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14 votes
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Google’s auto-delete tools are practically worthless for privacy
9 votes -
Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in real time, even when offline
7 votes -
An analysis of the implications of using Google's G Suite products in a newsroom
10 votes -
Can a machine learn to write for the New Yorker?
6 votes -
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would invest an additional 600 million euros into its Hamina data center next year
3 votes -
TCL Communication announces the Alcatel GO FLIP 3 and Alcatel SMARTFLIP, the first flip phones with Google Assistant
5 votes -
Google's Wing will test deliveries using drones from FedEx Express, Walgreens, and Sugar Magnolia in Christianburg, Virginia
6 votes -
Huawei’s flagship Mate 30 Pro has impressive specs but no Google
4 votes -
Coalition of fifty US attorneys general launch antitrust investigation into Google
17 votes -
The stakes are too high for Apple to spin the iPhone exploits
6 votes -
US Department of Justice demands Apple and Google hand over names of 10,000+ users of a gun scope app
11 votes -
In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior
9 votes -
Google and YouTube will pay record $170 million for alleged violations of US children’s privacy law
6 votes -
Android 10 has been released
13 votes -
Android Q is officially named Android 10
14 votes -
Google to pay up to $200M to settle FTC investigation into YouTube over violations of children's privacy laws
7 votes -
Google and Dell team up to take on Microsoft with Chromebook Enterprise laptops
8 votes -
Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection
17 votes -
Google delays classic Hangouts transition for G Suite until 2020
5 votes -
[Chrome 82, 2020Q2] Deprecate FTP support
7 votes -
'Where's the line of free speech – are you removing voices that should be heard?': As YouTube struggles with extreme content, Susan Wojcicki talks about her role as the internet’s gatekeeper
11 votes -
Three years of misery inside Google, the happiest company in tech
22 votes -
The surprising history of copyright and what it means for Google
4 votes -
How would one go about removing Google from one's life?
I have an android phone and my main email is a gmail. I'd like to somehow de-googlefy myself if at all possible. I don't have facebook so that isn't really a concern.
35 votes -
The Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information has banned Google from listening to Google Home recordings in the EU for three months
9 votes -
YouTube trolls advertise fake homeless shelter, tricking 'desperate' California residents and harassing a social media personality
7 votes -
Datacentre at Hamina and technology training hub in Helsinki illustrate Google's growing interest in Finland
3 votes -
YouTube said it was getting serious about hate speech. Over six weeks later, why is it still full of extremists?
23 votes -
Justice Department to open broad, new antitrust review of Big Tech companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Apple
10 votes -
Intel prepares to graft Google's bfloat16 onto processors
6 votes -
Google is trying to convince Congress that there's competition in the search industry, but recent statistics show it owns 92% of the market
20 votes -
How US tech giants are helping to build China’s surveillance state
8 votes -
Microsoft 365, Google cloud and Apple cloud deemed illegal in Schools of Hesse
13 votes -
Lyrics website Genius.com accuses Google of lifting its content
25 votes -
Middle East dictators buy spy tech from company linked to IBM and Google
8 votes -
Google employees are systematically listening to audio files recorded by Google Home smart speakers and the Google Assistant smartphone app
23 votes -
Google’s 4,000-word privacy policy is a secret history of the internet
7 votes -
Google faces contempt charge for failing to remove defamatory reviews
10 votes -
The fight for the future of YouTube
9 votes -
UK ISP group names Mozilla 'Internet Villain' for supporting 'DNS-over-HTTPS'
34 votes -
YouTube announces upcoming changes to give you more control over what videos appear on your homepage and in Up Next suggestions
15 votes -
Google Maps is filled with millions of false business addresses created by firms pretending to be nearby
13 votes -
YouTube under US Federal investigation over allegations it violates children’s privacy
9 votes -
Google is enabling RCS independently of mobile operators in the UK and France this month
10 votes -
Interview with Google's login chief about passwords vs. single sign-on
8 votes -
The new wilderness
9 votes -
You (probably) don't need ReCAPTCHA
26 votes -
I believe Google search is restricting what articles I can see in my searches, based on my location. What can I do?
Whenever I search for information about something - especially about a news event - Google returns me a lot of results from Australian sites. Any foreign sites come further down the list,...
Whenever I search for information about something - especially about a news event - Google returns me a lot of results from Australian sites. Any foreign sites come further down the list, sometimes even on the second page of results. I've never really paid much attention to this behaviour, beyond some occasional mild frustration at not being able to find local sources.
However, this came to a head this week when I was searching for a local US-based news article about something I'd read in an Australian news site, so I could post that local US article here on Tildes (I always try to get as close to the source as possible). But, try as I might, I just could not find any good non-Australian articles about this news! It was almost like Google was deliberately blocking my attempts to read non-Australian sites. I mean, it's possible that this news wasn't reported outside Australia, but that's unlikely, seeing as it was Uber's announcement about trialling electric aircraft in Texas and Victoria. That had to get American coverage. But I struggled to find it in my searches.
I then noticed something I've never noticed before: at the bottom of my Google searches, there's a small line which tells me my current location. It's as specific as my local council area, not just my state or the country.
Is this location affecting what Google shows me in my searches? If so, how do I remove this restriction?
For context: I use Chrome, but I only sign in when I'm accessing a Google service (usually the Calendar). After I've finished with the service, I sign out. So Google isn't tracking me as a person, it's just tracking my browser's search activity.
EDIT: Thank you all. I've already set up DuckDuckGo as my default search engine, and am trying it out.
16 votes -
Alphabet-owned Jigsaw built a fake political site and then hired a Russian troll campaign to attack it
12 votes