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
Read More »Would you pay for an advertisement-free search engine?
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
Read More »Gen Z is bypassing Google for TikTok as a search engine
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
Read More »Australian court rules Google not publisher but search engine
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
Read More »Google outage: tech giant apologises after software update causes search engine to go down | Google
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
Read More »Responsive Search Ads take center stage – are you prepared? – Search Engine Land
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Read More »Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine block Google search engine
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
Read More »Global Analysis on Search Engine Market With Google, Baidu, Bing, Yahoo!, Yandex| Company Business Analysis, Industry Synopsis, Business Outlook 2022 to 2027
“ A2Z Market Research published new research report on Global Search Engine Market covering the micro-level of analysis by competitors and key business segments (2022-2027). The Global Search Engine market report explores a comprehensive study on various segments like opportunities, size, development, innovation, sales, and overall growth of major players. Search Engine Market research report on the latest developments in the world of Search Engine. Scoured the trade… Source link
Read More »Search Engine Market – A Comprehensive Study by Key Players:Google, Bing, Baidu, Yahoo!, Sogou, Yandex, Naver, Seznam, DuckDuckGo, Alibaba, 360
The report investigates the current status of the Search Engine Market and analyses the future trends of the Search Engine market. The report explores the market opportunities available in the Search Engine market. The report assesses the Search Engine market sourced from the currently available data. The report provides in-depth information of the Search Engine market that helps market players understand and analyse the Search Engine industry in terms of key products and… Source link
Read More »Everyone is Open Sourcing their Language Models, so does this Russian Search Engine
Recently, Russian company Yandex open sourced YaLM 100B, a bilingual neural network for generating and processing text. “By making YaLM 100B publicly available, we hope to give impetus to further developing generative neural networks,” said Petr Popov, CEO of Yandex Technologies. The development comes at a time when several big companies like Meta, Google, and OpenAI have open-sourced some of their large transformer-based models. In early 2021, researchers at Google… Source link
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