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By Susan Wojcicki A personal update from Susan on stepping back from her role as CEO of YouTube. Editor’s note: This note was sent to YouTube employees earlier this morning. Hi YouTubers, Twenty-five years ago I made the decision to join a couple of Stanford graduate students who were building a new search engine. Their names were Larry and Sergey. I saw the potential of what they were buil...

I got a new smart thermostat for Christmas, and it’s awesome! I can check and adjust the temperatures from anywhere, and, using a technology called artificial intelligence, it stealthily lowers the temperature in our house without us realizing it. Similar to how the clueless frog adjusts to boiling water, we now often find ourselves in the family room bundled in sweaters and gloves, the thermos...

“We think of it, humbly, as the next generation of search and browsing.” That was a comment by Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft corporate vice president and consumer chief marketing officer, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, introducing new AI-powered versions of the Bing search engine and Edge web browser. In an unbylined post Wednesday night, however, Microsoft’s Bing team said the technology is “not a replacement o...

On Content People, host Meredith Farley interviews creative professionals and leaders to get a behind-the-scenes look at their career experiences and turn that into actionable advice for listeners. Tune in to hear from experts in various media, and get inspired to find contentment in your own creative career. Episode #10 Summary Ellen Gillis, founder of Gillis Group, joins Meredith Farley t...

Google LLC sent out the tech equivalent of an “all hands on deck” alarm to its employees on Wednesday in response to a threat posed to its search dominance — the new capabilities of Microsoft Corp.’s Bing. CNBC reported that Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and parent corporation Alphabet Inc., sent an email to all employees that asked them to spend two to four hours trying out Bard, the company’s ...

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 16, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NP Digital, a leader in performance marketing, unveils a new feature in its popular keyword research and content ideation tool, AnswerThePublic offering users in-depth search volume and cost-per-click (CPC) data. The new addition enhances the platform’s value for content creators and marketers seeking to boost their online presence. Search volume and ...

/ A search engine that guilt-trips you isn’t just creepy — it’s bad product design. A while back, there was a little debate over whether to say “please” and “thank you” to smart speakers. Amazon Alexa added a mode that rewarded children who were polite to their devices, attempting to avoid, as the BBC put it, a generation of children who “grew up accustomed to barking orders” at machines. This ...

The Supreme Court is about to reconsider Section 230, a law that’s been foundational to the internet for decades. But whatever the court decides might end up changing the rules for a technology that’s just getting started: artificial intelligence-powered search engines like Google Bard and Microsoft’s new Bing. Next week, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Gonzalez v. Google, one of two c...

Comment Still on the waiting list for Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing search features? No? Well, me neither, but CTO Kevin Scott recently let slip an amazing new use case that couldn’t possibly be done with a boring, old-fashioned search engine like Google. Here it comes. Are you ready? Translating Gen Z slang. Wow. Speaking to the New York Times podcast Hard Fork, Scott mentioned when extolling th...

In a new study published by Oxford University Press, experts describe how television shows can ultimately benefit the planet. The research confirms that nature documentaries inspire people to become interested in plants, and to seek out more information about them. “Plants underpin life on Earth and are essential to human existence. Alarmingly, almost 40% of plant species are under threat of ex...