Jaikumar Vijayan

Google has made changes to the search algorithm in its Play Store so users can find higher quality Android apps more easily while poor quality ones are buried. The change is designed to ensure that people looking for apps on Google’s mobile app store, do not get frustrated by poor quality software. According to Google, […]

New machine learning tools are helping Google make substantial progress in weeding out terror content on YouTube and other online properties, the company claimed this week. In a blog, members of the YouTube team said Google has recently begun developing and implementing “cutting-edge” machine learning technology to identify and remove extremist and terrorism-related videos from […]

The company this week announced what it described as an extensive redesign of its Search Console feature for monitoring and maintaining website performance on Google Search. The redesign, according to Google, is intended to meet at least three major objectives—to give webmasters more actionable insights, to better support organizational workflows and to enable a faster […]

Google this week announced general availability of a new peer-to-peer networking Application Programming Interface (API) that enables Android mobile applications to communicate with nearby devices even when they are offline. The Nearby Connections API enables what Google describes as low latency, high-bandwidth fully encrypted P2P data transfers between Android devices that are in close proximity […]

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has asked the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate a Google advertising program that it says links an individual’s in-store purchases with their online activity. In a complaint filed with the FTC, the Washington D.C.-based EPIC accused Google of collecting personal information from billions of credit and debit card […]

Google has committed to using machine learning and Artificial Intelligence technologies to make its products and services smarter and more intuitive in future. To achieve this goal, the company has invested substantially to build up its capabilities in both these areas in recent years. Now it wants to help startups from around the world that […]

Google this week released details of a sophisticated new family of spyware tools that the company recently blocked from its Play mobile app store after discovering the malware being used against some Android users. The spyware family, dubbed Lipizzan, appears to have been developed by Equus Technologies, a company that Google referred to as a […]

Google’s considerable efforts at making its cloud services offerings more enterprise ready appears to be finally paying off. For the quarter ended June 30, the company closed three times as many deals worth $500,000 or more compared to the same period last year, CEO Sundar Pichai said in the company’s second quarter earnings call July […]

Profits at Google parent Alphabet, for the quarter ended June 30, dropped by nearly 28 percent compared to the same quarter last year as the result of the massive $2.7 billion fine imposed on the company in the European Union last in June. With the charge, Alphabet earned $3.5 billion on revenues of $26.01 billion […]

Users of Gmail, Docs and other Google G Suite applications will now receive stronger warnings than before when they attempt to interact with new web applications. Google this week rolled out a new “unverified app” screen for web applications and application scripts that the company has not yet had a chance to verify. The warning […]