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Gmail creator says Google missed its opportunity with AI to maintain search dominance — which is barely clinging on after the antitrust monopolist ruling
By Kevin Okemwa published
missed opportunity Gmail Creator Paul Buchheit recently shed more light on the company's founding mission and missed opportunities in the AI landscape despite its vast resources.
A former Google engineer says the company has bigger fish to fry with OpenAI's "temporary prototype" search tool than its antitrust monopolist ruling and pending regulation
By Kevin Okemwa published
MORE ON YOUR PLATE Experts say Google's blind-sightedness to the rapid growth in AI could give OpenAI's SearchGPT the upper hand in search.
Microsoft is reportedly using deception as fair game to get Windows 11 users to switch to Bing
By Kevin Okemwa published
DECEPTION Reports indicate Microsoft is using the Bing Wallpaper app to get Windows 11 users to switch to Bing as the "recommended browser settings" for fast and secure search results.
Apple says 'there's no price Microsoft could pay' to make it ditch Google: "They offered to give us Bing for free"
By Kevin Okemwa published
PICK ME! While Google has been deemed a monopolist, Apple will retain its exclusive deal with the company citing Bing's search quality issues.
Google loses US DOJ antitrust case after judge rules its search engine payments violated the law: "Google is a monopolist"
By Brendan Lowry published
Big Loss A judge has found Google guilty of breaking US antitrust law with payments made in 2021 that made its search engine the default option on smartphones.
Reddit CEO says it's “a real pain in the ass to block these companies" from crawling the site, says Microsoft refuses to negotiate
By Daniel Rubino published
Drama Microsoft is reportedly refusing to pay for scrapping data from Reddit, or rather, it refuses to even talk to Reddit, so says its CEO in a new interview.
Bing blocked by Reddit, breaking search results for everyone but Google
By Sean Endicott published
No access Reddit claims that it blocking Bing from crawling Reddit is not related to a deal with Google.
Meta's new open-source 'state of the art' AI model already outperforms OpenAI and Google on certain benchmarks
By Kevin Okemwa published
LLAMA 3.1 Meta unveils Llama 3.1 to compete with Google and OpenAI.
Google reverses its stance on deprecating third-party cookies in Chrome, but users get an option to disable the 'crumbs'
By Kevin Okemwa published
MORE COOKIES Google has changed its mind about its privacy sandbox on Chrome, and will keep supporting cookies.
Apple throws critical privacy jabs at Google Chrome to keep millions of iPhone users hooked on Safari
By Kevin Okemwa published
NOT PRIVATE ENOUGH As part of Apple's plan to keep iPhone users 'glued' to Safari, it has highlighted two critical privacy issues riddling Google Chrome's user experience.
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