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Top European court to decide if Google needs to purge disputed links from global index

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A top European court will now decide whether Google must remove “right to be forgotten” (RTBF) links from its global search index. The French data protection authority, Commission Nationale de l’informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), previously argued RTBF can be defeated when disputed content remains in Google’s global index. In 2015, CNIL demanded global delisting to enforce RTBF. […]

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Google Now is dead, long live ‘the feed’

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Google Now was launched at Google I/O in June, 2012. It was part of a package of updates and UI changes for mobile search, which included a female-voiced mobile assistant to compete with Apple’s Siri. Google Now was initially a way to get contextually relevant information based on location, time of day and your calendar. It evolved to become much

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Google adds menu tab to restaurants’ local panel

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Google has added a new tab to the local panel for many restaurants. The new tab is for accessing the restaurant’s menu, and Google may show the tab if Google is able to pick out the menu items from the restaurant’s menu. Sergey Alakov first noticed this, and I am able to replicate it for

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Study argues Google Home 6X ‘more effective’ than Alexa, but will consumers care?

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Tech bloggers love to test and compare rival products. There’s an underlying assumption that the better product will always win. But other factors (e.g., price, brand and so on) can get in the way of rational market outcomes. A new study from agency 360i (reported in Adweek) asserts that Google Home is much more likely to answer people’s questions than Amazon Alexa.The headline is

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EU slaps Google with $2.7 billion antitrust fine

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Expected for months, the antitrust penalty was supposed to be closer to $1 billion. However, today the EU leveled a much larger 2.4 billion euro ($2.7 billion) fine against Google for alleged abuse of its market power in vertical (shopping) search. Though the fine is not a surprise, the amount is. In the climax of a decade-long antitrust saga that at

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Google now removing medical records from its search results

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Google is now purging private medical information from their search results. Bloomberg reported the change in Google’s removal policies, which adds a single line that reads: Confidential, personal medical records of private people Google did not give much information to Bloomberg about the change, only telling Bloomberg that they have “confirmed the changes do not

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Google Posts now live for all Google My Business users

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Google Posts is now rolling out to all small businesses that use the Google My Business (GMB) platform. Google just announced the rollout late this afternoon. A couple weeks ago, the company moved Google Posts into GMB and that is where you can access it now — on both the desktop and the Google My

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Google’s job listings search is now open to all job search sites & developers

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It’s now official: Job listings are coming to Google’s search results in a much more prominent way. And the company is now offering a formal path for outsiders to add job listings to the new feature in Google search. Google announced this morning that they are now opening up job listings within Google search to

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