The US judge ruled that the search engine was an illegal Monopoly game
Apple received $20 billion in payments from Google in 2022 for the default position on iPhone browsers, an expert witness for Google said during the first two Sessions in the Google-Apple antitrust case. Earlier, the judge had ruled that Google has monopoly power in general search and general search text ads. A weeklong hearing on remedies is expected this year.
We were hoping that this was the Apple TV 4K rival we had been waiting for
Google Home will soon have a voice-over-eye view, new camera intelligence features and a smart Assistant for smart speakers and displays that can learn and understand the home. The Assistant will be able to maintain the context of your conversation and start to learn and understand your home, Google said. The feature will also have natural language input for creating routines.
In a US antitrust case, a judge rules that is a monopolist
A jury in the US found that Google’s deals with partners harm competition in the general search and text ads markets. The jury also found that Google’s deals with manufacturers of mobile devices, browsers and apps led to monopoly in the market for general search and text ads. It also found that Google has monopoly power in both the markets.
Data centers need to cool down because this climate tech startup wants to capture carbon
Data centres consume the equivalent of electricity per year as the entire country of Italy, according to Bloomberg. Google wrote in its sustainability report in 2023 that it was no longer “maintaining operational carbon neutrality”. But, starting in 2023, Google wrote in its sustainability report that it was no longer “maintaining operational carbon neutrality”.
After security backlash, Microsoft will switch off recall
Google’s Project Zero researcher James Forshaw has found a way to access Microsoft’s Recall feature without “administrator privileges”. This comes after Microsoft announced changes to its Copilot+ feature to make it an opt-in feature. The new features require users to provide a username and password to unlock the feature, which was previously turned on by default.
Search results Copied my original work
Google has responded to journalist Anthropic’s allegation that its artificial intelligence-powered summaries used one of his articles without his permission. “We see that links included in the AI Overviews get more clicks than if the page had appeared as a traditional web listing for that query,” Google said. Anthropic’s article was often a featured link in the top of search results.
Before its pizza glue, the technology was cut back in its search
Microsoft has reportedly been asked to provide information about the safety of its AI-generated answers to search queries called AI Overviews. The feature was criticised after it produced incorrect answers to several queries. Google had recently made adjustments to its new search feature, AI Overviews, after screenshots of bizarre and misleading answers to queries went viral.
The search feature has been screwed up
After Google’s AI-based search engine AI Overviews advised people to eat rocks, put glue on pizza and jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, it admitted it needed to make adjustments. “We’ll continue to monitor users’ feedback and adjust the feature as necessary,” Google said in a post. Google added it’ll continue to rely on Reddit’s user-generated content for AI-based searches.
The leaked Search documents are real, according to the search engine
Google is not using Chrome data to rank websites and E-E-A-T (experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness) isn’t a ranking factor, leaked documents revealed. They also showed that links appearing below vogue.com URL may be created in part by using chrome data. The documents said Google doesn’t use Chrome data to rank pages, but Chrome is specifically mentioned in sections about how websites appear in Search.
There are strange answers in the search
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said that the Search Generative Experience has served over a billion queries in last 12 months. He stated that the algorithm was able to answer 80% of these queries without human input. He added that Google brought the cost of delivering AI answers down by 80% over that same time, “driven by hardware, engineering and technical breakthroughs”.