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Media: Google developed a search engine censored specifically for China

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Google is preparing to launch a special version of the censored search for China. The new search engine under the pilot name Dragonfly will not search for sites and search queries that are contrary to the policies of the Chinese authorities. According to sources at Google, work on this project has been going on since spring of last year and has accelerated significantly since the meeting of the head of Google, Sundar Pichai, with top government officials in China in December 2017. Dragon...

Google Head Meets US President Donald Trump

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On Wednesday, March 27, Google CEO Sundar Pichai met with US President Donald Trump to discuss contracts and current partnerships with the US government. Both sides were satisfied with the outcome of the meeting. “I just met with Sundar Pichai, president of Google. He strongly stated that he was fully committed to the US military forces, and not to the Chinese military. We also discussed political justice and other things Google can do for our country. The meeting ended very well! ”Tr...

Google has opened access to the preview version of the AMP URL indicating the publisher’s domain

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Publishers who use AMP technology have long been concerned about the fact that their own domains are not displayed in the URL when users navigate AMP results from Google search results. The Google AMP team has worked on this problem for many months and finally published a preview version of its solution, which everyone can test. Google first demonstrated this decision at the Google I / O conference in May, and it became known about it in January. New Signed HTTP Exchanges technology...

Google began offering Android users in the EU to choose search and browser

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Google began to show European users of Android with an offer to install other search engines and browsers. This is reported in the company’s blog. New alerts will appear when you first open Google Play after receiving an upcoming update. There will be two total alerts: one for search applications, and the second for browsers. Each will contain a total of 5 applications, including those already installed. While not installed applications will be selected on the basis of their popularity. ...

US military leadership worried about Google’s AI-development in China

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai will meet with US General and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces Joseph Dunford . The meeting will be held today in Washington. Pichai and Dunford will discuss Google’s business and technology initiatives in China. The decision to meet was made after Dunford said during Senate hearings earlier this month that Google’s AI-development in China “indirectly benefits the Chinese military.” US President Donald Trump supported the gener...

Google will automatically delete the history of locations and search

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Google is preparing to launch a new setting that will allow users to automatically delete their location history and web search. New option will be available in the coming weeks. This setting will appear in the Google Account Data Management Center . To automatically delete information, users can choose one of two options – 3 or 18 months. This is the period during which their data will be stored. The new setting will also cover user activity in applications, including actions in serv...

Google solved the problem of de-indexing pages

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Google employee Danny Sullivan told Twitter that the problem with page indexing that was revealed last week has been completely resolved. Engineers worked on this issue for 6 days. The indexing issue has now been fully resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience. We appreciate your patience as we restored normal operation. — Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) April 11, 2019 As previously reported, starting from April 4, due to a technical failure on the Google side, some of the prev...

Google has not yet decided on the transfer of the Disavow Links Tool to the new Search Console

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At the moment, the tool for rejecting links (Disavow Links Tool) is available in the old version of Google Search Console and has not yet been transferred to the new version of the service. When the search officer, John Müller, was asked when the transfer would be made, he replied: “We have no plans for this yet.” Tweets by JohnMu What will happen with this tool further, Muller does not know. He himself is not against giving site owners the opportunity to reject those resources with whi...

Head of Google Cloud Diane Green resigns

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In the coming weeks, the head of Google Cloud Diane Green (Diane Greene) will leave his post. She announced this on a platform blog. After the departure of Green, the cloud division of Google will be headed by the former director of product for Oracle Corp. Thomas Kurian (Thomas Kurian). Diane Green served as executive director of Google Cloud, but Kurian will become senior vice president of Google Cloud. According to Green, when she came to Google three years ago, she planned to leave ...

Google launched new Googlebot a few months ago

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Recently it turned out that the launch of the new Googlebot, which will now always work based on the latest version of Chromium, was launched several months ago. In November, the new crawler indexed 10% of the Internet, and last week this figure was increased to 100%. This was told by Google employee Martin Split during the last video call for webmasters. SEO experts and site owners did not notice that Google uses a new robot, because it had an old user agent. But in fact, it was a differ...