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Google Search has been caught up in a massive tidal wave of generative AI garbage. It’s starting to look like an unrecognizable heap of spam, meaningless search engine optimization (SEO) filler, and dubiously sourced news. “It’s the worst quality results on Google I’ve seen in my 14-year career,” eminent SEO expert Lily Ray told Fortune. Instead of filtering out scams, Google is seemingly bowing to the pressure and is instead promoting them. “Right now, it feels like the scammers are… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Federal judge vows to investigate Google for intentionally destroying chats  The Verge Source link

Cybersecurity startup Oversecured reported vulnerabilities in the Google Android app, which could’ve … [+] allowed a hacker to steal sensitive data and snoop on users through the smartphone’s camera. (Photo by Nasir Kachroo/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images Google’s Android app, with more than 5 billion downloads, has been patched after a researcher found it was vulnerable to an attack that could have allowed hackers to obtain sensitive data from users’… Source link

Google’s Sundar Pichai faced an awkward line of enquiry during today’s House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing related to its 2007 acquisition of adtech platform DoubleClick, and how it went on to renege on an original promise to lawmakers and regulators that it would not (nor could not) merge DoubleClick data with Google account data — automagically doing just that almost a decade later. By linking internet users’ browsing data, as harvested via the DoubleClick cookie, to… Source link