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Google app beta now lets you search on behalf of your lazy friends

 

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This week we're launching six new media literacy activities for Be Internet Awesome, designed to help kids analyze and evaluate media as they navigate the internet.

Helping kids learn to evaluate what they see online

Be Internet Awesome

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1144317824900317184

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Exclusive: Google appears to have leveraged Android dominance -...

A 14-page order from the Competition Commission of India (CCI), reviewed by Reuters this week, found Google’s restrictions on manufacturers seemed to amount to imposition of “unfair conditions” under India’s competition law.

By making pre-installation of Google’s proprietary apps conditional, Google “reduced the ability and incentive of device manufacturers to develop and sell devices operated on alternate versions of Android”, the CCI said in the order. “It amounts to prima facie leveraging of Google’s dominance”.

CCI said Google was engaged in anti-competitive practices “with the aim of cementing Google’s dominant position”.

The Indian case is similar to one Google faced in Europe, where regulators imposed a $5 billion fine on the company for forcing manufacturers to pre-install its apps on Android devices.

In India, about 99 percent of the smartphones sold this year used the platform, Counterpoint Research estimates.

 

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Google search on Chrome desktop showing website logo and address on top. Looks like the new redesign is coming to desktop.

 

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Google for India live stream, September 19, 2019.

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1173611518027542528

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Our biggest renewable energy purchase ever

 

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A more accessible internet for Indians

 

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Jeff Dean says the company is trying to build systems that have general smarts, rather than highly specialized intelligence.

Google's AI Chief Wants to Do More With Less (Data)