Five years ago, the “Urs-quake†struck: A memo from Google SVP Urs Hölzle went out detailing how Google risked being left beyond on social, prompting the creation of Google Plus. Years, many millions of dollars and several tribulations later, one of the most beleaguered, storied products in Google’s history looked dead. In fact, Google shed...Read More
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Google hopes to get permission to launch its Google Play mobile-app store in China. But even if it succeeds, there are three devastating words its executives might hear: “What is Google?†It’s been five years since Google pulled its search services and servers out of mainland China after cyberattacks against Gmail users and disagreements with...Read More
Google’s new Smart Reply option automatically offers three possible responses to certain e-mails. Credit Image courtesy Google at gmailblog.blogspot.com On April 1, 2009, Google unveiled Gmail Autopilot, a plug-in that promised to read and generate contextually relevant replies to the messages piling up in users’ inboxes. “As more and more everyday communication takes place over...Read More
While there will never be enough hours in the day to answer emails, Google’s new artificial intelligence system might be able to get you one step closer to Inbox Zero. Google announced today (Nov. 3) that it’s about to release Smart Reply, a machine learning program built into its Inbox by Gmail apps that will...Read More
Obamacare’s third open enrollment period started today. And one of the question most on Americans’ minds — at least, the thing they’re searching a lot for on Google — is how to sign up. I asked Google to pull the top 10 Obamacare-related search questions for the past five years, to try and get a...Read More
Google has unveiled an ambitious project to boost Internet access across much of rural Indonesia using 20,000 helium balloons. The California tech giant has partnered with some of Indonesia’s top telecoms companies for its Project Loon initiative that aims to improve connectivity in the Southeast Asian nation of 250 million, especially for those scattered across...Read More
Google doesn’t know who your friends are, who you chat with, or what news you care about. Just like how Facebook doesn’t know what’s in your email, what directions you map, what you web search for, or what’s going on in your Android phone. That’s why the two have huge but very different opportunities when...Read More
Alphabet was established to help Google develop its ideas beyond search into areas as diverse as self-driving cars, medical technology, and high-speed internet connections. But it’s YouTube, still a part of Google prime, that the company is touting as one of its first big successes outside of search. During Alphabet’s first quarterly earnings call yesterday,...Read More
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