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Search engine start-ups try to take on Google

A new batch of search engine start-ups positioning themselves as potential rivals to Google is hoping that growing regulatory pressure will finally reverse two decades of the search giant’s dominance. The latest challengers include Neeva, launched by two former Google executives, and You.com, founded by Salesforce.com’s former chief scientist, as well as Mojeek, a UK-based start-up with growing ambitions to build its own index of billions of web pages. Though their odds… Source link

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Google Hit With Antitrust Lawsuit As 35 States Challenge Search Engine – Deadline

Google was hit with another antitrust lawsuit on Thursday, as 35 states other other U.S. territories claim that the internet giant has stifled competition in its dominance of web search. “As the gateway to the internet, Google has systematically degraded the ability of other companies to access consumers,” the lawsuit states. “In doing so, just as Microsoft improperly maintained its monopoly through conduct directed at Netscape, Google has improperly maintained and extended its… Source link

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Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take on Google – TechCrunch

Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix consumer search and today he announced you.com, a new search engine to take on the mighty Google. “We are building you.com. You can already go to it today. And it’s a trusted search engine. We want to work on having more click trust and less clickbait on the internet,”… Source link

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You don’t need a search engine to see why Google won’t lose this lawsuit | John Naughton | Opinion

So, in the dying days of Trump’s first term, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has finally taken Google to court. Attorney general William Barr, in conjunction with the AGs of 11 states, has filed a 58-page complaint under the Sherman Act “to restrain Google LLC (Google) from unlawfully maintaining monopolies in the markets for general search services, search advertising and general search text advertising in the United States through anticompetitive and exclusionary practices, and to… Source link

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MoFo Accused of ‘Skullduggery’ in Divorce of Google Search Engine Programmer

Photo by Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM. The wife of Scott Hassan, robotics entrepreneur and principal programmer of the Google search engine, is suing Morrison & Foerster for being a “willing architect and facilitator” of Hassan’s scheme to “cheat” her out of millions of dollars after she filed for divorce in 2015. Want to continue reading?Become a Free ALM Digital Reader. Benefits of a Digital Membership: Free access… Source link

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Google’s John Mueller: “Search is Not a Science” – Search Engine Journal

Google’s John Mueller advises SEOs not to look at search ranking as an exact science with an absolute right or wrong way of doing things. Mueller spoke at length on this subject in episode three of Google’s Search Off the Record podcast. Accompanied by Gary Illyes and Martin Splitt, also from Google, Mueller discusses the flaws he sees peoples’ attitude toward ranking factors. Here are some highlights from the Google Search team’s discussion on search rankings. John Mueller on Ranking… Source link

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Google Launches the First NVIDIA Ampere A100 GPUs in the Cloud with Computing Engine A2 VMs

In a recent blog post, Google announced the introduction of the Accelerator-Optimized VM (A2) family on Google Compute Engine, based on the NVIDIA Ampere A100 Tensor Core GPU. A2 provides up to 16 GPUs in a single VM and is the first A100-based offering in the public cloud. Google designed the A2-family of VMs to boost training and inference computing performance for its customers. The A2 features the NVIDIA A-100 Tensor Core graphics processing unit based up the newly NVIDIA… Source link

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