Today's launch of Google's new IM and voice over IP client, Google Talk, may not have been a shocker (as rumours circulated earlier this week) but it holds more significance than the usual product ...

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The experience with Google Maps keeps getting better, not necessarily thanks to the release of new features but following the expansion of new-generation capabilities to users worldwide. The search ...

Google’s Gary Illyes’ answer about authorship shared insights about why Google has less trust for signals that are under direct control of site owners and SEOs and provides a better understanding ...

Google has been taking heat for some of the inaccurate, funny and downright weird answers that it’s been providing via AI Overviews in search. Don’t be disappointed if you don’t get those answers ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The podcast app is only the latest good Google thing to die. And if Google ever wants us to buy into its promises ...