Tag Archives: Google

PHOTO: Eric BVD Google made some announcements that marketers should take note at its Google I/O developer’s conference last week. The announcements include advancements from the search engine giant in the arenas of AI and machine learning, search engines, connecting users with apps and ecommerce and shopping. Let’s dive into some of the updates in more detail. LaMDA Brings Search Changes for Marketers Google unveiled LaMDA, short for “Language Model for Dialogue Applications,”… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Russia threatens to slow down Google over ‘banned content’  BBC News Source link

Google’s Martin Splitt answered a question about what to do about third party must-have functionalities in the form of apps and plugins and whether Google would give publishers a Core Web Vitals break since those apps were made by a third party. Loren Baker asked a question that discussed the issue of publishers who need marketing and sales related functionalities on their sites that tend to slow down the web page and contribute to poor core web vitals scoring. The example used was of a… Source link

A sign is pictured outside a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/File Photo Germany’s antitrust watchdog launched a probe into whether Google Germany, Google Ireland and its parent company Alphabet (GOOGL.O) are exploiting their market dominance, it said on Tuesday. The cartel office said the investigation will consider whether the tech giant offers users enough choice in how it uses their data. Our Standards: The… Source link

Google has added a way to put a password on your Web and Activity page, which shows all your activity from across Google services, including your searches, YouTube watch history, and Google assistant queries (via Android Police). Without the verification, anyone who picks up a device you’re logged into could see that activity. To activate the verification, you can go to activity.google.com, and click the Manage My Activity verification link. From there, you can select the Require Extra… Source link

Google’s Martin Splitt explains to site owners why their Page Experience report in Search Console may not be populated with data. A question regarding lack of Page Experience data in Search Console was asked during Splitt’s live appearance on the Search Engine Journal Today show. SEJ Founder Loren Baker tells Splitt that SEOs and site owners are concerned they’re not seeing data in Search Console, despite their site testing well for Core Web Vitals and other Page Experience factors. What… Source link

Are you planning to stick with Google Photos when its free unlimited storage disappears on June 1st? If you’re anything like me, you’re probably still struggling to figure out whether you can afford to procrastinate that decision a little bit longer — and today, Google has made that reckoning a little bit easier. First off, the company’s finally telling it like it is: Google will no longer pretend its compressed, lower-quality photos and videos are “High quality,” something… Source link

Google is adding new data to Search Console to help site owners track the appearance of practice problems and math solvers rich results. Practice problems and math solvers structured data markup was introduced in March to help sites take advantage of the rise in educational searches brought on by students learning from home. Google says practice content and math assistance are among the most requested types of information from students. Practice problems refers to material that helps learners… Source link

The logo for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen at the SIBOS banking and financial conference in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 19, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Helgren Israel’s government said on Monday it had signed a deal with Amazon Web Services (AWS) (AMZN.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for the country’s public sector and military. A month ago, AWS and Google won a tender, beating out Microsoft (MSFT.O), Oracle (ORCL.N) and IBM (IBM.N) for… Source link

The Google logo is seen on on the company’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland, February 27, 2021. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne Russia’s communications watchdog on Monday gave Google (GOOGL.O) 24 hours to delete what it called prohibited content or be fined and said Moscow could eventually slow down the company’s traffic in the country. Russia has already placed a punitive slowdown on U.S. social network Twitter (TWTR.N) for not deleting banned content, part of a push by Moscow to rein in… Source link