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Your Google Fi Plan Might’ve Gotten a Price Increase

Your Google Fi Plan Might’ve Gotten a Price Increase

Notifications are headed out to Google Fi customers this week, informing them of an upcoming change in price for the Simply Unlimited plan. Said to be necessary in order to continue delivering high quality product offerings and features for subscribers, groups of 3 or more on the Simply Unlimited plan will see a price increase of up to $30 for a group of six. Starting with groups of 3, the price increase will be $10/month, bringing the price to $90/month. Account Size: Old Prices vs. New… Source link

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YouTube, Gmail face disruption almost same time as Facebook, Instagram go down: Read Google’s statement

YouTube, Gmail face disruption almost same time as Facebook, Instagram go down: Read Google’s statement

In what can surely be termed as strange or odd service disruption, users of two of the biggest technology companies faced outage almost at the same time on March 5. Many users of Google-owned apps like Gmail and YouTube as well as Meta-owned social networks Facebook, Instagram and Threads faced outage in services. Late evening, some users reported issues with Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, and other Meta services. While Facebook users were greeted with error messages or their… Source link

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New updates to address spam and low-quality results

New updates to address spam and low-quality results

Every day, people turn to Search to find the best of what the web has to offer. We’ve long had policies and automated systems to fight against spammers, and we work to address emerging tactics that look to game our results with low-quality content. We regularly update those policies and systems to effectively tackle these trends so we can continue delivering useful content and connecting people with high-quality websites. Today we’re announcing key changes we’re making to improve the… Source link

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Google’s new ranking systems are designed to stop spam, SEO, and other manipulative tactics

Google’s new ranking systems are designed to stop spam, SEO, and other manipulative tactics

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.

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Google worker slams exec of ‘powering genocide’ over Israel ties

Google worker slams exec of ‘powering genocide’ over Israel ties

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

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AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers

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

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Complying with the Digital Markets Act

Complying with the Digital Markets Act

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

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Google rolls out changes for users, apps developers as EU tech rules loom

Google rolls out changes for users, apps developers as EU tech rules loom

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

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Over 600 Google Workers Urge the Company to Cut Ties With Israeli Tech Conference

Over 600 Google Workers Urge the Company to Cut Ties With Israeli Tech Conference

More than 600 Google workers and counting have signed a letter addressed to Google marketing leadership demanding that it drop its sponsorship of Mind the Tech, an annual conference promoting the Israeli tech industry taking place in New York this week. “Please withdraw from Mind the Tech, issue an apology, and stand with Googlers and customers who are despairing over the overwhelming loss of life in Gaza; we need Google to do better,” reads the letter, which was seen by WIRED. The two-day… Source link

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Google removes sponsored ads from Stanley Steemer Florida imposters

Google removes sponsored ads from Stanley Steemer Florida imposters

Two days after a WPBF 25 Investigation into a company allegedly posing as a Stanley Steemer franchise, Google said it has suspended the imposter company’s sponsored ads.Tom Scalera, President of Stanley Steemer of South Florida, told WPBF 25 last week that another company was fooling customers by placing sponsored ads on Google right under his ads, and then when people called the wrong number by accident, the other company said they were Stanley Steemer.So Scalera complained to Google… Source link

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