Свежие новости и отзывы о Google

В ответ на жалобы пользователей Google добавил в поисковый интерфейс для планшетов опцию pinch-to-zoom (масштабирование движением двух пальцев).   «Спасибо каждому из вас за постоянную обратную связь! Мы услышали вас и добавили опцию pinch-to-zoom на планшетах», - сообщил о запуске представитель Google AJ в обсуждении на форуме Google Web Search Help. Напомним, что в начале этого месяца Google запустил новый интерфейс поисковой выдачи на планшетах. Пользователи негативно восприняли нововведение и просили... →

Google today announced that it has acquired Bebop, a very stealthy startup founded by VMware cofounder Diane Greene. Greene is now the head of all of Google’s cloud businesses, Google’s chief executive, Sundar Pichai, wrote in a blog post on the news. “Bebop is a new development platform that makes it easy to build and […]... →

Weakening encryption to help the government monitor electronic communications in the name of national security "simply does not make sense," the Information Technology Industry Council said...... →

Developing algorithmic changes to search involves a process of experimentation . Part of that experimentation is having evaluators"people who assess the quality of Google's search results"give us feedback on our experiments. Ratings from evaluators do not determine individual site rankings, but are used help us understand our experiments.... →

В обновлении сервиса Google Hangouts появится возможность совершать видеозвонки пользователям, у которых нет аккаунта в Google. Обновление выпустят уже на этой неделе, сказано в сообщении в официальном блоге компании.... →

If you’re an avid user of Google Hangouts at work, then this update will make you happy. Google Apps for Work users were able to invite outside guests to video calls as of last year, but the team has upped the anti, making a Google account unnecessary to join in: Starting today, we’re making this feature even more useful by removing the requirement that guests have a Google account… Read More... →

Google Fit has been largely overshadowed by Apple’s personal health data aggregation platform, HealthKit, but at least it’s starting to add some new features. Google announced today that, at long last, Google Fit can intake data from other popular fitness and food tracking apps like MyFitnessPal, Fatsecret, Lifesum, or LoseIt. It’ll bring also sleep data from […]... →

From the far-reaching design impact made by Apple’s Jony Ive to the leadership of Sundar Pichai at Google, the tech space – and quite literally the world – would not be the same if countless world-class engineers, entrepreneurs, designers and disruptors hadn’t taken a leap of faith and brought their talents stateside. Read More... →

Social news aggregator Nuzzel has raised $1.7 million in new funding from a bunch of individual investors including Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff, Google’s Matt Cutts, SoftBank’s vice chairman Nikesh Arora, and others. This announcement comes as the company evolves its social aggregator product — it’s now available to everyone, meaning that you don’t need to have […]... →

Google today announced an update to Google Hangouts that means you can add anyone to a video call, even if they don’t have an account. While you could previously call anyone on their phone, even if they didn’t have an account, you can now add anyone to the call by just giving them a link. […]... →

LiquidTalent has today launched out of beta, offering companies a marketplace to find high-quality developer and designer talent on-demand both on the web and mobile. The company was founded by Alex Abelin, Google’s former public affairs manager, under the premise that developers and designers (as well as the companies hiring them) want to work as freelancers with more freedom as opposed… Read More... →

Let's take a closer look at what the Knowledge Graph is, then move on to explain how you can best influence it to drive more visitors to your website. The post How to Maximize Your Reach Using Google's Knowledge Graph by @ab80 appeared first on Search Engine Journal .... →

As the holiday shopping season starts to get into full swing, Google this morning announced a brand-new design for its Shopping vertical, the Google Shopping search engine. This is the largest mobile redesign the service has had to date, and it offers a variety of new elements aimed at helping consumers better discover and locate products they’re interested in, says Google. That also… Read More... →

Brightbridge Ventures gave $6.1 million to financial tech startup SalaryFinance for its latest funding round, the U.K.-based company announced today. Founded by Google U.K. alumni Dan Cobley, SalaryFinance offers a financial benefit service for employees that allows them to pay personal debts directly from their paycheck at low interest rates, the company says.... →

Влад Флакс, руководитель компании OWOX, которая специализируется на внедрении Google Analytics Premium в ecommerce-проекты, написал для vc.ru колонку о том, какими системами аналитики пользуются топ-100 российских ecommerce-проектов — чтобы показать, как это влияет на успех предприятия.... →

This fall, shopping-related searches on mobile surpassed desktop, signaling a shift from shopping marathons to shopping moments . 1 To help shoppers more easily discover, browse and buy on mobile this holiday season, we've redesigned Google Shopping to be incredibly fast, seamless, and intuitive.... →

С ее помощью рекламодатели смогут протестировать текущие кампании и быстро внести в них изменения... →

French members of parliament (MPs) have voted to give the government extra powers to block online communications when the country is under a “state of emergency.” The French National Assembly passed Amendment 50 today, which sees the following paragraph included in the legislation [Google Translate used]: “II. – Minister of the Interior may take any […]... →

Google announced incredibly important news not just for SEOs but for the future of their index and ranking reach. Google is now ranking content within apps that do not have web content matches. Let me explain that better, which I normally wouldn't bother doing...... →

Google has pushed out a revised version of the Google Search app for iOS, you can get it over here. This is a big version number update...... →