Associated Newspapers and Mail Media file antitrust lawsuit against Google over ads

MailOnline/DailyMail.com is suing Google for alleged anti-competitive behavior over the search giant’s ability to exploit its dominance in the ad tech industry to harm rivals and manipulate ad auctions and news search results in a way that punishes online publishers. The anti-trust lawsuit against Google was filed in the US District Court in New York … Read more

Mail files antitrust lawsuit against Google

Mailonline/DailyMail.com is suing Google for alleged anti-competitive behavior over the search giant’s ability to exploit its dominance in the ad tech industry to harm rivals and manipulate ad auctions and news search results in a way that punishes online publishers. The anti-trust lawsuit against Google was filed in the US District Court in New York … Read more

Google adds COVID vaccination sites to its Maps to help you get the jab

With the arrival of numerous effective vaccines, the battle against COVID-19 has shifted to getting the jab to as many people as possible.  And now tech giant Google has added vaccination site locations to Google Map and Search in the US, Canada, France, Chile, India and Singapore in a bid to help speed up the process.  Users … Read more

Living in busy city doesn’t increase chances of catching Covid, says Iran contact-tracing app data

Living in a busy city doesn’t increase the chance of getting Covid-19, but overcrowding does, a new study reveals. Researchers analysed cases in Tehran, Iran, one of the early epicentres of the pandemic, using data from AC-19, Iran’s national Covid ‘detection’ app.  AC-19, which was withdrawn from Google‘s app store last year over alleged concerns of government spying, … Read more

Website reveals if you’re a Chrome user selected to trial a controversial new ad system

A useful website has been created, called ‘Am I FLoCed?’, which lets Google Chrome users know if they are one of the 0.5 per cent of people auto-enrolled in the so-called ‘origin trial’ of a new advertising technology which may eventually replace cookies.  Google recently announced it was ditching the highly-invasive and controversial  third-party cookies … Read more

Google Docs and Sheets are DOWN worldwide just as users start the work week

Google Docs and Sheets are DOWN! A number of the tech giant’s services crash worldwide just as users start the work week A number of Google services crashed Monday morning around 9:36AM ET Users worldwide report issues with Docs, Drive, Slides and Sheets  Google is aware of the problems  and is investigating issue reports By … Read more