Google will begin deleting inactive accounts on Friday, according to a company statement. Accounts inactive for more than two years will start being deleted on Dec. 1, with this including email content, photographs, documents on Google Drive, and other content. The reason is security, Google said, as accounts that are not being used for a […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company plans to upgrade its popular search tools with AI features. The changes would allow users to interact in more human-like ways with the search engine. The news comes after competitor Microsoft beefed up its search engine Bing with ChatGPT in February. Pichai does not feel competing chatbots threaten […]
LUXEMBOURG—Google suffered one of its biggest setbacks on Wednesday when a top European court upheld a ruling that it broke competition rules and fined it a record 4.1 billion euros, in a move that may encourage other regulators to ratchet up pressure on the U.S. giant. The unit of U.S. tech giant Alphabet had challenged […]
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, saw record profits last quarter. Searches for businesses on Google went up 80 percent compared to last year. In terms of retail, Google made product listings free, removed commission fees, and opened its shopping platform to Shopify and Paypal.
Employees at Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Alphabet, Google’s parent company, donated at least $15.1 million to President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, according to Open Secrets. The donations eclipsed the amount given from employees in the banking and legal sectors, according to The Wall Street Journal. The five companies were also the largest fundraising sources […]
Google was hit by a record 2.42 billion euro (US$2.7 billion) fine for giving its comparison shopping service preference in its search results. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said it was an abuse of Google’s dominant position in online search and illegal under EU antitrust rules. “It has denied other companies the chance to compete […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An advertising boycott of YouTube is broadening, a sign that big-spending companies doubt Google’s ability to prevent marketing campaigns from appearing alongside repugnant videos. PepsiCo, Wal-Mart Stores and Starbucks on Friday confirmed that they have also suspended their advertising on YouTube after the Wall Street Journal found Google’s automated programs placed […]
