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Google Search Advocate John Mueller said, “search is never guaranteed,” in response to a site owner asking why their content isn’t indexed. In the r/TechSEO forum on Reddit, a user is dissatisfied that a website re-publishing identical content is getting indexed faster. The Reddit user posts a thread asking if they can use the Indexing API to brute force their way into Google’s index. Mueller shoots that idea down, saying the Indexing API is reserved for specific types of content,… Source link

Comment on this story Comment For the first time since its 2016 launch, Google Assistant is getting parental controls. You might think the chatty virtual assistant, which the company says is used by 700 million people a month, already had some. For years Google has allowed parents to grant children Assistant access by way of its Family Link app, but offered relatively few restrictions. In the next few weeks, when these tools land on a smart speaker, screen or clock near you, you’ll be able to… Source link

Comment on this story Comment When people open Google.com, the tech company’s Doodle team has a few seconds to hook a visitor into engaging with their games, illustrations or historical facts. This Halloween, Google is inviting people to play an online multiplayer game akin to arcade and classic phone game “Snake.” Like “Snake,” the new Google Doodle lets players move across a map, amassing pixels that follow their character and grow longer. To join, anyone can click on the Doodle to… Source link

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Our story “How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World” found that, despite Google’s public commitments… Source link

Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The company has publicly committed to fighting disinformation around the world, but a ProPublica analysis, the first ever conducted at this scale, documented how Google’s sprawling automated digital ad operation placed ads… Source link

Even Alphabet, the parent company of Google and one of the internet’s most entrenched businesses, was not immune to the punishing blows of the global economy and a sharp slowdown in the online advertising that is essential to the company’s profits. Alphabet on Tuesday reported a net profit of $13.9 billion in the third quarter, down 27 percent from a year earlier, while revenue climbed 6 percent to $69.1 billion. The earnings fell short of analysts’ estimates of $16.9 billion in profit… Source link

A cryptocurrency price crash and the onset of a new so-called “crypto winter” has left many companies in the industry facing a liquidity crisis. Artur Widak | Nurphoto | Getty Images Not even Google is immune from the Crypto winter. In Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings call on Tuesday, Philipp Schindler, Google’s chief business officer, blamed a slowdown in revenue growth in part on reduced ad spending by cypto companies and other financial firms. “In the third quarter, we did see a pullback in… Source link

New York CNN Business  —  Google may be the giant in the digital advertising world, but even it is not immune to the impact that the economic downturn and recession fears are having on the online ad market. Google parent company Alphabet (GOOGL) on Tuesday reported earnings results for the third quarter that fell short of Wall Street analysts’ estimates for both sales and profits,… Source link

About four years ago, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence by the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. It was a powerful perch. Congress tasked the new group with a broad mandate: to advise the U.S. government on how to advance the development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and other technologies to enhance the national security of the United States. The mandate was simple: Congress directed the new… Source link

Earlier this month, Google Cloud announced its latest venture within the realm of healthcare: a new Medical Imaging Suite. This initiative builds on years of hard work by the Google Cloud team, aimed at creating a universally friendly, efficient, and value-providing platform, with an ode to interoperability and accessibility. The applications behind the platform are multi-fold: Imaging Storage: the Suite will enable a more comprehensive way to store and access advanced medical imaging … Source link