Google Podcasts will end operations in 2024
Credit: iJunkie Next year, Google Podcasts will be discontinued, and YouTube Music will take its place. Despite being around since 2018, Google Podcasts has not really made much progress in comparison to its top competitors. All its structures will now be collapsed into YouTube and YouTube Music. Considering that both apps have a sizable market share in terms of podcasting, this seems like a great idea. There is still enough time to...
TikTok and Google are reportedly considering a new partnership
According to Business Insider, TikTok and Google are currently exploring a new business partnership that would integrate Google search prompts into TikTok’s own search stream. According to Radu Oncescu, an app researcher, TikTok users are now beginning to see a new prompt appear within their search results in the app. This comes with a CTA to expand their search on Google. The company is experimenting with third-party...
Google’s EU Antitrust Fine: Navigating the Tech Giant’s Regulatory Challenge
In the ever-evolving landscape of tech giants and their global reach, Google has long been a prominent player. With its dominance in the search engine market, the company has faced numerous legal battles and regulatory challenges over the years. One of the most significant of these challenges was the European Union’s (EU) antitrust fine, which sent shockwaves through the tech industry and raised important questions about...
Google Meet welcomes new features, including increased participant limit
Google Meet has welcomed a couple of new features, including an increased participant limit, which has now been upgraded to 150. This and other elements are part of the new updates rolled out by Google recently. According to Google, individual Google Meet subscribers will soon welcome an expanded participant limit of 150 and the chance to assign more than one co-host to meetings. A new transcript feature that lets you go back to...
Google confirms date for inactive account deletion
Google has started sending out emails to users whose accounts have been inactive for up to two years. According to the email, the company said it would start deleting such accounts on December 1, 2023. An account is said to be active, according to Google, when a user signs in or is signed in to his accounts. Some of the actions that constitute activities in an account, according to Google, include: Reading or sending an email Using...
Google Expands AI-Powered Search Engine in India, Japan
Google’s AI-Powered Search Engine Are you one of the lucky ones who could access Google Search Labs? If you are one of them, then you should try the generative AI search tool. Google just added reference links within the Search Generative Experience (SGE). Before this update, users had to click on a small icon in the upper right-hand corner to know where the SGE was obtaining its sources. After clicking on the icon, the corroborating...