Google kicks off Paris 2024 with Olympic Doodle series
Besides partnering with NBC and Team USA, Google is celebrating the Paris 2024 Olympics across its major services.
Expand Expanding CloseBesides partnering with NBC and Team USA, Google is celebrating the Paris 2024 Olympics across its major services.
Expand Expanding CloseReddit can be a valuable source for information from real people, which is why Google is spending millions on a deal with the platform. But, now, Reddit has started to block many of its results from showing in other search engines properly.
Expand Expanding CloseBack in November, Google Search Labs launched a Notes experiment and it’s now coming to an end with the feature ultimately not launching.
Expand Expanding CloseThe Google Search app for iPhone and iPad, which basically is its own browser, now offers customizable homescreen icons.
Expand Expanding CloseAfter introducing in 2021 and 2022, Google is rolling back continuous scrolling on the Search results page.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle will start rolling out public, searchable “profiles” in Search that will show your movie and TV reviews as well as notes in Search starting on June 24.
Expand Expanding CloseThe Google app on Android is showing a persistent Search bar at the bottom of any web result or Discover article you open.
Expand Expanding CloseIntroduced in 2020, Hum to Search is an underrated capability and Google has now given it a delightful animation.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle launched AI Overviews in mid-May to all users and, following some viral mistakes, it seems the company has pulled back, as new research shows it may be appearing in merely 15% of search queries.
Expand Expanding CloseWhile Search Labs is most closely associated with generative AI, Google also uses it to test other features, with the latest being “Auto Dark Mode” on the iPhone.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle already surfaces air quality in a number of ways, and it’s now being added to the Weather card in Search results.
Expand Expanding CloseIf you’ve noticed some weird behavior in Google Search today, the company has just confirmed that limited outages are causing “some features” to not work properly while some users are reporting problems with Discover and News.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle this afternoon published a long response about AI Overviews and their accuracy. The Search feature launched at I/O 2024 in the US and has been criticized for some high-profile mistakes.
Expand Expanding CloseFor the past several years, Google Search and Maps has offered a Business Messages capability that lets customers reach out to stores, restaurants, etc. via text chat. This is now shutting down in July.
Expand Expanding CloseOn Monday, internal documents describing what factors Google Search takes into consideration when ranking and displaying web results leaked.
Expand Expanding CloseExamples of Google’s AI Overviews going off the rails have quickly gone viral as the update has rolled out to the public, but while the company has had to disable AI on some particularly viral queries, Google reiterates that the “vast majority” of AI results are “high-quality.”
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle launched its AI Overview experience in Search to the general public last week and, already, results are going off the rails. Google, though, says that these are just “isolated examples.”
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle is rolling out AI Overviews to all Search users in the US and you cannot turn it off. However, you can avoid it. Here’s how.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle last week launched the public rollout of AI Overviews in Search and, already, the inevitable has been announced. Ads are coming to AI Overviews.
Expand Expanding CloseAs the first big announcement of I/O 2024 this week, Google revealed that AI Overviews – formerly the Search Generative Experience (SGE) – are now rolling out to the general public. But since its initial debut a year ago, AI Overviews in Search don’t seem to be as prevalent as they used to be.
Expand Expanding CloseMay 17, 2009 saw the release of “Cave Game,” the first iteration of what would soon become Minecraft. This year, the game celebrates its 15-year anniversary and, with that, Google has a fun new Easter egg too.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle’s AI-powered Search experience is now rolling out to everyone and, with it, the web will never be the same again. However, with all of these new layers on top of the “10 blue links,” Google is making it possible to go back to something simpler with a new “Web” filter in Search.
Expand Expanding CloseGoogle today announced that AI Overviews are widely rolling out in Search, but there are also some new features available to those looking to test them out early.
Expand Expanding CloseAfter a year in “Labs,” Google is officially flipping the switch on AI-powered “Overviews” in Search for all users, and the web will never be the same again.
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