Jaikumar Vijayan

Google is offering help for shoppers trying to figure out when and how to avoid the crowds this holiday shopping season. The company this week announced a new real-time component to its Popular Times feature in Google Search and Maps that lets people check how busy a particular shopping location is at that moment. The […]

Google this week introduced a completely revamped version of its Google Sites enterprise webpage and wiki-creation tool. The new version of the tool, which Google has previously described as one of its most popular enterprise products, is designed to make it easier for employees to create and share content within the enterprise via team websites. […]

Google’s recently released Android Nougat-powered Pixel smartphones offer a whole new level of data protection because of their built in encryption capabilities, the company said this week. In a blog post Google senior software engineers Paul Crowley and Paul Lawrence said the new data security capabilities made Pixel and Pixel XL better, faster and stronger […]

Google and Intel will explore new ways of using their respective technologies to deliver high-end cloud services for enterprises. The two technology giants this week announced a strategic alliance that will focus on technology integrations and joint marketing efforts. The partnership builds on an existing relationship between the two companies under which Google has been […]

Google has released a new Application Programming Interface (API) that it says can help organizations improve their employee recruitment process. The company’s Google Cloud Jobs API is intended for enterprise career sites, applicant tracking systems and job boards. The API use machine-learning techniques to understand and anticipate a job seeker’s preferences and match them to […]

Google this week joined Facebook in announcing that it would restrict revenue-generating advertisements from being placed on websites purveying fake news. The move appears to be in response to the criticism that both companies have received in recent days for allowing some websites to distribute fake news pertaining to the recent U.S. presidential election. Some […]

Google uses machine-learning technologies in multiple applications including Translate, Photos and Inbox by Gmail. Starting this week, the company’s Google Play Music streaming service will begin to use it, as well. Google’s newly revamped Google Play Music will leverage machine learning techniques to first figure out an individual listener’s music tastes and preferences. The app […]

Starting this week, websites that keep violating Google’s Safe Browsing standard will be slapped with a “Repeat Offender” tag. Google’s Chrome browser and other popular browsers will display a notice to users who visit such sites warning them about the potential for their computers to become infected with unwanted software, malware, phishing and other security […]

If Google ever ends up paying a fine to the European Commission (EC) for on it’s complaint the company engages in anti-competitive practices much like Microsoft did in 2013, it certainly won’t be for a lack of trying to prevent that from happening. In what’s become something of a familiar pattern for the company, Google […]

Google has decided to pull the plug on its free Map Maker tool that people have used for more than eight years to make community edits to content in Google Maps. The company will formally retire Map Maker as a stand-alone product in March 2017 and integrate its features directly into Maps. Doing so will […]

Gmail on iOS has become a lot more similar to Gmail on Android, courtesy of several updates to the application that Google announced this week. The new Gmail app for iOS represents, what Google says, is the biggest overhaul of the application in four years. At a high level, the updated application features a new […]

Google has begun testing the use of the mobile version of a website’s content to rank pages from that site in its Search results, instead of using the desktop version of the content as the company has been doing all these years. The company’s search index will continue to be a single index of websites […]