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Bringing Store ratings on Search to more countries

Google's Store Ratings
have been helping US merchants highlight the high quality experiences other shoppers have had right
from Search, and we're now bringing store ratings to English-language shopping searches in
...

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9 Oct 2024

Data residency for machine learning processing to be made available in the UK

Starting next month Google Cloud will expand our data residency commitment, enabling customers to conduct machine learning processing for Gemini 1.5 Flash within the UK.

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9 Oct 2024

Discover Dubai: A cultural journey on Google Arts & Culture

Discover Dubai's hidden gems & cultural stories with Google Arts & Culture. Explore art, innovation, & sustainability at g.co/dubaiculture!

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9 Oct 2024

DOJ’s radical and sweeping proposals risk hurting consumers, businesses, and developers

DOJ’s sweeping proposals for the Search case risk hurting consumers, businesses, and developers.

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9 Oct 2024

Third-party smart chips now available in Google Sheets

What’s changing Last year, we introduced the ability to pull rich data from apps directly into Google Docs with third-party smart chips. Since then, many users have embedded content from partner apps, including Asana, Jira & Confluence, Canva,...

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8 Oct 2024

7 pieces of AI news we announced in September

Here are seven of Google’s latest AI updates from September.

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8 Oct 2024

Automate meeting recording, transcripts and notes for your Google Meet meetings

What’s changingAdmins now have the option to configure meeting recordings, meeting transcripts, and “take notes for me”* as on by default for newly created meetings. Meeting hosts and co-hosts can edit these settings in the Calendar invite, as well as ...

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8 Oct 2024

Transcriptions now available for voice messages in Google Chat

What’s changing Earlier this year, we introduced the ability to send voice messages in Google Chat to help users save time, convey more information, and emphasize the most important information for the message receiver. To build upon this highly r...

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8 Oct 2024

Send video messages in Google Chat

What’s changing Earlier this year, we announced voice messages in Google Chat, giving users a new way to communicate with others more effectively. Today, we are introducing video messages in Chat, a new capability that helps you save time, convey ...

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7 Oct 2024

Ask responders for a rating in Google Forms

What’s changingTo add to the list of question types that users can respond to in Google Forms and enable the collection of feedback in a more engaging way, we’re introducing a rating question type. This new question type enables you to customize r...

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7 Oct 2024

New and improved widgets for Google Chat app cards

What’s changingGoogle Chat app developers have the ability to add widgets and UI elements to make their app cards customizable and encourage users to interact with their apps in a variety of ways. Today, we’re excited to announce new and improved ...

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7 Oct 2024

New document tabs in Google Docs provide a better way to organize your documents

What’s changingWe’re excited to introduce document tabs in Google Docs, a new feature to help you organize longer documents, centralize information, and make collaboration easier. You can now use tabs to draft and build content in a way that makes...

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7 Oct 2024

Why we’re appealing the Epic Games verdict

Google will appeal the U.S. Epic Games verdict, and ask the courts to pause remedies to maintain a safe developer and user experience.

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7 Oct 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – October 4, 2024

4 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

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4 Oct 2024

An internet security expert shares 3 tips for building a secure website

For Cybersecurity Awareness Month, Warren Kumari, Google’s Director of Internet Standards, shares 3 easy steps to build a secure website.

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4 Oct 2024

Our ongoing work to build and deploy responsible AI

At Google’s Responsible AI Summit in Paris, our VP of Trust & Safety Laurie Richardson spoke about our ongoing work to build responsible AI.

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4 Oct 2024

Gmail Q&A now available on iOS devices

What’s changingLast month, we introduced a new way of searching your inbox with Gemini on Android devices. Starting today, this feature is also available on iOS devices, enabling you to ask Gemini questions about your inbox. Gmail Q&A can help you ...

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3 Oct 2024

New Watermarking in Google Meet Helps Protect Your Meeting Content

What’s changing Google Workspace customers with a Gemini add-on can now watermark presented content and video feeds in Google Meet. Watermarking in Google Meet will appear as a subtle text overlay that displays the meeting code and the email addre...

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3 Oct 2024

Pixel’s Proactive Approach to Security: Addressing Vulnerabilities in Cellular Modems

Posted by Sherk Chung, Stephan Chen, Pixel team, and Roger Piqueras Jover, Ivan Lozano, Android team

Pixel phones have earned a well-deserved reputation for being security-conscious. In this blog, we'll take a peek under the hood to see how Pixel mit...

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3 Oct 2024

Beta update: Data Loss Prevention enforcement in Gmail is now instantaneous

[Update - October 9, 2024]: There has been a slight change to the rollout of this feature. To help ensure optimized performance, this will now be an extended rollout (potentially longer than 15 days for feature visibility). We anticipate that rollout w...

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3 Oct 2024

Evaluating Mitigations & Vulnerabilities in Chrome

Posted by Alex Gough, Chrome Security Team

The Chrome Security Team is constantly striving to make it safer to browse the web. We invest in mechanisms to make classes of security bugs impossible, mitigations that make it more difficult to exploit a s...

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3 Oct 2024

3 ways visual search helps you shop

Check out Google Lens’ latest shopping edit which offers product details with one snap — plus, more tips for shopping what you see.

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3 Oct 2024

How to use Google Lens to ask questions out loud about what you see

Voice input in Google Lens lets you make your voice heard as you search. Here’s how to use this new feature.

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3 Oct 2024

Ask questions in new ways with AI in Search

Introducing new ways to ask questions on Google and Lens to help you find what you need more effortlessly using AI.

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3 Oct 2024

New ways for marketers to reach customers with AI Overviews and Lens

With ads in AI Overviews and Google Lens, you can connect with the customers at the perfect moment from discovery to action.

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3 Oct 2024

New in Gemini: Gemini Live and connected Google apps in more languages

We are expanding Gemini Live and extensions to over 40 languages so you can chat with Gemini in your preferred language.

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3 Oct 2024

World Teachers’ Day 2024

This World Teachers’ Day, we’re spotlighting teacher stories around the world and showing how Google continues to support learning and education.

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3 Oct 2024

World Teachers’ Day: 4 ways Google is supporting educators

From funding organizations seeking to transform education to providing tech tools in the classroom, here’s how Google is helping teachers.

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3 Oct 2024

World Teachers’ Day: A spotlight on educator stories

To celebrate World Teachers’ Day, we spotlight teacher stories on what it’s like to be in the profession today.

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3 Oct 2024

Introducing the first Google Academic Research Award winners

Google launches GARA program to fund and support groundbreaking research in computing and technology, addressing global challenges.

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3 Oct 2024

Experience and learn about culture with the help of AI

These three new AI features from Google Arts & Culture let you explore art through a personalized lens.

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3 Oct 2024

Performance Max Campaign in Detail Placement View

The detail_placement_view can be used to query metrics aggregated by ad group and URL or YouTube video in the Google Ads API. The detail_placement_view is not intended to be used for campaigns with an advertising_channel_type of PERFORMANCE_MAX, as th...

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2 Oct 2024

Comments and action items are now available for client-side encrypted Google Sheets and Slides

What’s changingWe’re pleased to announce that the use of comments and action items are now available in client-side encrypted Google Sheets and Slides. This includes the ability to add, edit, reply, filter, or delete comments, as well as assign action ...

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2 Oct 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – September 27, 2024

3 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

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27 Sep 2024

Gemini in Gmail will now provide contextual Smart Replies

What’s changingIn 2017, we introduced Smart Reply in Gmail, a feature that utilizes machine learning to suggest three quick responses to emails based on the email's content. Thanks to this feature, users have saved time, especially when on the go, by e...

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26 Sep 2024

Eliminating Memory Safety Vulnerabilities at the Source

Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep - Android team, and Alex Rebert - Security Foundations

Memory safety vulnerabilities remain a pervasive threat to software security. At Google, we believe the path to eliminating this class of vulnerabilities at scale and ...

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25 Sep 2024

Google Sheets tables are now integrated with conditional notifications

What’s changing Earlier this year, we introduced tables in Google Sheets, a feature that accelerates spreadsheet building by formatting and organizing your data into a polished design with column types, filters, color coding, dropdown menus and mo...

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25 Sep 2024

Gmail allows more senders to protect their brand using BIMI Common Mark Certificates

What’s changingSince 2021, Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) has been critical in building trust between email senders and email recipients. To qualify for BIMI, senders must adopt best practices and have their domains and brand logos ...

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24 Sep 2024

Preview and test upcoming features on Google Meet hardware devices

What’s changing Using the new “Feature preview” setting, specific Google Meet hardware devices can be configured to test upcoming features prior to general availability. This is especially beneficial for testing purposes, gathering user feedback, ...

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24 Sep 2024

Customize your Google Docs with polished cover images

What’s changing We’re making it easy for you to personalize and differentiate documents with full-bleed cover images that extend from one edge of your document to the other. Whether you’re customizing a document for a customer with industry t...

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24 Sep 2024

Google & Arm – Raising The Bar on GPU Security

Posted by Xuan Xing, Eugene Rodionov, Jon Bottarini, Adam Bacchus - Android Red Team;
Amit Chaudhary, Lyndon Fawcett, Joseph Artgole - Arm Product Security Team

Who cares about GPUs?

You, me, and the entire ecosystem! GPUs (graphics processin...

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24 Sep 2024

Introducing security advisor, a new set of tools and insights to help small businesses protect their organization against cyber attacks

What’s changingThe cyber threat landscape is evolving and there's been an increase in the sophistication and volume of malicious threats. Small businesses frequently lack the time, resources, and expertise that larger organizations have to implement ro...

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24 Sep 2024

Kickstart ideas, brainstorm activities, and differentiate content with the help of Gemini in Google Classroom

What’s changingEarlier this year, we introduced the Gemini Education and Gemini Education Premium add-ons to give education customers new and powerful ways of working, teaching and learning with Gemini for Google Workspace. We also piloted Gemini in ...

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23 Sep 2024

Upcoming changes to search and display campaign reporting in the Google Ads API

Starting on October 16, 2024, we will start rolling out changes to search and display reporting. As a result of this change, Google Ads Query Language (GAQL) queries for campaigns with an advertising_channel_type of SEARCH or DISPLAY will return a va...

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23 Sep 2024

New updates to help you do more with Google TV

New home controls, AI-generated screensavers and easier ways to find and watch content are coming to all Google TV devices

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23 Sep 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – September 20, 2024

3 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

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20 Sep 2024

Additional iOS data exfiltration enhancement: account level data sharing between Google Workspace apps and non-Google Workspace apps on or off

What’s changing Admins can now enable content sharing on personal Workspace accounts while preventing data sharing from corporate Workspace accounts on iOS devices.
Additionally, admins can now prevent data sharing from unknown sources (typically...

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19 Sep 2024

Create birthdays in Google Calendar

What’s changing Currently, Google Calendar automatically pulls in birthday information from Google Contacts. However, it is not currently possible to create birthday events directly in Calendar. To ensure a birthday is never missed, we’re int...

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19 Sep 2024

Admin features for space management via the Chat API are now generally available

What’s changingEarlier this year, we introduced a series of space management capabilities for Workspace admins in the Google Chat API via the Google Workspace Developer Preview Program. These API features are now generally available for all Google Work...

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19 Sep 2024

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19 Sep 2024

New Search experiences in South Africa: Badges and refinement chips

We're sharing more information about our new search experiences in South Africa, and how South
African platforms can express interest and participate.

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16 Sep 2024

TensorFlow Lite is now LiteRT

TensorFlow Lite, now named LiteRT, is still the same high-performance runtime for on-device AI, but with an expanded vision to support models authored in PyTorch, JAX, and Keras.

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15 Sep 2024

Gemma explained: RecurrentGemma architecture

RecurrentGemma architecture showcases a hybrid model that mixes gated linear recurrences with local sliding window attention; a highly valuable feature when you're concerned about exhausting your LLM's context window.

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15 Sep 2024

Mastering Controlled Generation with Gemini 1.5: Schema Adherence for Developers

Controlled Generation for Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash improves the handoff from data science teams to developers, enhancing the integration of AI output and ensuring AI-generated responses adhere to a defined schema.

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15 Sep 2024

Gemma explained: PaliGemma architecture

PaliGemma, a lightweight open vision-language model (VLM), is able to take both image and text inputs and produce a text response, adding an additional vision model to the BaseGemma model.

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15 Sep 2024

8 formas de explorar, aprender y honrar la herencia latina con Google

Un vistazo a las múltiples formas en que los productos y servicios de Google se presentan en este mes de la Herencia Hispana.

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13 Sep 2024

Explore, learn about and honor Latino heritage with Google

How we’re honoring Hispanic Heritage Month.

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13 Sep 2024

A new path for Kyber on the web

Posted by David Adrian, David Benjamin, Bob Beck & Devon O'Brien, Chrome Team

We previously posted about experimenting with a hybrid post-quantum key exchange, and enabling it for 100% of Chrome Desktop clients. The hybrid key exchange used both the ...

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13 Sep 2024

New Peloton content is now available for Fitbit Premium subscribers

Peloton classes are now available to Fitbit Premium members in the U.S., UK, Canada, and Australia.

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13 Sep 2024

Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – September 13, 2024

3 New updatesUnless otherwise indicated, the features below are available to all Google Workspace customers, and are fully launched or in the process of rolling out. Rollouts should take no more than 15 business days to complete if launching to both&nb...

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13 Sep 2024