Jaikumar Vijayan

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 […]

Google’s efforts to push broad adoption of Rich Communication Services for cross-operator messaging on mobile devices appear to be gaining traction. The company announced on Nov. 4 that it has launched RCS messaging for Sprint customers that are using Android phones. The new support will allow Android users to conduct group chats, send high-resolution photos, […]

Google this week once again formally rejected charges in the European Union that the manner in which it displays results on Google Shopping harms rival comparison-shopping sites. In a blog post, Kent Walker, Google’s senior vice president and general counsel, defended the company’s approach to online shopping searches and said that the changes demanded by […]