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[unable to retrieve full-text content] US accuses Google of ‘driving out’ ad rivals  BBC We’re feeling lucky: Google antitrust lawsuit can set precedent for tech monopolies  Yahoo! Voices DOJ sues Google over its dominance in online advertising market  CNN Source link

Google launched the program last September in response to Republican accusations that the company’s algorithms disproportionately flag conservative fundraising emails as spam. The program allowed candidates, political party committees, and leadership political action committees to sign up with Google to make their messages exempt from the company’s spam detection systems.  “We will keep investing in spam-filtering technologies that protect people from unwanted messages while still… Source link

The U.S. Department of Justice and eight states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google (GOOG, GOOGL) on Tuesday, seeking the breakup of the company’s online ad business. This latest action comes more than two years after the agency and a group of state attorneys general joined in another suit alleging Google’s search and search advertising businesses violate U.S. antitrust laws. The Justice Department’s alleges that Google’s suite of online advertising tools prevents competitors from… Source link

Google has made a couple of tweaks to two of its SEO-related help documentation. The changes include specifying that the title and link elements are most important for the RSS feed follow in Google Discover and that Google parses img elements even within other elements, such as the picture element. Google added a new line to the Get On Discover documentation under the feed guidelines for the Follow feature in Google Discover. Google wrote, “The… Source link

Google is planning to reduce senior executives’ pay as part of a cost-cutting drive that includes laying off 12,000 workers.  Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and its parent Alphabet (ticker: GOOG), said employees at the senior vice president level and above would get lower bonuses, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people who heard the remarks at a companywide meeting on Monday.  Source link

Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced mass layoffs on Friday.Justin Sullivan/Getty Images A Google engineer said he was shocked to find out he was laid off at 3 a.m. on Friday. Chris McDonald told Insider he was locked out of work accounts 20 minutes after reading the notice. He hoped Google’s layoffs were a “wake-up call” to other tech workers who were still in their jobs. A Google engineer who was recently laid off said he was locked out of the company’s online system 20 minutes after finding out… Source link

Illustration: Allie Carl/Axios Google is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee accusing the tech giant of bias in its handling of email, as it ends a pilot program that allowed senders of campaign emails to bypass users’ spam folders, per a filing seen by Axios. Why it matters: Conservatives remain angry with Google, which they believe has unfairly marked their campaign messages as spam, and they now control one house of Congress. Driving the news: Google’s motion… Source link

Elon Musk said Google had a “standing interest in buying Tesla” in testimony in the securities fraud trial. The Tesla CEO said this helped encourage him to try to secure funds to take the EV maker private. According to a 2015 book, Musk and former Google CEO Larry Page had an $11 billion deal in place for Tesla.   … Source link

Last month, Google added end-to-end encryption support for RCS group chats in the Messages app. Google has focused on improving the default messaging experience for Android users in recent months and Google Messages now may be gearing up to add the ability to support user profiles in the Google Messages app. As per a screenshot posted in a Reddit post by u/seeareeff, Google may begin adding user profiles to Google Messages. The screenshot contains a page in the app’s settings called… Source link

Apparently, Google’s Clock 7.4 update gets rid of the swipe buttons to snooze and silence the alarm and switches them out for buttons. The Google Clock app is getting another update, this time, making it easier to silence your alarm. The new update, which comes as version 7.4, is rolling out now and changes some of the UI elements for the better. Google Clock 7.4 swaps out the slide to snooze or slide to stop the alarm for buttons that need to be pressed…. Source link