#google

#google

The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. 's Google misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, according to people familiar with the matter.

The ask came from Google, maker of the world's most used web browser, Chrome. The tech giant sent a message to an email list that Hopkins and other small business owners were subscribed to. Google's request: To sign a petition opposing Assembly Bill 566, which would require browsers to provide users with a way to automatically tell websites not to share their personal information with third parties.

Google is now showing AI Mode shortcuts in the autocomplete search suggestions. As you type the main Google Search box, Google may try to jump you to AI Mode with shortcuts. We saw Google testing sending searchers to vertical search features in the autocomplete search suggestions before but Google did not have AI Mode as an option. That is until now.

Google's CEO, Sundar Pichai, said in May that web publishing is not dying. Nick Fox, VP of Search at Google, said in May that the web is thriving. But in a court document filed by Google on late Friday, Google's lawyers wrote, "The fact is that today, the open web is already in rapid decline."

Europe today 'hit' another great American company, Google, with a $3.5 Billion fine, effectively taking money that would otherwise go to American Investments and Jobs. Please let this Statement serve to represent that Google has also paid, in the past, $13 Billion in false claims and charges for a total of $16.5 Billion. How crazy is that? The European Union must stop this practice against American Companies, IMMEDIATELY!

"This decision misunderstands how our products work, and we will appeal it," Google spokesman Jose Castaneda said Thursday. "Our privacy tools give people control over their data, and when they turn off personalization, we honor that choice."

"Translation is one of the most-used features in Circle to Search - you can get more context for social posts from creators who speak a different language, or browse menus when you're booking restaurant reservations while traveling abroad," Google wrote in a blog post. "But until now, you had to restart the translation process every time you scrolled or the content on the screen changed." Now, users can get continuous translation as they scroll down a page or even switch apps.

A US federal court has told Google to pay $425m (316.3m) for breaching users' privacy by collecting data from millions of users even after they had turned off a tracking feature in their Google accounts. The verdict comes after a group of users brought the case claiming Google accessed users' mobile devices to collect, save and use their data, in violation of privacy assurances in its Web & App Activity setting. They had been seeking more than $31bn in damages.