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Google has agreed to pay Samsung Electronics $8 billion over four years to allow its search engine, voice assistant, and app store to be used by default on the company’s mobile devices. This became known during a lawsuit between Epic Games and Google, writes Bloomberg. Epic Games’ lawyer presented the ... Read more

Mozilla’s decision to change the default search engine in Firefox from Google to Yahoo turned out to be a bad bet that worsened the user experience. This was told by the company’s CEO Mitchell Baker, writes Bloomberg. She made the statement in an interview in 2022, which was shown during ... Read more

According to a slide released during a federal antitrust trial against Google, the company paid $26.3 billion in 2021 to become the default search engine on smartphones and web browsers. This is reported by CNBC. The U.S. Department of Justice and a coalition of attorneys general argued in the case ... Read more

Google has announced the launch of a technology that will allow users to generate images in the search bar using artificial intelligence, reports TechCrunch. The new feature was introduced in the AI-based search engine Search Generative Experience (SGE). To use it, users have to enter a query in the search ... Read more

Microsoft has been discussing the possibility of selling its Bing search engine to Apple around 2020. The deal would replace Google as the default search engine on the iPhone manufacturer’s devices. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing knowledgeable sources. According to them, the talks were of an exploratory nature. They ... Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice used the first week of the trial against Google to prove that the company violated antitrust laws and suppressed competition to maintain its market leadership, writes The Register. The government’s complaint alleges that Google has “stifled competition in the Internet search industry” through exclusive contracts ... Read more

Google is facing a lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice on charges of illegally holding a monopoly in the Internet search market. Government lawyers claim that the company knew that its activities were being scrutinized, so it advised its employees not to use certain words, writes Bloomberg. According ... Read more

Google has added the Emoji Kitchen tool to its search engine, which allows combining different emojis. This wis reported by 9to5Google. Earlier, Emoji Kitchen debuted in the Gboard virtual keyboard app for Android. But now the tool has been integrated into the search engine, and you can use it from ... Read more

At the end of this month, Google will officially celebrate its 25th birthday. To kick off the festivities, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai reflects on the company’s first quarter century, including the questions and technological advances that led to its biggest breakthroughs and most useful products. He also shares ... Read more

Google announced updates to Search designed to make it easier for users to control information about themselves. This was reported by Engadget. Last year, the company released a tool that helps people remove search results that include their phone number, home address or email. Google has now updated the ‘Results ... Read more

Google is known for its love of Easter eggs in search, which has now been replenished with a new one inspired by the Katamari Damacy game series. When users search for the word Katamari, they can play a mini-game that allows you to recreate the basic mechanics of the game ... Read more

Shareholders initiated a sell-off in Alphabet shares that stripped Google parent of $100 billion in market value after its new Bard chatbot shared inaccurate information in a promotional video and an unveiling of new search capabilities failed to gain much attention, reports Reuters. This has fueled fears that the search ... Read more

As soon as it became known about the announcement of the new Bing search engine from Microsoft, which uses ChatGPT technology, Google has been quick to announce its own changes to Internet search. As previously reported, the success of ChatGPT caught the search giant off uard, and made it announce ... Read more

Microsoft has announced a new version of the Bing search engine, which is based on an updated version of the same artificial intelligence technology that underlies the ChatGPT chatbot, reports The Verge. The updated search engine will be launched together with the new functions of the Edge browser, which will ... Read more

The popularity of ChatGPT, which recently grew to 100 million users, forced Google to speed up its work on a competitor called Bard. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the project on the company’s blog, describing it as an “experimental conversational AI service” that will respond to user requests and participate ... Read more

Searching for The Last of Us on mobile and desktop today shows a funny nod to the movie, a red mushroom button at the bottom of the screen. If you click on it, the Cordyceps fungus will appear on the screen. It’s animated with a slow swaying motion that makes ... Read more

Issuing results upon request in Google does not always immediately show the desired or necessary resource among the first. And if the problem is not with the request itself, then sometimes you have to go to the next page of the search. Google, it seems, does not like this either, ... Read more

Traditionally, at the end of the year, Google presented the final ranking of Ukrainian users’ search queries. The search engine analyzed what Ukrainians most often searched for and which topics saw the greatest increase in interest during the year. The search query of the year, which showed the highest growth ... Read more

Google search often tries to guess what the user meant by correcting their query and suggesting the most popular answers. However, sometimes this is not what is needed, and to direct the Google search in the right direction, you can use a special operator: quotation marks. If you put the ... Read more