by: Addy Bink, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: May 31, 2021 / 10:33 PM EDT / Updated: May 31, 2021 / 10:33 PM EDT FILE – This Sept. 24, 2019, file photo shows a sign on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google was quickly negotiating generous deals with big and small Australian media companies to pay for news as the Parliament considers forcing digital giants into such remuneration agreements, a minister said on Wednesday,… Source link
Read More »Google Photo users: You may soon have to pay to store your photos, videos
by: Addy Bink, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: May 31, 2021 / 04:15 PM CDT / Updated: May 31, 2021 / 04:15 PM CDT FILE – This Sept. 24, 2019, file photo shows a sign on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google was quickly negotiating generous deals with big and small Australian media companies to pay for news as the Parliament considers forcing digital giants into such remuneration agreements, a minister said on Wednesday,… Source link
Read More »You may soon have to pay to store your photos, videos
by: Addy Bink, Nexstar Media Wire Posted: May 31, 2021 / 04:12 PM EDT / Updated: May 31, 2021 / 04:27 PM EDT FILE – This Sept. 24, 2019, file photo shows a sign on a Google building at their campus in Mountain View, Calif. Google was quickly negotiating generous deals with big and small Australian media companies to pay for news as the Parliament considers forcing digital giants into such remuneration agreements, a minister said on Wednesday,… Source link
Read More »Google’s New Custom Data Center Chip (VCU) Improves YouTube Videos
You may or may not have noticed, but Google says YouTube videos should now look better and load faster. That’s thanks to a new chip the company has designed inhouse and deployed in its data centers to compress video content. Google says the chips, called Video (Trans)Coding Units, or VCUs, do that faster and more efficiently than was possible before. Traditional CPUs, the company found, aren’t great at video transcoding. Related: You Can Now… Source link
Read More »an interview with the infamous “Am I pregnant?” video’s creator.
“How is prangent formed?” It’s a question that has haunted people to the tune of 40 million YouTube views and come to symbolize a very specific era of the mid-2000s internet. An era that, with the looming shutdown of Yahoo Answers, Yahoo’s question-and-answer forum, is about to be lost to time. (For the uninitiated, Yahoo Answers allowed anybody to submit questions about, well, just about anything, which, as with all things on the internet, led to a combination of comedy,… Source link
Read More »Google Chrome can now automatically add real-time captions to videos and audio as it’s playing
The latest version of Google Chrome has an amazingly handy new feature: live captions. Basically, it’s like closed captioning on your TV but it works on any audio or video that you’re watching on the web – even livestreams. Google is using its machine learning smarts to make it all happen. The feature was first introduced on the Pixel smartphone a few years back. Live Captions can be helpful for the hearing impaired or anyone who wants to “see” what’s being said…. Source link
Read More »Google Photos adds pinch-to-zoom for videos
For the last year or so, Google is making slow progress to improve the video-watching experience in its Photos app and the latest update brings a couple of cool features. The app will now allow you to pinch to zoom on videos as well as dobule-tap. Once you zoom on a video, you can trace and look at specific areas in the video for a closer look. A double-tap, on the other hand, will fill your phone’s display with the video and double-tapping for a second time will zoom out. It’s… Source link
Read More »Embedded Videos Have Same SEO Value as Uploaded Content
Google’s John Mueller says there’s no difference, when it comes to SEO, between embedded videos and videos natively uploaded to a website. This topic came up more than once during the Google Search Central SEO office-hours on January 29. Saidul Hoque, SEO Manager at RealClicks, started by asking a series of questions about video SEO. One of those questions involves Google’s perception of embedded content versus self-hosted content. Hoque asks: “Is there any difference between embedding… Source link
Read More »Google experiments with surfacing TikTok and Instagram videos in search
GlobeNewswire Key Digital’s Hardware and Software Ecosystem Help Modernize Nebraska Church Benefiting From Effortless Control of Technology at a Reasonable Price-Point Display with Use of the KD-MLV4x2Pro The First English Lutheran Church Mount Vernon, New York, Dec. 30, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Set in the midst of western Nebraska in the scenic Lodgepole Valley, the First English Lutheran Church in Kimball has hosted its congregation since 1929. In its longevity the church has undergone… Source link
Read More »Google is testing a shortcut feature for TikTok and Instagram videos
Google ‘Short Videos’ carousel, which is currently still in its testing stages, has added TikTok and Instagram videos to its library. Short Videos is currently restricted to a limited number of search queries, like Biryani and the Green Bay Packers. Rather than having to open individual apps to watch short videos, Google’s new feature allows users to search for videos within Google mobile app and watch them on their phone’s default browser. The supreme aggregator of the internet… Source link
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