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A Google “doodle” is counting down to the Ethereum merge, a sign of recognition from the world’s most popular website. The nod comes as Ethereum’s long-awaited transition to a less energy-intensive proof of stake method of validating transactions is just a few days away: three and a half days, by Google’s count. Typing “ethereum merge” into Google’s search engine now yields a countdown clock, the difficulty rate (the number of times a miner must calculate the hashes in order to… Source link

Google is expanding Maps’ eco-friendly routing mode, rolling the feature out in dozens of European countries and making it even more powerful by letting you pick what type of fuel your car runs on. The feature, originally launched in the US and Canada last year, will highlight routes that use less energy if they have a similar ETA to other alternate routes. Google says that starting today, it is rolling out to users in “nearly 40” European countries, including France, Ireland,… Source link

Live event brings together bug bounty hunters from across the globe A three-day hackathon held by Yahoo last week uncovered hundreds of security bugs in its text search engine tool Vespa. The event, held in Antwerp, Belgium by bug bounty platform Intigriti, saw 40 hackers from across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa hunt for vulnerabilities in the open source tool. There were 218 bug submissions, with payouts totalling $218,121, with the highest… Source link

Yandex N.V., Russia’s leading technology company, on Tuesday said that its Russian operating subsidiary agreed to sell its news aggregator, Zen infotainment service, and homepage to rival Vkontakte (VK), a large Russian social media business. The move will further limit access to independent media. In exchange, Yandex will acquire 100% … Source link

A handful of search engines dominate the market. There is Google Search, which dominates in most regions, Microsoft’s Bing, Baidu and Yandex. Core functionality is shared among the search engines. You may run searches, use some filters, or browse only specific content type results. All these search engines have in common that they generate revenue through advertisement. Privacy-focused search engines started to gain popularity in the wake of 9/11 and the Snowden revelations. Search… Source link

NEW YORK — The term “Googling” may be synonymous with “searching” for things online, but for the group known as Gen Z that might be changing. Nearly 40% of Gen Z members (born from 1997 to 2012, according to the Pew Research Center) prefer TikTok for online searches, according to internal data from Google, which was first reported by TechCrunch. “They don’t have a long attention span; they said that several times,” said Adrienne Sheares, a social media consultant, who formed a Gen Z focus… Source link

An Australian court ruled that Google is a search engine and not a publisher of a defamatory article, siding with the tech giant in a lawsuit on Wednesday morning local time. The big picture: It’s a win for Google in a years-long defamation suit in which the company argued that article hyperlinks “only communicates that something exists…and it is the operator of the webpage who communicates the content to the user.” Driving the news: George Defteros, a lawyer, previously sued Google, arguing… Source link

Google has apologised for a software update issue that caused a major international outage on Tuesday. A spokesperson for the company said the team had “worked quickly” to address the fault and services were back running as normal. “We’re aware of a software update issue that occurred late this afternoon Pacific Time and briefly affected availability of Google search and Maps,” they said. “We apologise for the inconvenience. We worked to quickly address the issue and our services… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Responsive Search Ads take center stage – are you prepared?  Search Engine Land Source link

Broken Ethernet cable is seen in front of Google logo in this illustration taken March 11, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register July 22 (Reuters) – Russian-backed separatists in a breakaway region of eastern Ukraine have blocked access to the search engine Google (GOOGL.O), their leader said on Friday, citing what he calls “disinformation”. In a message posted on his Telegram channel, Denis Pushilin, head of the self-proclaimed… Source link