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Google confirms it’s restricting Gemini election queries globally

Google confirms it’s restricting Gemini election queries globally

If you want to ask Google’s AI chatbot a question about an upcoming election, you will have to do it from a country where there are no elections taking place. TechCrunch has learned that the search giant has started to restrict queries made Gemini when they relate to elections, in any market globally where elections are taking place. The search giant confirmed to TechCrunch that it started rolling out the restrictions on Gemini to limit surfacing answers about… Source link

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Wordle was Google’s top trending search term globally in 2022 • TechCrunch

Wordle was Google’s top trending search term globally in 2022 • TechCrunch

Google has released its annual “Year in Search” report outlining the top searches of 2022 around the world. The report reveals that popular online game Wordle topped the list globally. Searches for the game peaked in February, shortly after it was acquired by The New York Times. The second most searched term of the year was “India vs England” due to the two countries facing off at the Cricket World Cup. The third most searched term was Ukraine. Ukraine also… Source link

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Google begins rolling out ads in YouTube Shorts globally – TechCrunch

Google begins rolling out ads in YouTube Shorts globally – TechCrunch

Google is starting to gradually roll out ads in YouTube Shorts around the world, the company announced at its Marketing Live event this week. The official launch comes as the company has been experimenting with ads in YouTube Shorts since last year. Starting this week, video action campaigns and app campaigns will automatically scale to YouTube Shorts. The company says later this year, advertisers will be able to connect their product feed to their campaigns and… Source link

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Honor 50 launches globally for €529, complete with Google apps and services

The Honor 50 is releasing globally with prices starting at €529, the former Huawei sub-brand announced today. The smartphone was originally announced for the Chinese market in June, but today sees the company confirm its global pricing and its early November release date. For €529 (about $615), you get 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, and there’s also a €599 (about $695) model with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Honor says the phone will be available in over 40 countries, but… Source link

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Higher taxes are necessary to invest and compete globally: US Commerce Secretary

Corporate tax increases are necessary for the U.S. to better compete globally, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told Yahoo Finance Live in an interview. House Democrats are out with a proposal to raise the tax rate on companies with income of at least $5 million to 26.5%.  “If American business is going to compete, we need these investments,” Raimondo said. “And then the question is, how do you pay for them. I don’t know any business leader who thinks that it would be… Source link

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Basketball talent ‘has been democratized’ globally : NBA Deputy Commissioner

The U.S. men’s national basketball team got a reality check on the road to Olympic gold this week, losing two consecutive exhibition games against Nigeria and Australia. But for Mark Tatum, the deputy commissioner and chief operating officer of the NBA, those defeats marked a victory of sorts, in the league’s decades long quest to internationalize the game of basketball. “The world is getting better, and I think that makes basketball a much more attractive game for the world to… Source link

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Experts Share Their Tips As Google’s Insights Page Rolls Out Globally

Google Ads’ Insights Page has officially rolled out to all advertisers globally. The Insights Page was initially launched in November 2020 as a beta. What Is the Insights Page? Google’s Insights Page is designed to help advertisers stay on top of consumer search behavior and to act on those trends. The Insight Page is customized with data specific to the advertisers’ account and includes trending data alongside recommendations data that suggests actions that the advertiser take in lieu of… Source link

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How Australia put Google on the back foot globally

To Google it began as a niggle in a small, far-off market: a public inquiry by Australia’s competition commission into Big Tech and the media. But four years on, Australia is at the vanguard of a global regulatory fightback that threatens to reset the terms of trade between tech platforms and the news media, and more importantly for Google, to erode fundamental pillars of the internet that helped it thrive.  Australia’s parliament is closing in on a statutory code that… Source link

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