Category: Search Engines

Google search may soon be unblocked in Mainland China

Seven years after Google pulled its search engine out of mainland China over a disagreement on censorship directives, the information giant is negotiating with Beijing to make its comeback to the world’s biggest internet market. Google is currently not available in the country, which boasts 721 million web users, and locals can only access to the service by using VPNs.

China calls for AI funding, policies to surpass US

Artificial intelligence has made its way on to the agenda of the government’s annual political show in Beijing, urged on by the country’s business and technology elites China’s government is preparing for a war of sorts with the United States to claim the vantage point to define the technological trend for the next generation. At the annual meeting of China’s parliament this week, the usual Communist Party agenda of economic growth, social welfare, jobs, health care and pension made way for an unusual addition: a clarion call by some of China’s most influential business and technology leaders for the government to set policies to define what they consider the Next Big Thing.

3 Beaten-up Driverless Cars Stocks: Are They Bargains?

Baidu, Ford, and Delphi Automotive are poised to benefit from the massive driverless car market — and all look relatively cheap right now. By now you probably know that the driverless car is poised for huge growth in the coming years, hitting an estimated market size of $77 billion by 2035.

Google Expands Cloud Data Center Plans, Asserts Hardware, Connectivity Leadership

Google has added three locations to the list of cloud data center construction projects it is doing to expand geographic reach of the physical infrastructure that supports its enterprise cloud services, investing billions to catch up with its biggest rivals in the space – Amazon, and Microsoft. Urs HA lzle, the company’s senior VP for technical infrastructure, announced the plans from stage Thursday at the Google Cloud Next event in San Francisco.

Apple’s Swift soars into Tiobe’s top 10 programming languages

The Swift language was introduced to much fanfare by Apple in June 2014, positioned as a modern successor to the Objective-C language that has driven iOS and MacOS application development. Now, Swift has cracked the top 10 in Tiobe’s language popularity index, demonstrating momentum for the fledgling language as it approaches its third birthday.

Descartes Labs imagery search engine

We have looked at a number of image recognition based search engines before, such as Google faces tracker , which we saw in 2013, which was designed for finding faces in Google Earth imagery, or Terrapattern a more recent and more general search engine. We have also had a look at DigitalGlobe’s use of artificial intelligence to analyse imagery.

FOIA Uncovers Part of U.K. Shadow Regulation on Search Engines and Copyright

Last month we wrote about the adoption of a new secret agreement between copyright holders and the major search engines, brokered by the U.K. Intellectual Property Office, aimed at making websites associated with copyright infringement less visible in search results. Since the agreement wasn’t publicly available, we simultaneously issued a request under the U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act , asking for a copy of the text.

More than a million Gmail and Yahoo account credentials on sale

Usernames, email addresses and plaintext passwords of more than a million Yahoo and Gmail accounts are reportedly on sale on the dark web, posing a threat to corporate security Login credentials and other personal information linked to more than a million Gmail and Yahoo accounts is reportedly being offered for sale in a dark web marketplace. By submitting my Email address I confirm that I have read and accepted the Terms of Use and Declaration of Consent.

It’s a Man’s World

An Indian who was among the international tech world’s most high profile executives was sacked from Uber for not disclosing a sexual harassment claim made at his previous job. Amit Singhal had just joined Uber after 15 prolific years in Google and has said in a statement, that he had left of his own free will.

Proximity Now The Most Important Ranking Factor for Local Searches.

Whitespark, a team of SEO experts focused on local search, has noticed something big: proximity to the searcher is now the #1 ranking factor for local search pack results. What defines a local search? Think of local searches as searches on a search engine for something you’d traditionally look up in the yellow pages, usually for a place you’d like to physically go .

Law Firm Marketing & Advertisement: Win Clients With Powerful Words

The legal profession constantly struggles to set in place a firm but fair set of policy rules to govern the legal advertisement/marketing industry and yet be able to strike the proper balance between consumer protection, thus allowing consumers to find legal services and ultimately get justice in a court of law. Meanwhile solo attorneys and small-to-medium size law firms that operate on a “tight budget” must learn to utilize unique, clever ways to keep the business afloat.

The Importance of a Diverse Digital Environment

The recruiting industry is no different than any other in that now more than ever it exists largely within a virtual environment. Consider the variety of resources you access daily to assist in your recruiting efforts, whether it is email, social media or other digital services.

Chrome for MacOS to block rogue ad injections and settings changes

Google has expanded its Safe Browsing service, allowing Google Chrome on macOS to better protect users from programs that locally inject ads into web pages or that change the browser’s home page and search settings. The Safe Browsing service is used by Google’s search engine, as well as Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to block users from accessing websites that host malicious code or malicious software.

Google Official Tips On Closing A Site For Days

We’ve talked a lot about sites that close down once a week or more for religious purposes, specifically closing on Shabbat. We were concerned about how GoogleBot handles it, will rankings drop and what about sites that show interstitials as a message to their customers about being closed, will they be hit by the penalty ? Well, Google’s John Mueller who has been fielding most of these questions wrote on the Google blog closing down for the day and three options webmasters have for dealing with such issues.

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Our four favorite findings from the ClickZ Digital Advertising Breakfast

The breakfast considered the most significant findings of the State of Digital Advertising 2017 report, created in partnership with Marin Software, and took glimpse at what’s to come in paid search and paid social advertising, with talks by James Murray, EMEA Product Marketing Manager for Bing Ads, Andrew Warren-Payne , Senior Consultant at ClickZ Intelligence, and Richard May, UK Business Director at Marin Software. Here are four findings from the breakfast that we found most interesting, and that have the greatest implications for the future of digital advertising.

Security flaw hits popular websites

Security firm Cloudflare disclosed late Thursday that a long-running bug in its security systems may have leaked information, including potentially personal information, from thousands of sites including Uber, Fitbit and OK Cupid. The problem was first uncovered by Google security expert Tavis Ormandy, who let Cloudflare know about the issue on Feb. 18. But the service had been leaking information for months in a way that allowed search engines to pick it up, according to Cloudflare.

Telefonica promises customers more control of own data

Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica announced a new strategy on Sunday promising to give customers back control of their own data with the help of a new digital personal assistant. The so-called “fourth platform” comes after Telefonica faced questions about its growth strategy last year following a dividend cut and asset disposals to repay debt.

Amazon said to be developing its own suite of office productivity apps

For the longest time, there have been two titan when it comes to office productivity software: the ever enduring Microsoft Office suite, and the more recent web-based Google Docs. But there soon could be a new challenger in the form of Amazon , as sources have indicated the company is planning to beef up its Amazon Web Services platform with a productivity suite that will attempt to lure enterprise customers away from Microsoft and Google.

An interesting email doing the rounds – Whitehouse vs Google

My first thought was to dfump this as a scam, especiallially considering the sites being mentioned but all the links do go back to whitehouse.gov and .gov sites are tightly controled. Ironically if it was truely sent via the whitehouse then they are trying to ban googles right to put or remove whatever media they want to on their own site and is itself a violation of the USA constitution.

Google Responds to Reports of Unexpected Account Sign-Outs

Google has responded to multiple reports of users being unexpectedly logged out of their Google accounts, in order to assuage fears that the logouts were security related. The unexpected sign-outs began on Thursday night and continued through Friday, affecting multiple services including Gmail, Chromecast, YouTube, and Google Play.