Tag Archives: Search

Google is changing how its Android search engine choice screen works in Europe, following complaints from rivals about its pay-to-play model, the company has announced in a blog post. The selection screen appears for users when they first set up an Android device, and is designed to offer a choice of search engines after Google was hit by a record $5 billion antitrust fine in 2018. From September, the search giant is making it free for search engines to be included, and is increasing the… Source link

 SOPA Images | Contributor | Getty Images LONDON — Google said Tuesday that it will stop charging a fee for search engines to appear in a list of default search engines on Android that’s exclusive to European users. The so-called “choice screen” was introduced by Google in 2019 in response to a record $5 billion antitrust fine from the European Union targeting anti-competitive practices in its smartphone software. Search engines would have to take part in blind auctions in which they bid to… Source link

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has filed a lawsuit asking a court to declare Google a public utility that should be regulated as such. “Google uses its dominance of internet search to steer Ohioans to Google’s own products – that’s discriminatory and anti-competitive,” Yost said in a statement. “When you own the railroad or the electric company or the cellphone tower, you have to treat everyone the same and give everybody access.” The lawsuit, filed in Delaware County Common Pleas… Source link

Google is ditching a massively unpopular auction format that underpins an choice screen it offers in the European Union, it said today. Eligible search providers will be able to freely participate. The auction model was Google’s ‘remedy’ of choice — following the 2018 EU $5BN antitrust enforcement against Android — but rivals have always maintained it’s anything but fair, as we’ve reported previously (here, here, here, for eg). The Android choice screen presents users in… Source link

The logo of Google is seen on a building at La Defense business and financial district in Courbevoie near Paris, France, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Charles Platiau Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google has bowed to pressure from rivals and will let them compete for free to be the default search engines on Android devices in Europe, widening a pledge to EU antitrust regulators two years ago. The move by the world’s most popular internet search engine comes as the 27-country bloc considers rules that… Source link

Google often uses its annual developer conference, I/O, to showcase artificial intelligence with a wow factor. In 2016, it introduced the Google Home smart speaker with Google Assistant. In 2018, Duplex debuted to answer calls and schedule appointments for businesses. In keeping with that tradition, last month CEO Sundar Pichai introduced LaMDA, AI “designed to have a conversation on any topic.” In an onstage demo, Pichai demonstrated what it’s like to converse with a paper airplane… Source link

Google’s search engine is one of the wonders of the technological world. Think about it–the way we use the internet and access information would be dramatically different if we had to manually visit websites one at a time and sift through content to find information. Most of the time, most of us wouldn’t even know where to start. Instead, in a fraction of a second, you can type in a query and Google will give you a list of results–in a ranked order–that it thinks are a match for what… Source link

The future of search is a conversation — at least, according to Google. It’s a pitch the company has been making for years, and it was the centerpiece of last week’s I/O developer conference. There, the company demoed two “groundbreaking” AI systems — LaMDA and MUM — that it hopes, one day, to integrate into all its products. To show off its potential, Google had LaMDA speak as the dwarf planet Pluto, answering questions about the celestial body’s environment and its… 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

Larger publishers seem to appear more often in search results, sometimes multiple times in the response to a single query. But is it an unfair advantage? See how single companies perform against large publishing conglomerates today. Do Large Publishers Have an Unfair Advantage in Google Search? A client asked recently if we could report a competitor for double-serving in organic search results. (If you’re not familiar with this Google Ads policy, it prohibits a company from trying to gain an… Source link