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Neeva, an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google’s advertising tech business, is about to land in Europe. The Mountain View, California-based company officially launched a subscription-only search engine in its domestic U.S. market in June last year, later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. In the intervening months, Neeva said it has amassed more than 600,000… Source link

Neeva, an ad-free search engine launched last year by a former engineer and executive best known for spearheading Google’s advertising tech business, is about to land in Europe. The Mountain View, California-based company officially launched a subscription-only search engine in its domestic U.S. market in June last year, later going on to add a free “basic” tier to the mix with certain restrictions in place. In the intervening months, Neeva said it has amassed more than 600,000… Source link

Between countless apps and communication channels, the digital workplace is not always easy to navigate, and it may be costing companies millions.  According to software company Salesforce, 86% of executives and employees point to ineffective collaboration and communication as the main causes behind workplace failures. In fact, poor communication costs big employers with 100,000 employees $62.4 million a year in job errors and productivity loss. But in an era of remote work, where… Source link

When Ashley Storino wants a new pair of black boots or book recommendations, she knows what gets results – and it isn’t Google. No blue links for this 22-year-old digital marketer. Rather than wade through pages of search results, she opens TikTok instead, quickly scans video after video and checks the comments to make sure she can trust the content. Only when she knows precisely what she’s looking for does she turn to Google first.  “Let’s say I want to find the best mascara…. Source link

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