Tag Archives: Update

Today is the first Monday of the month, so you know what that means, right? It’s time for Google’s monthly update to go out to Pixel smartphones left and right. This time around, the new software comes with “further improvements” for auto-brightness response in certain lighting conditions for the Pixel 4a, 4a 5G, and 5, and “further improvements for auto-rotation response in certain device orientations” for all of the Pixels that are still supported. Aside from these, you’re also… Source link

Just when everyone was prepping up for the holiday chill, Google gave an early Christmas “present”. 3rd December marked an official roll out of Google’s core update for the year 2020. This was followed seven months after the last broad core update which was on May 4, 2020. SearchLiaison’s tweet confirmed the same, and it is expected to reach full third core update by end of this year. ‘Danny Sullivan says that the December core update did not have anything to do directly… Source link

Google Home can now perform an action in the future — up to seven days from now, according to Google. Dale Smith/CNET … Source link

Five search marketers contributed opinions on Google’s December 2020 Core Update. The observations offer interesting feedback on what may have happened. In my opinion, Google updates have increasingly been less about ranking factors and more about improving how queries and web pages are understood. Some have offered the opinion that Google is randomizing search results in order to fool those who try to reverse engineer Google’s algorithm. I don’t share that opinion. Certain algorithm… Source link

After three years of support, the Pixel 2 has received its last update from Google: a delayed November security patch going out to the devices this month, as noted by Android Central. Google’s device support schedule indicates that the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL aren’t guaranteed security updates after October 2020. Google announced the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL in October 2017. The two devices were identical in every way except size, and they earned plenty of praise for their somewhat… Source link

Actress Jennifer Garner, 48, posted a hilarious recreation of a steamy swimming pool scene from the television show “Alias.” (Photo: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic) Jennifer Garner thanked her social media followers for helping her reach the 10 million mark by recreating a sexy bikini scene from her hit television show Alias. The actress, 48, took to Instagram on Friday to post a hilarious mash-up video of herself parodying a moment from the show, which ran from 2001 to 2006, in which she… Source link

Google is wrapping up 2020 with what it claims are major performance enhancements to the company’s Google Chrome browser. “This month’s update represents the largest gain in Chrome performance in years,” Matt Waddell, Chrome’s director of product, wrote in a blog post. Sounds pretty exciting on the surface, no? Waddell says a slew of under-the-hood changes and optimizations have led to boosts to Chrome on several fronts. The first has to do with tabs. Chrome now will prioritize… Source link

Google is revealing new details about the making of its DeepRank algorithm which surfaces more relevant search results by understanding language the way humans do. DeepRank is discussed in length in a brand new video from Google about how search works. Among other aspects of search, Google’s video goes over the development, testing, and approval process that each algorithm update goes through. DeepRank was launched in 2019 as BERT, and is named for the deep learning methods used by BERT and… Source link

Update: Google has confirmed this issue is fixed. Today we became aware of an issue that impacted some navigational and site: operator searches. We investigated & have since fixed the bug. Contrary to some speculation, this did not target particular sites or political ideologies…. — Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) July 21, 2020 Google’s Danny Sullivan also quells some speculation that this issue specifically targeted particular sites. “Today’s issue affected sites representing… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Texas reported its fifth consecutive day of virus cases over 10,000, while Arizona reported record deaths. New cases in Florida dropped for a second day, as did deaths. Overall, new U.S. cases rose 1.4%, below the daily average of 2% over the past week. Mayor Bill de Blasio vowed tougher enforcement against bars and restaurants in part of New York City. Canada denied the Blue Jays permission to play in Toronto, the AP reported. The Trump administration is balking at $25 billion… Source link