Google LLC is an American multinational corporation and technology company focusing on online advertising, search engine technology, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, consumer electronics, and artificial intelligence (AI). It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" by the BBC and is one of the world's most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the field of AI. Alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft, Google's parent company, Alphabet Inc. is one of the five Big Tech companies. Wikipedia
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- Apr 10: Google tells us that it’s fixed an issue that led to hundreds of thousands of automated downloads of our podcast. Our analytics shows that it hasn’t.
- Apr 8: Our feature story yesterday about tens of thousands of phantom downloads from Google News audio briefings has prompted another media company to get in touch with us saying they’ve seen “the exact same issue for several months now”.
- Apr 7: Google appears to be driving hundreds of thousands of podcast downloads every week, that we don’t think are being listened-to. The Google Audio News product on mobile phones and smart speakers is driving significant extra traffic - and, we can reveal today, we’re not the only company who has noticed.
- Apr 3: Google has announced a new feature for NotebookLM, which adds sources of information from across the web.
- Apr 1: In Jul 2023, podcast host Podbean was running deceptive Google ads that looked as if they were the websites of their competitors. Sadly, Podbean is displaying a poor grasp of ethical behaviour again: with ads seen yesterday that are passing off as links to RedCircle, Transistor and Captivate. These ads are against Google ad policy and may be against US law. We have again contacted Podbean; and again, they haven’t responded.
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