Some nice momentum for privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo which has just announced it’s hit 30 million daily searches a year after reaching 20M — a year-on-year increase of 50%. Hitting the first 10M daily searches took the search engine a full seven years, and then it was another two to get to 20M. So as […]

Google is losing hundreds of millions of dollars in search advertising revenue to consumer brands that are finding more success buying ads with Amazon.com, CNBC reports, citing six unnamed sources in the advertising industry. In some cases, specific consumer packaged brands have reportedly shifted half of their search ad budget from Alphabet Inc.-owned Google to Amazon. Thats particularly true fo...

Today were announcing .page, the newest top-level domain (TLD) from Google Registry.A TLD is the last part of a domain name, like .com in google.com or .google in blog.google (the site youre on right now). The .page TLD is a new opportunity for anyone to build an online presence. Whether youre writing a blog, getting your business online, or promoting your latest project, .page makes it simple an...

Its a hot day in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the Google Accessibility User Experience team is being shown around the city. Their goal for the next 10 days is to understand the daily experience of various people living with disabilities in this city of more than 10 million people. Notebooks are out, cameras are rolling and Rachmad (a pseudonym), a student who is blind, is eager to share some of his ex...

Google Assistant -- the search engine giant's digital personal assistant that can answer questions, set alarms, play music, and more -- turned two earlier this month.

Snapchat is partnering with Amazon to bring visual search based commerce, or AR-Commerce, to the intrepid messaging platform. Can it work? I tested it out.Figure 1. Amazons app scan points attempt to create a search query via my iPhones camera.Snapchat recently announced the pilot of an innovative visual shopping feature, in partnership with the uncontested leader in shopping experience innovatio...

Weve spent the last year working with partners to bring thousands of new devices on board to work with the Google Assistant. As of today, there are more than 200 million devices in peoples homes, made up of over 10,000 smart devices from over 1,000 brandsincluding Nest, LG, ADT, August, Simplisafe, Vivnt and VIZIOthat work with the Google Assistant. Weve also expanded our offerings in categories ...

Hong Kong has long been an international hub for finance and business. But now new kinds of entrepreneurs who dont wear power suits or cut deals in boardrooms have emerged in the city. Thirteen-year-old CEO Hillary Yip struggled with learning Mandarin, so she designed a language learning app for children thats used in more than 20 countries today. Mama Cheung, a home-maker found a second career a...