Google Assistant to get multiple new languages, distribution and skills

The Assistant will soon speak 30 languages and be able to offer mobile carrier customer support.

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Spotted: Links to competing shopping engines in UK Google Shopping results

The new look is in response to the European Commission’s antritrust ruling against Google, but it may not satisfy rivals.

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Google, Getty Images enter a multi-year global licensing partnership

The deal effectively ends Getty’s European antitrust complaint against Google.

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Effective July 2018, Google’s Chrome browser will mark non-HTTPS sites as ‘not secure’

After years of pushing for ‘secure by default’ web sites, Google will identify insecure sites in the Chrome browser beginning mid-Summer.

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Google Assistant adds new media capabilities ahead of HomePod release

You can now wake up to a favorite playlist and use voice to pick up where you left off with Netflix shows.

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Google EU shopping rivals complain antitrust remedies aren’t working

They’re demanding more changes, saying their problems have intensified rather than improved since the EC ruling in June, 2017.

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Why SEOs Will Always Have Jobs…

The chatter amongst the SEOratti is that Voice Search, AI, Machine Learning and SkyNet are a-coming and you better either get ready or prepare for extinction. If it pleases Twitter, in rebuttal, may I present Exhibit #532 in the case for Shotland’s Law (“The better something looks on the surface, the worse it looks underneath”). […]

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Merkle Q4 2017: Search ad click growth fell, ad spend rose 23% across Google, Bing, Yahoo

Bing and Yahoo saw search ad spend jump 32 percent over prior year in Q4 among Merkle’s client base. Google spend growth slowed slightly from Q3.

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