Google is facing a $567 million lawsuit from an arm of Polish eCommerce platform Allegro. That company, Ceneo, filed the suit against the tech giant on Monday (Dec. 23), Reuters reported. Ceneo alleges it suffered losses due what it says is Google’s practice of favoring...
Google reportedly plans to add an AI Mode option to its Search page, enabling users to get conversational answers from a Gemini-like chatbot in place of traditional search results. AI Mode will be accessible via a tab near the top of the search results page,...
Canada’s Competition Bureau has sued Google, alleging anti-competitive conduct in the country’s online advertising market. The bureau alleges that the tech giant abuses its dominant position in the market with policies that lock market participants into using its ad tech tools, the Bureau said in a Thursday...
The history of the search landscape is a journey of technological innovation, evolving user behavior and competitive dynamics. And, if the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) call late Wednesday night (Nov. 20) for Google to divest its Chrome browser to answer a ruling that the company has a...
Google is criticizing what it called a “radical” proposal to remedy government antitrust claims. The tech giant made the argument in a blog post Thursday (Nov. 21), one day after the U.S. Department of Justice called for Google to divest its Chrome browser to answer...
Google introduced new tools to elevate online and in-store shopping experiences through artificial intelligence-powered features in Google Lens, Google Maps and Google Pay. Following the launch of a revamped Google Shopping platform in October, the company is applying its AI technology to improve the in-store...
Google announced a leadership change to its Knowledge & Information (K&I) team and some structural changes to its Gemini team. At K&I, which includes the company’s Search, Ads, Geo and Commerce products, Nick Fox will succeed Prabhakar Raghavan as head of the team, Sundar Pichai,...
A federal judge ruled Monday (Oct. 7) that Google must make several changes to policies that discourage competition with its Google Play Store. For a three-year period beginning Nov. 1, the ruling will bar the company from paying developers to exclusively use its app store,...
Users can now save passkeys to Google Password Manager on desktop, in addition to Android devices. This new capability allows users to sync passkeys securely across all their devices, Chirag Desai, product manager, Chrome at Google, wrote in a Thursday (Sept. 19) blog post. “Up until now, you could...
