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Everything Is Actually Google Chrome
Google Chrome is the world's most popular browser by a wide margin. Well, let's just say you want to be a contrarian and use some alternative browser, maybe Vivaldi or Opera or Torch. Unfortunately, those browsers are all actually the same as Chrome...
Alex · 03 February 2022 · 117
4 Fundamental Changes Happening with Google Analytics 4
Google Analytics 4 is out, and everyone is focusing on the new shiny features, the event tracking, the funnel analysis, maybe what is there, what is not yet there, but before you get wrapped up in trying to figure out Google Analytics 4 by your...
Alex · 2 years ago · 269
How Does Google Make Money? Google Business Model Explained
In this post I want to walk you through how Google makes their money. In other words, I'm going to explain Google's business model. Did you know that Google's parent company, Alphabet, in spite of owning several companies in many different indus...
Den W. · 29 March 2020 · 109
Android Beyond Phones, chromeos.dev, Go 1.15, and more!
This is your weekly update on the coolest developer news from Google. This summer the Android folks have been working on 11 Weeks of Android. And this week the talk was all about going beyond the phone to all of the different devices that Andr...
Alex · 22 August 2020 · 45
The one theory connecting Google, Facebook, and Amazon
There's a common thread connecting every billion dollar company online. You might think that Amazon, Facebook, and Google are in different businesses, but they're all powered by the same basic trick, a kind of business superpower that's let them take...
Jacob Enderson · 02 December 2020 · 135
Google and Apple Want More of Your Money...
In a way owning something connected to the internet is a lot like owning a car. It's not enough to just drop $25,000 on the vehicle and drive off, you've also gotta pay for gas, insurance, oil changes, and dank paint jobs, just to be able to keep usi...
Jacob Enderson · 16 December 2020 · 62
The Rise of AI Summarization: What Google Chrome's Latest Feature Means for the Future of Online Content
In today's fast-paced digital world, where information is readily available at our fingertips, Google Chrome's new AI summarization feature has sparked a debate about the future of article reading habits. This blog explores the potential consequences...
Brown Wolf · 27 August 2023 · 46
Google can shut down Australian search before paying for links
Free access to information is one of the hallmarks of the modern web. I mean, how many times have you fallen down a Wikipedia hole at two in the morning only to wake up the next morning tired out of your mind, but smarter? This concept, ironically,...
Kelly · 15 March 2021 · 103
How to Make Sense of Google’s Recent Algorithm Updates
Google has a set of rules, or “algorithms,” that help it find the best answers when you search for something. It uses these rules and different factors to show pages in order of their importance on what we call search results pages. When...
Elena Ristevska · 09 June 2023 · 99
Patchday: Critical malware vulnerabilities pose threat to Android 11, 12 and 13
Google and other Android device manufacturers have released their monthly collective security updates. Attackers can attack Android in many ways and paralyze devices via DoS attack or even execute malicious code. Some manufacturers have now released...
Kelly · 09 August 2023 · 49
Enhanced Security: Google Introduces Weekly Chrome Updates for Better Protection
Google is taking stronger action against security vulnerabilities and will soon roll out updates for Chrome every week. If you want to stay protected, you will have to restart the browser much more often. Google Chrome is the world's most widely used...
Kelly · 09 August 2023 · 39
From Betrayal to Innovation: How the Traitorous Eight Shaped Silicon Valley
THE TRAITOROUS EIGHT: These 8 backstabbed their professor and created their own company using his research. While that sounds pretty bad, they weren’t exactly trying to screw over their professor. They just wanted freedom and the ability to le...
Brown Wolf · 09 August 2023 · 20
How Google Alters the Public Domain of AI Creations
Google and Universal Music are negotiating royalties to "rights holders" for content generated by machine learning systems. The negotiations come amid a surge in the publication of fictitious AI-generated music tracks that mimic well-known tunes or voices of performers. The authors of such imitations are expected to be able to distribute them legal...
Kelly · 11 August 2023 · 42Syncing Google Sheets to a database via REST API’s
In this article, I will walk you through how to integrate a web-based ordering system with a Google Sheet. Imagine you work for a bike-sharing startup that has a bike ordering web app built on Node.js. If you're familiar with JavaScript, Node.js is...
Alex · 3 years ago · 471
Adobe XD support for Flutter, Architecture Framework, temporary closures with Places API, & more!
This is weekly update on the coolest developer news from Google. Adobe XD to Flutter plugin is now available as early access for broader public testing. Adobe XD is a UI/UX design and collaboration tool that helps teams create and share designs for...
Kelly · 3 years ago · 173
Android 11 review: the most important settings
When I first previewed the new features inside Android 11, I said that Android is a mature operating system. What that means is that unless some designer inside Google has a wild-eyed harebrained idea, things just aren't going to radically change tha...
Alex · 09 September 2020 · 49