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ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Young people are increasingly using TikTok as a search engine, utilizing the social media platform’s powerful algorithm to provide them with the personalized information they want, reports the New York Times. And Google has noticed. “In our studies, something like almost 40% of young people, when they’re looking for a place for lunch, they don’t go to Google Maps or Search. They go to TikTok or Instagram,” Prabhakar Raghavan, a Google senior vice president,… Source link

KABUL: The Afghan government is set to ban video-sharing platform TikTok and online multi-player game PUBG within the next three months, an official confirmed on Tuesday, following a string of bans on content deemed immoral since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year. The Taliban announced a ban on both popular apps earlier this year, with the group’s Spokesman Inamullah Samangani saying in April that the move was necessary to “prevent the younger generation from being… Source link

When Ashley Storino wants a new pair of black boots or book recommendations, she knows what gets results – and it isn’t Google. No blue links for this 22-year-old digital marketer. Rather than wade through pages of search results, she opens TikTok instead, quickly scans video after video and checks the comments to make sure she can trust the content. Only when she knows precisely what she’s looking for does she turn to Google first.  “Let’s say I want to find the best mascara…. Source link

NEW YORK — The term “Googling” may be synonymous with “searching” for things online, but for the group known as Gen Z that might be changing. Nearly 40% of Gen Z members (born from 1997 to 2012, according to the Pew Research Center) prefer TikTok for online searches, according to internal data from Google, which was first reported by TechCrunch. “They don’t have a long attention span; they said that several times,” said Adrienne Sheares, a social media consultant, who formed a Gen Z focus… Source link

Signage in a wooded area featuring a Google logo, at the Googleplex, headquarters of the search … [+] engine company Google in the Silicon Valley town of Mountain View, California, August 24, 2016. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images). Getty Images When you’re looking for a great Italian food restaurant in your neighborhood, you might think about making a quick Google search. But, at Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech conference, Prabhakar Raghavan, a Senior Vice… Source link

The TikTok threat to Google’s business isn’t just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps, are also being impacted by a growing preference for social media and videos as the first stop on younger users’ path to discovery, a Google exec acknowledged today, speaking at an industry event. Senior Vice President Prabhakar Raghavan, who runs Google’s Knowledge & Information organization, referenced the popular social apps in a broader… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. App Annie says global spending across iOS and Google Play is up to $135 billion in 2021, and that figure will likely be higher when its… Source link

A federal official issued a new warning to Apple and Google, urging the tech giants to remove China-based app TikTok from their app stores. In a letter addressed to Apple CEO Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr cited a new report from Buzzfeed News about the “serious national security threats posed by TikTok.” The report, which analyzed leaked audio from more than 80 internal TikTok meetings, found… Source link

Placeholder while article actions load A U.S. Federal Communications commissioner is calling on Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores over concerns that user data from the wildly popular social media platform is being accessed in China. In a tweet Wednesday, FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr shared a letter addressed to Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai, the chief executives of Apple and Google parent Alphabet, respectively. He raised concerns over TikTok’s Chinese ownership, saying… Source link

A member of the Federal Communications Commission has asked Google and Apple to remove TikTok from their app stores, citing concerns that the popular Chinese-owned video app could send American data back to Beijing. In a letter to the companies released on Tuesday, Brendan Carr, a Republican commissioner, said that he believed “TikTok’s pattern of conduct and misrepresentations regarding the unfettered access that persons in Beijing have to sensitive U.S. user data” violated Apple and… Source link