Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are under increased pressure to police what news content can be posted on their platforms, making them reluctant judges of what is misleading, hateful or true. Such moves could alienate users, hurt advertising revenue and fuel a bigger debate on how much influence they should have over…...Read More

Google’s approach to software increasingly centers around personalized recommendations and assistance. It will filter your email and surface only the messages you need to see, pop up alerts if your train line goes out of service, and even chat with you about the latest scores and trades from your favorite sports team. Today that same...Read More

As you would expect, the candidates’ names are linked to election-related searches, such as “What will Hillary Clinton do now?” and “How did Donald Trump win?” But even generic search strings like “How did…” and “Why did…” were dominated by the presidential elections. “Why did Hillary concede?” trended, as well as the question that probably...Read More

Stay informed on election day. As soon as the polls close on Tuesday, Nov. 8,Google goog will display continuously updated election results through its search engine the company said. The search giant plans to show up-to-the-minute information detailing the progress of multiple U.S. election day races and other referenda to anyone who queries for “election...Read More

“We never compromised the quality or relevance of the information we displayed. On the contrary, we improved it. That isn’t ‘favoring’ – that’s listening to our customers,” Walker said. He said the Commission had failed to take into account competition from Amazon, merchant platforms, social media sites, mobile web and online advertising by companies such...Read More

Everyday internet wisdom tells us that if you can dream it, it exists online. I’ve used this technique with great success to find everything from knickknacks for my apartment to deeply unfortunate photos. Speaking of which! In light of recent news that we may be getting a Sonic the Hedgehog movie directed by the guy...Read More