link

The recent code fragments leak from Russian search engine giant Yandex has sent shockwaves across the SEO community worldwide. As reported around news agencies, almost 50GB worth stolen data from the world’s fourth largest search engine was leaked into the public domain. According to experts, the leak from the company will offer some interesting insights into the functioning of search engines and how the SEO market will be impacted by it. The leak took place sometime on January 25. Several… Source link

The recent code fragments leak from Russian search engine giant Yandex has sent shockwaves across the SEO community worldwide. As reported around news agencies, almost 50GB worth stolen data from the world’s fourth largest search engine was leaked into the public domain. According to experts, the leak from the company will offer some interesting insights into the functioning of search engines and how the SEO market will be impacted by it. The leak took place sometime on January 25. Several… Source link

Ah, Google Assistant. Sure seems like our trusty ol’ Android-dwellin’ pal is getting brushed over a lot as of late, doesn’t it? First came the fact that Google made nary a mention of its honey-voiced virtual genie at the big honkin’ Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas last month — and that’s after years of Assistant and its “Hey Google” catchphrase being placarded practically everywhere at that event and being the company’s core focus. But even more broadly is… Source link

Google has notified customers using its Google Fi cell service that their personal data may have been stolen in a recent cyberattack, which is believed to be in connection with a T-Mobile data breach earlier this month. In an email sent to Google Fi customers on Monday, obtained by Android Police, Google said that the cell network’s primary network provider had become aware of suspicious activity in a system containing Google Fi customer data.  Google Fi is an MVNO that uses T-Mobile’s… Source link