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Google launches AI-powered advertiser features in push for automation

Google and other firms have developed novel chatbots that respond to users in open-ended conversations. AI is being deployed to serve advertisers, who contribute to firm's revenue.

Auction for your eyeballs: Google is sharing our personal data at a staggering scale

In the quarter ending in March, 2022, Google made about $54 billion from advertising. The consequences? Surveillance, and all your private information on sale in a digital market.

Modi should follow Morrison, demand Facebook and Google share revenues with news publishers

Social media companies are taking away most digital advertising revenues by leeching on content created by news organisations. The model is broken.

Why Google is going to regret its threat to disable search engine in Australia

The online advertising giant's suggestion to remove its search product from Australia is further-reaching than anything it has tried before.

Google parent company Alphabet saw its ad revenue fall for first time ever after Covid hit

Ad sales, which make up the bulk of sales at the Google parent, were $29.9 billion in the second quarter, down 8.1% from the same period last year.

Google, Amazon funnel over $20 million to sites spreading coronavirus conspiracies

A Global Disinformation Index study analysed ads running between January-June on 480 English language websites identified as publishers of virus misinformation

Google follows Apple in ending third-party ‘cookies’ in ad-tracking

Apple and Mozilla browsers already block third-party cookies, but Google had argued those approaches risk cutting into vital revenue for internet publishers.

Badshah’s Paagal shows how to get the most no. of YouTube views in 24 hrs using Google ads

Badshah's new track Paagal may have set the record with 75 million views in a day but there are weaknesses in Google's advertising setup that could have made that possible.

On Camera

Why legal provisions are necessary to curb the power of trade unions: MH Mody

The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

Embraer moves full throttle in pursuit of IAF contract, ties up with Hindalco after Adani

IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.