Google’s Mueller was asked a question about using Google Translate to create content in another language. He suggested there may be a quality issue and expanded his answer to reframe the issue as being about spam. Is Content Created With Google Translate Considered Duplicate? The person asking the question first said that he wanted to convert an English language site to German and asked if there would be any problems related to duplicate content. The first question: “…I have an English… Source link
Read More »Yandex, “Russia’s Google”, buys online fashion retailer KupiVIP
Yandex, the so-called ‘Google of Russia’, has announced it has agreed to buy online fashion retailer KupiVIP. The deal will be completed after the summer. Yandex will buy and then integrate online clothing store KupiVIP into Yandex.Market, the company said in a statement Monday. The deal should be completed in the third quarter of this year, once it gets approval of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Yandex said. According to the statement, the deal will allow Yandex.Market to… Source link
Read More »Google Photo users: You may soon have to pay to store your photos, videos
by: Addy Bink, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: May 31, 2021 / 10:33 PM EDT / Updated: May 31, 2021 / 10:33 PM EDT FILE – This Sept. 24, 2019, file photo shows a sign on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google was quickly negotiating generous deals with big and small Australian media companies to pay for news as the Parliament considers forcing digital giants into such remuneration agreements, a minister said on Wednesday,… Source link
Read More »Google Photo users: You may soon have to pay to store your photos, videos
by: Addy Bink, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: May 31, 2021 / 04:15 PM CDT / Updated: May 31, 2021 / 04:15 PM CDT FILE – This Sept. 24, 2019, file photo shows a sign on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google was quickly negotiating generous deals with big and small Australian media companies to pay for news as the Parliament considers forcing digital giants into such remuneration agreements, a minister said on Wednesday,… Source link
Read More »How bad is Google Photos’ compression anyway?
Google Photos has long offered one of the best deals in all of photo storage: it’ll back up your entire library for free, so long as it can compress the images a bit. But as of tomorrow, June 1st, that deal goes away, and you’re now eating through Google storage (which you may have to pay for) whether your images are compressed or not. With the change looming, I’ve been wondering how bad Google’s compression actually is. Does the compression leave my photos in “High Quality,”… Source link
Read More »Google Photos unlimited free storage going away
(ABC4) – If you use Google Photos be prepared – you may have to start paying to store your photos and videos. Starting Tuesday, June 1, you will only have 15 GB of free storage to use. If you need more space, it will cost you. Get Utah’s latest news sent to your inbox! Click here to subscribe to the free ABC4 daily newsletter. In November, Google announced the change to its photo service, saying more than 4 trillion photos are stored within it, with 28 billion new… Source link
Read More »Google goes gray and adds flag
Google is paying tribute to Memorial Day with its latest Google Doodle. On Monday, the search giant updated its homepage to feature a gray Doodle and an American flag. When you click on the flag or the Google logo, it takes you to search results for Memorial Day. How Google looks on your computer or device can vary based on settings. The federal holiday commemorates military personnel who died in service. It also is considered the unofficial start to summer and is a popular day for a… Source link
Read More »Google Photos ends unlimited free storage tomorrow. Here’s everything you need to do
Google is ending its unlimited free storage policy June 1. Sarah Tew/CNET Google Photos will end its unlimited free Source link
Read More »Check out how Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri compare
Question: How does Google Assistant compare to Siri when it comes to using voice commands? Answer: The ability to use your voice to control devices is one of the biggest arms races in the tech sector at the moment. Voice recognition technology has come a long way from the early Bell Labs research in the 1950s that could only recognize 10 spoken digits. Voice recognition programs that touted a 90% accuracy rate started to appear in the ’90s, which sounded great until we realized that every… Source link
Read More »Mueller Touches on Google Sandbox and Honeymoon Ranking Effects
Google’s John Mueller answered why new content sometimes pops into the search results ranking high then drops off. John explained what Google does with new content and how that explains the Sandbox and Honeymoon phenomenon that the SEO community has been talking about for decades. The Google Sandbox In the early 2000s some publishers noticed that new content sometimes took months or even longer before it started ranking. It seemed as if new content was not being trusted and not allowed to… Source link
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