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Google made major changes to its search algorithm and spam filters earlier this year to get rid of low-quality content — but the effects have proved devastating to some smaller websites. Online businesses have been left considering…
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Several Google employees were arrested on Tuesday for taking part in a 10-hour sit-in at the company’s offices in New York and California. The protest, organized by members of the No Tech For Apartheid movement, was meant as a challenge…
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Google, Microsoft, and Amazon were among several multinational giants to obtain licenses for regional headquarters in Saudi Arabia in time to qualify for government contracts, official data showed. In 2023, it was announced that…
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Google has agreed to settle a $5 billion privacy lawsuit alleging that it spied on people who used the “incognito” mode in its Chrome browser — along with similar “private” modes in other browsers — to track their Internet use. The…
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The CEO of privacy-oriented search engine DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple about a potential contract failed because the smartphone maker was reluctant to give up Google’s multibillion dollar paychecks, according to newly transcripts of…
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To shrink error rates in quantum computers, sometimes more is better. More qubits, that is. The quantum bits, or qubits, that make up a quantum computer are prone to mistakes that could render a calculation useless if not corrected. To…
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The New Zealand government said it will introduce a law that will require big online digital companies such as Alphabet’s Google and Meta Platforms to pay New Zealand media companies for the local news content that appears on their feeds.…
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An Australian law giving the government power to make Internet giants Facebook owner Meta Platforms and Alphabet’s Google negotiate content supply deals with media outlets has largely worked, a government report said. But the law, which…
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A US judge in California on Monday allowed litigation against Alphabet’s Google to proceed as a consumer class action of 21 million individuals who accuse the company of violating US anti-competition laws in how it runs its Google Play app…
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Alphabet’s Google will pay US$391.5 million to settle allegations by 40 states that the search and advertising giant illegally tracked users’ locations, the Michigan attorney-general’s office said on Monday. The investigation and…
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