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Photo: Andrey Popov/stock.adobe.com South Korea has issued its largest privacy fines ever to Google and Meta, parent company of the massively popular social apps Instagram and Facebook. Google and Meta are to pay up $50 million and $22 million, respectively. In a statement, the Personal Informational Protection Commission said that Google and Meta did not clearly inform users or obtain their consent as they collected information about their online… Source link

In a Google office hours hangout, Googlers answer the question of whether or not to try ranking for zero search volume keywords. The person asking the question noted that they’re ranking for keywords that have zero search volume and whether they should target those for ranking purposes. They asked: “Let’s say I research on a keyword which has no volume or keyword density, but we are appearing for those keywords on the first page. Should we target that keyword?” A Googler identifying… Source link

Google has announced it will begin rolling out a new HTTPS report in Search Console.  The announcement came via Google’s Search Central Blog and indicated the search engine expects the launch process to take a few months. “One of the common requests we heard from you was to provide more information regarding the HTTPS status of the site and make it easier to understand which pages are not served over HTTPS, and why not,” Google said in the blog. This new report will show how many… Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, speaking at the Code Conference last week, suggested the tech company needed to become 20% more efficient — a comment some in the industry took to mean headcount reductions could soon be on the table. Now, it seems that prediction may be coming true. TechCrunch has learned and Google confirmed the company is slashing projects at its in-house R&D division known as Area 120. The company on Tuesday informed staff of a “reduction in force” which will see the… Source link

As consumer social apps shift their focus to video for social expression and adopt more creative tools, like those for collage-making, Google Photos’ often more utilitarian app will now do the same. The company today announced an upgrade to Google Photos and its app for mobile devices that will better highlight users’ videos, create visual effects with photos set to music, introduce its own collage editor, and more. The additions are a part of a larger upgrade to Google Photos’… Source link

Google’s appeal against a €4.34 billion antitrust fine handed down by the European Union four years ago, after the bloc’s competition regulator found major violations in how it operated its Android mobile OS, has not succeeded in overturning the decision: The EU’s General Court largely confirmed the Commission’s decision in a ruling issued today. It’s a much needed win for the EU which has had a number of its antitrust decision unpicked by the courts in recent years. Reached… Source link

Global efforts to crimp the power of the world’s largest technology companies scored an important legal victory on Wednesday when a European Union court gave its blessing to a record multibillion-dollar fine issued against Google in 2018. The decision, by the General Court in Luxembourg, provides fresh momentum to European regulators who have investigated companies like Google, Amazon and Apple for anticompetitive business practices. The fine of 4.34 billion euros (worth $5.1 billion in… Source link

Global efforts to crimp the power of the world’s largest technology companies scored an important legal victory on Wednesday when a European Union court gave its blessing to a record multibillion-dollar fine issued against Google in 2018. The decision, by the General Court in Luxembourg, provides fresh momentum to European regulators who have investigated companies like Google, Amazon and Apple for anticompetitive business practices. The fine of 4.34 billion euros (worth $5.1 billion in… Source link

Google’s John Mueller answered the question if Google penalizes sites that are nearly identical. Mueller used examples of different levels of similarity between sites and suggested which one to avoid. Will Google Rank Sites that Look the Same? The question asked was about whether two sites that look similar could still rank in Google search. There was no mention as to whether the content was similar but John also included that scenario into his answer. This is the question that was… Source link

Google (GOOGL) suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court fined it 4.125 billion euros ($4.13 billion) for using its Android mobile operating system to thwart rivals, offering a precedent for other regulators to ratchet up pressure. The unit of US tech giant Alphabet had challenged an earlier ruling, but the decision was broadly upheld by the Europe’s second-highest court in Wednesday’s… Source link