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Google Drive Has Widespread Outage

Updated Apr 12, 2021, 11:59am EDT Topline Google is experiencing a widespread disruption with its Google Drive service including Google Docs, the company said Monday, keeping users from opening new documents though they can still access the platform. Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS Key Facts Google reported at 9:30 a.m. Eastern time it was “investigating reports” having to do with Google Drive,… Source link

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Google developing new consumer-facing health records tool: 7 things to know 

Jackie Drees – Monday, April 12th, 2021 Print  | Email Google is in the early stages of a new project that aims to explore and develop a new consumer-facing health records tool for Android users, according to an April 9 STAT report.  Seven things to know:  1. Google launched a user feedback program that aims to assess how patients want to access and share their EHR data. The project could support the development of a medical records tool similar to Apple’s… Source link

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Google Docs and Sheets experienced a partial outage

Multiple Google services experienced a partial outage on Monday, with some users unable to create new documents in Google Docs and Google Sheets. Google’s Workspace Status Dashboard reported that Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Classroom all experienced service disruptions. As of 11:26AM ET Google said that service had been restored for “some users” adding that “we expect a resolution for all users in the near future.” As of 12PM ET, we’ve verified that the issues we were… Source link

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If Blocking a Country’s Traffic, Don’t Block Googlebot

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners to be careful not to block Googlebot if they choose to block traffic from an entire country. Mueller addressed this topic twice over the past week. It came up once during the Google Search Central SEO hangout on April 9, and also came up in a Reddit thread. During the Search Central hangout, a site owner submitted a question asking Mueller about blocking a country where they’re receiving an abundance of bot traffic. Here is Mueller’s advice.

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Google Pixel Watch Leaks With Dazzling Looks To Challenge Apple Watch

Is this a glimpse of the Google Pixel Watch? @rendersbyian Google’s Pixel Watch has been rumored for years, but it looks like it’s really happening this time, if the latest leak is real. MORE FROM FORBESiPad Pro 2021: Images Leak Showing Pro & iPad Mini In Spectacular DetailBy David Phelan Tipster Jon Prosser, in a special edition of his Front Page Tech YouTube show (this time FPT stands for Front Pixel Tech), says that he was handed a lot of different images of the… Source link

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Bug in How Google Detects Soft 404s May Be Causing Traffic Losses

Soft 404 Google Soft 404 Bug Citation Google’s John Mueller answered a question about an ongoing problem on Google’s side related to soft 404 error response code and how it’s handled. It’s because of a change on Google’s side. Soft 404 A 404 error response code is a code that is sent by a web page to the web browser or to Google informing them that the page they were looking for no longer exists. Advertisement Continue Reading Below A server response code known as a 200 Response Code is a… Source link

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Google’s secret ‘Project Bernanke’ revealed in Texas antitrust case

Check out what’s clicking on FoxBusiness.com. Google for years operated a secret program that used data from past bids in the company’s digital advertising exchange to allegedly give its own ad-buying system an advantage over competitors, according to court documents filed in a Texas antitrust lawsuit. The program, known as “Project Bernanke,” wasn’t disclosed to publishers who sold ads through Google’s ad-buying systems. It generated hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for the… Source link

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Google Shares the Most Recent Conversion Tracking Proposals

First-Party vs Third-Party Cookies The Most Recent Measurement Proposals Tracking View-Through Conversions Tracking Cross-Device Conversions Keeping Up To Date With FLoC Earlier this year, Google announced that it would not build or use alternative identifiers to track users in replacement of third-party cookies, which are set to be phased out by 2022. Instead, Google has moved forward with testing Federated Learning Cohorts (FLoC), with the goal of anonymizing individual data within larger… Source link

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Google is shutting down its iOS and Android Shopping apps

GlobeNewswire Life Clips, Inc. Issues CEO Letter to Stockholders, Reports on Outlook for Remainder of 2021 AVENTURA, Fla., April 12, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Life Clips, Inc. (OTC Pink: LCLP) (the “Company”) today announced that Robert Grinberg, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman, has issued a letter to Life Clips’ shareholders. The full text is as follows: To My Fellow Stockholders, Over the course of the last few months, Life Clips, Inc. has made significant progress in… Source link

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Google is shutting down its iOS and Android Shopping apps

Bloomberg Ameriprise to Buy BMO Unit With $124 Billion in Client Funds (Bloomberg) — Bank of Montreal agreed to sell its Europe, Middle East and Africa asset-management unit to Ameriprise Financial Inc. for 615 million pounds ($847 million), marking Chief Executive Officer Darryl White’s biggest move yet to trim the bank’s portfolio of non-core businesses.The sale includes the opportunity for some U.S. clients to move to Ameriprise’s Columbia Threadneedle Investments unit, subject to… Source link

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