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It’s an ad duopoly battle. Facebook is starting to test search ads in its search results and Marketplace, directly competing with Google’s AdWords. Facebook first tried Sponsored Results back in 2012 but eventually shut down the product in…

Google Lens began widely rolling out to Android in March and got a big update at I/O 2018 with real-time results and smart text selection. The visual search feature is now rolling out to the Google app for iOS. In March, Google Lens came…

Google is changing how they show some of the issues within Google Search Console for the AMP enhancement report. Google said they will combine some over-specific issue types into fewer generalized issue types within the report in an effort…

Netflix is increasing its efforts in Asia after it commissioned more local content and began testing more aggressive price points, but one local rival is hitting back with a program to spotlight promising creators in the region.…

  Google now supports showing livestreams in the search results and in Google Assistant. Google added structured data to help Google understand the information in the live stream and also added using the Indexing API to support…

Privacy search engine Startpage.com has launched a “Anonymous View” feature. It protects users against tracking by acting as an anonymizing buffer between sites and the user. By now, everybody is aware of “incognito mode,” an…

Days after Google employees published an open letter calling for the company to cancel its controversial efforts to create a censored search engine in China, some employees are talking about creating a “strike fund” to support workers who…

Eleven employees comprising engineers and managers at Alphabet’s Google published an open letter on Tuesday, demanding that the company end development of a censored search engine for Chinese users, escalating earlier protests…

 Russia has launched a civil case against Google, accusing it of failing to comply with a legal requirement to remove certain entries from its search results, the country’s communications watchdog said on Monday. If found guilty, the…

Google is planning to launch a new feature that will enable users to leave in search results comments that could be seen by others, a help document tipped. While the feature has not yet gone live, an official Google help document has…