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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.

A new report claims Google is revamping its Search layout away from the traditional column of links in favor of showing more short videos similar to TikTok, and showing more forum discussions.

The latest edition of Microsoft Weekly contains all you would need to know about the latest events that transpired in the world of Microsoft during the past week, dive right in without further ado!

A reporter for the Austrian website derStandard points out that Google's agreements for adding the Play Store to Android phones also means they must include Google Search as the default.

The 60 Minutes Overtime segment from CBS News showed a brief glimpse of the upcoming Google text-to-video AI program, but there's no word on when it might be released to the public.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has said in an interview that Google Search will soon enable some conversational AI elements that will help it to compete with Bing Chat and ChatGPT to help users more.

Google has also added a new way to view hotel listings on mobile devices, plus new ways to find prices and even book tickets to specific travel locations and attractions in Search and Maps.

Google is readying a new alerts feature for Search that will show information about extreme heat conditions in an area. The feature is expected to roll out sometime in the coming months.

A new report says that in an all-hands meeting at Google this week, the head of the company's Bard team is trying to move away from the idea that the chatbot AI is solely for online searches.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has asked a district judge to sanction Google for allegedly destroying evidence in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit regarding its dominance in the web search market.

Recent code changes on the Chromium Google Source site hint that the company may be preparing to test a "Conversational Search" feature in the ChromeOS launcher, perhaps as a way to add Bard support.

Many Google employees reportedly posted on the internal forum Memegen that they felt the launch of the Bard AI chatbot earlier this week was "rushed" and ultimately "botched" by the company.

A new Google Search blog post states that the company's search engine won't automatically ban AI-generated content from search results if that content is accurate and of high quality.

The new Google Search feature, which will be added in the coming months, will ensure that users won't see things they don't want to see, even if the standard SafeSearch settings are turned off.