The Google India report showed that overall recipe-related searches grew by 20 per cent on YouTube in the past few months.
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Google search results for ‘bad chief minister of India’ shows Pinarayi Vijayan
Thiruvananthapuram: Google search for ‘bad chief minister of India’ shows Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, the Wikipedia page of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan pops up upon searching his name. A quick bio of the leader followed by a tirade over the ensuing Sabarimala violence will follow in the search[Read More…]
Why googling ‘idiot’ brings up Donald Trump photos, Congresswoman asks Sundar Pichai
Washington: US Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren, in an effort to understand how Google search algorithms work, asked its CEO Sundar Pichai why so many pictures of President Donald Trump appear when she does a Google search for “idiot”. “Right now, if you Google the word ‘idiot’ under images, a picture[Read More…]
Type ‘Bitches near me’ and Google Maps show girls schools, women hostels
Earlier in the day, a Twitter handle going by the username AHappyChipmunk, stumbled upon a derogatory search query that brings Google’s search algorithm into question. According to the Twitter user, if one types “Bitches near me”, the search results on Google Maps are horrifying. The platform shows girls schools, colleges,[Read More…]
Google admits it tracks users when location history is turned off
Google has updated a help page for customers of mobile phones to acknowledge that they still can be tracked for using its Search or Maps services, even if they turn off the phone’s tracking feature. In the help page for the Location History setting, Google clarified, “This setting does not[Read More…]
Google works on tabular data search to assist ‘data journalism’
If asked, do you find Google results relevant? Majority would say a ‘Yes’. We often opt for a Google search for any image, video or textual information. Now Google moves ahead to make the tabular data search results more relevant. This progress was mapped out in the wake of the[Read More…]
Luxury, honeymoon destinations top winter searches: Google India
Holiday-related queries increased 27 per cent in 2017 winter, with most people searching for ‘luxury’, ‘honeymoon’, and ‘safari’ destinations on Google Search, the company said on Wednesday. Seychelles, Maldives and Bali were on top of the honeymooners’ international search list this season with 40 per cent rise in these queries.[Read More…]
Apple replaces Bing with Google search in Siri and Spotlight
Apple has shifted default provider of its web searches for Siri on iOS and Spotlight on the Mac to Google from Bing. Thus, if you ask Siri to search something on the internet, you will get Google results instead of Bing now. Apple’s browser Safari already uses Google search as[Read More…]
Google introduces ‘offensive’ flag to improve search quality
Google is striving to boost the quality of its search results by guiding their review team to label any such content which could possibly be offensive. The method is not going to have a straight effect on the search result, however; it will trigger the company’s software so that better[Read More…]