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The TikTok threat to Google’s business isn’t just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps, are also being impacted by a growing preference for social media and videos as the first stop on younger users’ path to discovery, a Google exec acknowledged today, speaking at an industry event. Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan, who runs Google’s Knowledge & Information organization, referenced the popular social apps in a broader… Source link

All Hail the hot dog king. Joey Chestnut won his seventh consecutive Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest title and 15th overall with a ridiculous 63 hot dogs and buns eaten in 10 minutes. The next-closest competitor consumed just 43 hot dogs. The 38-year-old Chestnut’s feat was even more impressive after he arrived at Coney Island on crutches. He said he suffered a ruptured tendon earlier in the year but claimed it wouldn’t affected his ability to defend his title. Chestnut’s 15th title surpassed… Source link

Splurging on a night out at a restaurant is coming back in fashion for some, according to a new survey from Evercore ISI. The survey found a COVID-era record 74% of people say they are comfortable eating at a restaurant, above the prior high of 70% last summer. “We believe much of this increase is due to the recent 94% reduction in COVID cases in the U.S. Importantly, COVID fatigue also seems to be impacting comfort levels — comfort is higher than at any point in time since the start of the… Source link

Even after 81 years in existence, the world’s love affair with the magical canned meat product known as Spam is not showing any signs of letting up. The brand’s owner Hormel said on its fourth fiscal quarter earnings call Thursday that sales of Spam capped off their seventh straight record-setting year. And that definitely doesn’t surprise Hormel CEO Jim Snee. “The question is, who is not eating Spam? It’s amazing what we have been able to do over the last seven years,” Snee said on Yahoo… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Google buys photographer’s shot of seagull eating a chip  BBC News Source link

Craig Harker is the landlord of The George Pub and Grill in Stockton-on-Tees. (Reach) A pub landlord has defended describing a competitive eating contest that took place during lockdown as an “elite sport”. The George Pub and Grill in Stockton held an event that saw five “athletes” attempt to eat the world’s hottest chillies on Saturday – two days after national lockdown restrictions in England were imposed. Landlord Craig Harker was hit with a complaint that the event, that was… Source link