Employees could only return to their Google offices on July 2021. The company made this decision for most of its staff, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
CEO Sundar Pichai mentioned that the company will extend the work from home option until June 30, next year. Still, this…
Sundar Pichai, the CEO for Google and Alphabet, announced the “Digitization Fund” plan for India. Thus, the company will invest $10bn in partnerships, ecosystem, operations and infrastructure.
In his post, Pichai emphasized that the company intends to create “new…
Google will open a new data centre in Poland and will be training 10,000 people only this year. Thus, the new data centre should support cloud services.
The company will invest about two billion dollars, according to Magdalena Dziewguc, head of Google Cloud business…
Less intrusive ads in videos, from Google
February 7, 2020
Google announced less intrusive ads in videos both in its Chrome browser and on YouTube. Thus, Chrome will block ads that play in the middle of videos up to 8 minutes long. Also, YouTube won’t show those ads in the first place.
The decision comes as Google wants to…
Oscars change Google search
February 5, 2020
As there are only five more days until the big night, Oscars change Google search. The company announced six ways Search and the Assistant can help users with this huge event.
Emily Fifer, Product Manager Google Search, wrote about each of the changes.
A dedicated…
Google announced it will kill the cookies
January 20, 2020
Google announced what the industry have feared for the last year – it will kill the cookies. This means that the Chrome browser will no longer support third-party cookies. The transition will take two years.
The move will affect all web users at some extent. Still, the…
Google removed 1.700 infected apps
January 10, 2020
Google removed 1.700 infected apps from its Play Store. The decision came after the company discovered the apps were carrying the Joker (or Bread) malware. This malware is involved in lobbying customers with SMS billing fraud. All these apps were all removed, even before…
Google to restrict political advertising
November 22, 2019
Google announced it would restrict political advertising before the UK General Elections and the US Presidential election, next year. The giant mentioned it will limit the election ad targeting to “age, gender, and general location.”
In a blog post, Scott Spencer, VP…
404 Error: Google to Restrict User's Data to Advertisers
November 19, 2019
Google’s notice about its intention to restrict user’s data to advertisers comes into a 404 Error. Just five days after it was published on the blog, the news can not be accessed anymore.
After many critics, Google announced it would be taking one more step to…
More ads from Google. Not for Ad Guardian Plus' users!
November 8, 2019
We will all have more ads from Google both on YouTube and on Google Images. Google announced a new shopping advertisment option for Google Images and two new visual ad options for YouTube. As explained by the company,
this decision was made to expand the opportunities for…