Google will delete billions of browsing records to settle privacy lawsuit: court filing

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Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California.

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Top websites block Google from training AI models on their data. Nowhere near as much as OpenAI, though.

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Sundar Pichai on stage at Google IO 2023

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Direct File is the most important tech product of 2024, helping you to finally file your taxes for free

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US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies about a federal budget proposal in Washington DC.

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Google is getting worse as it loses its fight against search engine spam

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Google Search is the world's most popular search engine. But researchers say it's not as good as it used to be.

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Inside the first 'SEO heist' of the AI era

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A simple way to fix search: Bright pink ads

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This throwaway line in a Stephen Colbert interview should make Google nervous

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Taylor Tomlinson said TikTok is the new Google on a late night appearance last week.

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The SEO world is up in arms after a story said they're 'ruining the internet.' Here's the spicy drama.

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Did SEO practitioners ruin the internet? A story in The Verge has some SEO'ers up in arms after a spicy headline suggested they might be responsible for an increasingly poor Google Search experience.

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