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No ‘iPhone moment’! Microsoft Bing Search Engine Market Share Barely Budged With ChatGPT Add-On
19Jan By adminNo Comments
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No ‘iPhone moment’! Microsoft Bing Search Engine Market Share Barely Budged With ChatGPT Add-On

[ad_1] When Microsoft Corp. announced it was baking ChatGPT into its Bing search engine last February, bullish analysts declared the move an “iPhone moment” that could upend the search market and chip away at Google's dominance.“The entire search category is now going through a sea change,” Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said at the time. “That opportunity comes very few times.” Almost a year later, the sea has yet to change. The new Bing — powered by OpenAI's generative AI technology — dazzled internet users with conversational replies to queries asked in a natural way. But te, according to data analytics firm StatCounter, up less than 1 percentage point since the ChatGPT announcement.We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join.Bing has long struggled for relevance and attracted more ...
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Google Search Data Technique Used by Police Draws New Legal Challenge
6Jan By adminNo Comments
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Google Search Data Technique Used by Police Draws New Legal Challenge

[ad_1] Civil liberties advocates are mounting a new challenge to the use by police of Google search data for help solving criminal cases, as the practice draws greater scrutiny nationwide. After a Pennsylvania woman was raped in 2016, police submitted a search warrant to Alphabet's Google for information about users who had typed the victim's name or address into the search engine in the week leading up to the attack, according to court papers. Google responded with the IP address of a user who had searched for the victim's address twice shortly before the incident, court papers show. That breakthrough prompted police to begin monitoring a corrections officer, who was ultimately arrested and convicted.On Friday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the National Association of Criminal De...
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Six Documents That Explain DOJ’s Antitrust Case Against Google
20Nov By adminNo Comments
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Six Documents That Explain DOJ’s Antitrust Case Against Google

[ad_1] The most damning evidence in the US antitrust trial against Alphabet Inc.'s Google that concluded in Washington this week came not from the parade of witnesses from Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and other companies, but from internal documents.During the 10-week trial, the Justice Department used emails, slides and other records to illustrate how Google's lavish payments to other companies ensured its search engine became the preselected option almost everywhere people access the internet.  Antitrust enforcers allege that Google illegally maintained a monopoly over search, where it controls nearly 90% of online queries, through those payments to smartphone makers, web browsers and wireless carriers. That dominance allowed Google to raise prices on advertisers without consequences, ...
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Mozilla’s ‘Failed’ Bet on Yahoo Takes Spotlight in Google Trial
2Nov By adminNo Comments
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Mozilla’s ‘Failed’ Bet on Yahoo Takes Spotlight in Google Trial

[ad_1] Mozilla Foundation's decision to switch the search engine built into its Firefox browser to Yahoo from Google was a “failed” bet that degraded the user experience, the company's chief executive said. Chief Executive Officer Mitchell Baker said Mozilla decided to switch to Yahoo's technology in 2014 after CEO Marissa Mayer took over and promised “to make a big bet on us.”  “That bet failed,” Baker said in a videotaped interview from 2022 played Wednesday in Google's defense during the Justice Department's antitrust trial. “The search experience that Yahoo was providing to Firefox users deteriorated.” The Mozilla example — the only situation in which a browser has switched the default search engine provider — has been cited by both Google and the Justice Department to support the...
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DOJ Google Antitrust Case Wraps With Apple Deal on Center Stage
20Oct By adminNo Comments
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DOJ Google Antitrust Case Wraps With Apple Deal on Center Stage

[ad_1] Google pays as much as $10 billion per year to ensure that users access the internet through its search engine — payments that have blocked startups and fellow tech giants Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. from competing, according to the US Justice Department.This week, federal enforcers will rest their antitrust case against Alphabet Inc.'s search engine, the biggest tech monopoly case since Microsoft in the 1990s. The move marks the halfway point in the 10-week trial, after which Google gets to present a defense against the allegations and perhaps explain why it pays rivals to use the search technology it argues is simply superior. Judge Amit Mehta isn't expected to issue a decision until next year, though any resolution to the case is expected to drag out for years with appeals ...
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The Amazon antitrust lawsuit is likely to be a long and arduous journey for the FTC
11Oct By adminNo Comments
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The Amazon antitrust lawsuit is likely to be a long and arduous journey for the FTC

[ad_1] Amazon is heading into one of its biggest sales events of the year — Prime Day — with a lawsuit hanging over its head that accuses it of preventing sellers from hawking their merchandise at lower prices on other sites.The Federal Trade Commission's long-awaited antitrust case is the agency's most aggressive move yet to tame the market power of Amazon, a company that's become synonymous with online shopping and fast deliveries. Under chair Lina Khan, the agency hasn't been shy about taking big swings against some of America's biggest companies and testing the limits of competition law to reverse what many of her supporters see as decades of weak antitrust enforcement. But that approach has also led to some high-profile setbacks, most notably in the FTC's bid to block Microsoft's t...
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Google Search Is Like ‘Cigarettes or Drugs,’ Executive Said
30Sep By adminNo Comments
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Google Search Is Like ‘Cigarettes or Drugs,’ Executive Said

[ad_1] A senior Google executive once likened the company's search advertising business to selling drugs, calling it “one of the world's greatest business models ever created” since the company can “ignore” users and focus on generating revenue from advertising.Michael Roszak, vice president for finance at Alphabet Inc.'s Google, wrote the notes during a July 2017 training Google offered on communications. “Search advertising is one of the world's greatest business models ever created,” Roszak wrote, adding that there were only “illicit businesses (cigarettes or drugs) that could rival these economics.” Google's business can effectively “ignore one of the fundamental laws of economics,” Roszak wrote, supply and demand. This allowed the company to “ignore the demand side of the equation ...
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Apple to Testify It Sees No Need to Deploy Google Search Alternative on iPhones
27Sep By adminNo Comments
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Apple to Testify It Sees No Need to Deploy Google Search Alternative on iPhones

[ad_1] Apple Inc.'s services chief, set to testify in Washington Tuesday, plans to defend the lucrative deal that made Google's search engine the default option on the iPhone, saying it was the best choice for consumers.Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of services and the architect of the agreement, is taking the stand at a Department of Justice trial against Google, which the government says used its dominance in search to hinder competition. Cue plans to say he has always believed that Google makes the best search engine — and that's why Apple uses it as the go-to option across its major devices — according to a person familiar with his expected testimony. Google pays Apple billions of dollars for this prominent position on products like the iPhone, making the agreement of part...
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DuckDuckGo CEO says it takes ‘Too Many Steps’ to switch from Google
22Sep By adminNo Comments
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DuckDuckGo CEO says it takes ‘Too Many Steps’ to switch from Google

[ad_1] DuckDuckGo, a privacy-centric search engine founded about 15 years ago, has languished with a small market share as consumers face difficulties switching from Google when the behemoth is the default option on computer screens, the upstart's founder said in an antitrust trial.“Switching is way harder than it needs to be,” Chief Executive Officer Gabriel Weinberg said in federal court on Thursday. “There's just too many steps.” Weinberg testified Thursday in the government's antitrust trial against Google's parent, Alphabet Inc. The Department of Justice claims Google pays more than $10 billion a year to tech rivals, smartphone makers and wireless providers to be the preselected option, or default, on PCs and mobile phones. By illegally maintaining this monopoly, the government all...
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Google’s AI chatbot goes personal tapping into Gmail
21Sep By adminNo Comments
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Google’s AI chatbot goes personal tapping into Gmail

[ad_1] Google on Tuesday said it had integrated Gmail, YouTube and other tools into its Bard chatbot as the tech giants seek to persuade users that generative AI is useful and not dangerous or just a fad.The search engine juggernaut has for years discreetly developed AI powers, but was caught off guard when OpenAI late last year released ChatGPT and teamed up with Microsoft to make its capabilities available to users worldwide. Google then raced out its own Bard chatbot earlier this year, making it available in more than 40 languages and overcoming data privacy concerns from regulators in Europe. The company said its beefed up chatbot would allow users to carry out new tasks such as summarize a confusing string of emails into its main points or tap into Google Maps to find the best way ...
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