Google is rolling out a few new changes to its ranking systems in search, which are designed to help surface good content in your results and hide some of the worst and most cynical stuff on the web. The company says that it is doing a better job of downranking content that exists only to summarize other content — which can sometimes be normal SEO stuff but is also increasingly a job for generative AI tools — and in combatting some of the tricks people use to trick its ranking systems.

A Google engineer sparked a ruckus at a New York tech conference when he accused an executive from the search giant’s Israel-based operations of “powering genocide” by cooperating with the Israeli government. Barak Regev, managing director of Google Israel, was delivering a lecture at the “Mind the Tech” conference in New York City on Monday when a man wearing an orange Google T-shirt stood up and identified himself as an engineer in the company’s Cloud… Source link

Image Credits: Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called “egress fees” attached. The news follows some two months after Google announced similar plans, though in Google’s case as the third-biggest player in the public cloud triopoly after AWS and Microsoft, it was heavily incentivized to “lead by example” — if… Source link

Shares of Target (TGT) are trading higher on Tuesday as the company posted its fourth quarter earnings, easily beating Wall Street expectations on both the top and bottom lines. The company also revealed adjusted net earnings jumped 57.8% year over year to $1.38 billion. Target COO and CFO Michael Fiddelke joins the Live show alongside Yahoo Finance Executive Editor Brian Sozzi to discuss Target’s performance and how the company has organized its business model and inventories for better… Source link

The S&P 500 (^GSPC) opened lower on Tuesday thanks to a decline in tech stocks and concerns about when the Federal Reserve will start cutting rates. It’s a different story for bitcoin (BTC-USD), however, with the cryptocurrency notching a new all-time high. Alibaba (BABA) shares are on the move. The Chinese internet giant is one of the companies investing in Chinese AI startup MiniMax, according to a report from Bloomberg. Stitch Fix (SFIX) shares are trading lower after posting a… Source link

Over the weekend, reports surfaced that Bronny James, the oldest son of Lakers superstar LeBron James, could elect to stay another year at USC to work on his development and improve his draft stock. Klutch Sports CEO Rich Paul provided some clarity Saturday night and told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski that Bronny’s decision would be based on team interest, not projected draft stock. Bronny has gone through much adversity during his freshman year at USC. He suffered cardiac arrest in August and… Source link

The streaming industry’s password-sharing crackdown has claimed its next victim — Warner Bros. Discovery’s (WBD) Max streaming service. The platform formerly known as HBO Max will begin to restrict the practice later this year, with a wider rollout expected in 2025, Yahoo Finance confirmed. The news, first reported by Bloomberg, comes as media companies face pressure from shareholders to scale their streaming services and make them profitable. Streamers can boost their subscribers by… Source link

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The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) comes into force this week for companies who have been designated. Today, we are sharing some more details about the changes we are making to comply, following product testing we announced earlier this year. The changes that we have made are the result of intensive work over many months from engineers, researchers, product managers and product designers from across the company. Throughout this process, we have engaged extensively with the… Source link

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday outlined changes to search results and new tools for apps developers to promote their products on third-party apps and rival app stores as part of efforts to comply with landmark EU tech rules seeking to curb Big Tech’s power. Designated as gatekeepers controlling millions of users and businesses’ access to their platforms, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta Platforms and TikTok owner ByteDance will have to be compliant with… Source link