Jaikumar Vijayan

Google is giving Website owners a new way to stand out in search results. The company has introduced a formatting feature in Google Search it is calling “rich cards” that it says will give site owners a way to present a better preview of their content in search results. Rich cards build on Google’s rich […]

Enterprises that are still using Web servers or email servers running the long obsolete SSLv3 or RC4 cryptographic protocols have one month to update to more recent versions if they want to continue to exchange mail with Google’s mail servers. After June 16, 2016, Google will formally disable support for both SSLv3 and RC4 on […]

Continuing a move it began last year, Google will phase out default support for the Adobe Flash multimedia player in its Chrome browser by the end of 2016. A slide presentation that Google apparently recently published shows that Flash Player would continue to be bundled with Chrome, even after the end of the year. However, […]

Google has made it easier for Website owners to see how their sites are faring in organic search results by more tightly integrating Search Console metrics with Google Analytics metrics. The integration will allow site owners to combine data from both sources more easily to get a holistic view of the factors affecting their Website’s […]

Mobile-device administrators at organizations that have signed up for the premium business version of Google Apps now have a new tool for auditing activities on managed Android and iOS devices. Google’s new Mobile Audit feature, announced this week, gives Google Apps administrators a way to audit activities like operating system updates, application installations, or removals […]

Nest on May 11 released Open Thread, an open-source version of the networking protocol that allows the company’s smart thermostat and other home automation products to connect to each other and to the Internet of things. Nest’s goal is to speed up the development of connected home products by eliminating the need for developers to […]

The general response to Google’s move to test black links in search results instead of the usual blue is a reminder of why it’s almost never a good idea to fix things that aren’t broken. Google this week, for reasons it hasn’t fully explained, began testing the use of black links in search results for […]

Starting this week, regular readers of Google News stories should start seeing a new “Local Source” tag highlighting local coverage of major news stories. The tag is designed to ensure that the work done by local news outlets in discovering and researching stories affecting their communities is not overshadowed if the story were to be […]

Google has integrated its BigQuery data warehouse technology for large-scale data analytics with Google Drive. Starting this week, businesses using BigQuery will be able to save their query results directly from the data warehouse user interface to Google Sheets. The integration will let BigQuery users query files from Google Drive, without having to load the […]

Users of Google’s slide presentation application now have an option to make presentations a more interactive experience for their audience. The company this week rolled out an update to Google Slides that it says gives users a way to collect real-time feedback from people who are watching a slide presentation. The new Slides Q&A feature […]