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Google announced today it will cut some links to California-based news sites in its search results to prepare for future actions against the state's possibility of charging Google for news links.

Google is looking at charging for some new "premium" features powered by artificial intelligence, such as an AI-powered search engine which would keep the existing search free of charge.

Google revealed that, thanks to improvements in algorithms and technology, it was able to remove or block over 170 million fake reviews from Search and Maps in 2023, over 45 percent more than in 2022

Google has confirmed that it will no longer have a Cached feature for websites in its search results, claiming that the feature is no longer needed due to improvements in internet website loading.

Google has released its annual look at the past year in search trends, this time for 2023. It has also posted a video that shows the top search trends for the past 25 years since the company launched.

Google has decided to pay $100 million CAD annually to the government of Canada as part of an agreement by the company to comply with the country's recently passed Online News Act.

Google is reportedly experimenting with moving the search bar to the bottom of the screen in its Android app. The query will automatically populate in the lowered search box during active searches.

Google is bringing three new shopping tools for the holiday season. These generative AI tools are designed to show product recommendations, generate apparel images, and offer virtual try-ons.

Google is rolling out a new feature to its Search service called Follow. It will let users designate specific subjects in Search so they can get the latest information on those subjects.

Users, especially in the field of academics, can now get help from new capabilities in Search and Lens by Google. The latest updates solve equations, integrals, and word problems more easily.

Google parent Alphabet reported third-quarter earnings that beat estimates, but cloud revenue growth disappointed, sending shares lower. YouTube revenue rose 12% to $7.95 billion, beating forecasts.

Google has announced that users who have signed into its experimental Search Generative Experience (SGE) can now access an AI-based art creator similar to Microsoft's Bing Image Creator.

Newly revealed transcripts from the ongoing Google antitrust trial have revealed that DuckDuckGo had numerous discussions with Apple about using its search engine as the default for Apple products.

Satya Nadella took the stand today in the DOJ's case against Google where he talked about Microsoft's plan for Bing and the company's struggles because of Google's alleged monopoly in the market.

Apple has been building search engine technology into its products under the codename Pegasus. It's reportedly coming to the App Store soon and could be used as leverage against Google.

A new report claims that back in 2020, Microsoft met with Apple with a proposal to sell off its Bing search engine to the iPhone maker, but the discussions did not go beyond the exploratory stage

Google celebrates its 25th birthday with a nostalgic doodle, showcasing its logo's evolution. The tech giant reflects on its journey, innovations, and services, including YouTube and Android.

Google's latest update to its search engine has content creators up in arms because AI-generated content seems to be reaching the top of the results more easily. Google has a guide to address issues.

Google and the US government are going head-to-head over the information they believe should be known to the public in the antitrust case against the company. It will be for the judge to decide.

Google will face the US Department of Justice today in court. The DOJ claims Google made anti-competitive deals with mobile phone makers and web browsers to make Google search their default. Google

Google is bringing its Search Generative Experience to India and Japan as the company further expands this experimental search feature that was first announced at I/O 2023 earlier this year.

Google has renamed its bookmarking feature from "Collections" to "Saved" again. This new feature allows users to save links, videos, images, places, and more from Google's products.

Google's experimental generative AI-powered Search experience (SGE) is adding some more features, including offering definitions of terms to search answers and key points in certain long articles.

Gboard is the latest Google product to get generative AI capabilities. Gboard is being enhanced with advanced proofreading, custom emoji creation (Emogen), intonation suggestions, and stylus support.

Google has added a new grammar check tool to its search engine. The feature that uses AI find errors and suggestions for sentences is available on the web and mobile versions of the search engine.

Google Search will roll out a new dashboard that will let people know if any of their contact information shows up on the web, so they can ask Google to remove that info from its search results.

Google announced that when people use its Search Labs service for generative AI prompts, they should see images and even video clips for some of the search results, as part of its latest update.

Google settles Italian probe over data portability. It commits to improving Takeout to make it easier to transfer data to a third party. It lets services access user data from Search and YouTube.

Revenues for Alphabet were up 7 percent in the second quarter compared to a year ago, and net income came in at $18.368 billion for the quarter. Revenues were up in Search, Cloud, and YouTube.

Google will remove news links from its products for Canadian audiences due to the passage of the government's Bill C-18 into law which requires Google to make commercial deals with news media.

Google decided to settle in a class-action lawsuit related to search privacy concerns for $23 million. If you live in the US, you might be able to get a few dollars as a result of the settlement.

Google is working on some experimental features that utilize generative AI. These are part of Search Labs and provide users with accurate and relevant information to help them plan their trips.

Google Search users in the US are able to access Search Labs features from today. The main addition is the Search Generative Experience which adds generative AI directly to your Google Searches.

Google Bard can now pull in relevant images from Google Search. Just like the text responses, the images that Bard fetches tend to be spot-on. To be clear, Bard cannot generate its own images yet.

Google has expanded its Flood Hub project to cover 80 countries. The tool also provides 7-day forecasts now instead of 48-hour forecasts. This can give communities more time to prepare for floods.

Neeva, which created a search engine that later added an AI component, announced this weekend it is shutting down its consumer search business. It will concentrate its efforts on AI development.

A fresh, new report claims that Samsung has paused the internal review that was looking into replacing Google Search as its smartphone's default search engine with Microsoft's Bing.

About This Image will launch later this year, and will label images with when they were first indexed by Google Search, where it may have first shown up, and where it has been posted in other places

Google Search will be getting some generative AI features that will allow users to ask follow-up questions for text searches, and will also help with the company's shopping search features.