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Wie viel Macht haben Techkonzerne heute über unseren Alltag? Plattformen wie #Google, #Meta oder #Amazon steuern nicht nur Informationsflüsse, sondern prägen auch Wahrnehmung, Verhalten und Entscheidungen.
Das Ge…

#Google can’t build its West Memphis facility fast enough, so now they’re gonna pay #Elon a billion dollars a month to rent time on #MechaHitler.
RIP, Google! 🪦
Hello,

Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month in compute deal
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month over three years to use the company’s computing power, according to an agreement filed with the Securities and Exchange C…

Want to check the google trends for a topic? Use {gtrendsR} directly from within your favorite language: #googletrends

"By introducing an AI image generator as a Google Earth feature, Google risked undermining public trust in Google Earth as a reliable reference for providing authentic imagery of the real world, Ess said. It could have also handed an additional excuse to government officials or anyone who wants to deny genuine satellite photos by claiming they were modified or generated entirely by AI tools."
#GoogleEarth

Trust Google Maps? Not anymore. Restaurant complained, Google politely notified me and made my review invisible. 3 stars with photo evidence, gone on request. What you see on Google Maps is what businesses allow you to see. Nothing more.
#GoogleMaps

How are the tech corps justifying the AI bubble? Why, by just INVENTING SUBSCRIBERS!
It's easy when you lie!
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2026/06/18/how-google-lies/

How Google Lies
I have never, ever subscribed to “Google AI Plus.” I would never subscribe to any Google AI bullshit. But, look, apparently I’m now a happy subscriber to an AI service becauseR…

First impressions of #LineageOS on a #Google #Android phone looks solid. Installation was relatively simple, wasn't bothered to log into some third party service on set up, and p…

De-Google Android with LineageOS
Google services are powerful, but they come with some major baggage; telemetry, proprietary systems, and vendor lock-in. This install guide is your roadmap...

Niederlage vor EuGH: Google muss Rekordstrafe zahlen
#Google

Good column about Google,
#google

RE: #google

"Google reports 18% rise in total emissions amidst AI expansion"
#Google #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Google reports 18% rise in total emissions amidst AI expansion
Google has published its annual environmental report, unveiling that its absolute emissions across all scopes rose by 18% last year as it continued to expand the deployment of energy-intensive artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

Scott Galloway bei der OMR: OpenAI könnte das „Netscape unserer Ära" werden — überholt von Anthropic, Google Gemini und günstigen Modellen aus China. Gleichzeitig warnt er vor einer Rechenzentren-Blase. Sein Big Tech Stock Pick 2026? Nicht Google — sondern Amazon. Pest oder ... Inken Schönauer analysiert in der FAZ (€)
#KI

Any thoughts from the #fediverse on Ellipsus (#Google

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Write, edit, and collaborate on any device. Ellipsus is a principled alternative to Google Docs—built for writers, by writers. Sign up for free.

It seems #Google #scholar has now really become #slopware. Every week I get weirder and weirder edit suggestions, this time to revert several published papers to their preprint versions..
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With that transition, Chrome-based browser users are less protected against malicious websites:
#Google #Chrome is killing all #uBlock Origin bypasses, Microsoft

«Digitale Briefe der Post liegen auf Google-Servern:
#Digital'e Sendungen der #Schweiz'erischen #Post werden auf Servern von #Google

Digitale Briefe der Post liegen auf Google-Servern
Digitale Sendungen der Schweizerischen Post werden auf Servern von Google gespeichert. Das wirft Fragen in Bezug auf die digitale Souveränität des Unternehmens auf.

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New ad formats built with Gemini coming to Google Search - #Google
https://blog.google/products/ads-commerce/google-marketing-live-search-ads/

"Google Search as you know it is over"
#google

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

I tried going to #Google #GoogleIO

baaahh why is literally EVERY app nowadays on #Google Play flagged with "contains ads". I want a filter for "non ad"-apps!!

Who would expect anything else?
#Enshittification #Google #AI

Google wusste 2016 schon, was ich tue – heute wollen KI-Agenten gleich Zugriff auf meine Dokumente. Dateianhänge nerven zehn Jahre später noch immer, und McKinseys Prognosen von damals wirken naiv. Mein #TenYearsAfter-Rückblick. #Google

#TenYearsAfter #2016: Von Googles Datenhunger zu KI-Agenten mit Vollzugriff
Google wusste 2016 schon, was ich über mich preisgebe. Zehn Jahre später saugen KI-Modelle noch mehr Daten – und KI-Agenten wollen jetzt gleich direkten Zugriff auf unsere Dokumente. Ein Blick zurü…

Nachdem #Google die Suche ganz von allein abgeschafft hat, so dass nur noch Contentklau als Geschäft übrigbleibt, sollte die EU dringend steuern und vor allem besteuern.
Eine weitere Sache ist, dass #Google das Betriebssystem Android so verändern will, dass Apps ohne Signaturen des eigenen Appstore nicht…

AI and productivity – Michael Roberts Blog
#ai

AI and productivity
Alphabet (Google) announced its earnings results yesterday.  At first sight, the results were spectacular: revenue was up 24%, with revenue from its ‘cloud’ business up 82%.  Earnings per share wer…

RE: #google

I'm leaving #Google: https://www.mayrhofer.eu.org/post/leaving-google/
While I believe that I have been able to do some good with my continuing (part-time) engagement in the And…

KI-Test: So einfach lassen sich Nachrichten mit #ChatGPT und Co. fälschen
Mit KI-Chatbots von #Google, #OpenAI und #Microsoft

KI-Test: So einfach lassen sich Nachrichten mit ChatGPT und Co. fälschen
Mit den KIs von OpenAI, Google und Microsoft lassen sich gefälschte Beiträge von existierenden Medien erstellen. Sicherheitslücken weist vor allem ChatGPT auf.

Fuck you #Google, I'm not doing two #chromium security updates per week. You people are high. It typically takes half a day for chromium build because these people are incapable of using system libraries and want to bundle an entire OS into a browser.

RE: #Google 😂 #Disregard

#Google zalicza właśnie jakąś spektakularną awarię. Nic nie działa, a dopiero wydali nowy model #Gemini 3.6.

TIL two things:
1/ share.google is banned by Reddit
2/ this ban appears to be soft.
Whilst the pictured comment is neither approved nor removed, the link to the banned domain is visible to the public.
#AI #Reddit

Danke für die Erklärung. Der Hinweis auf #Google hat mich tatsächlich bei der @… am meisten getriggert. Google meide ich aktiv, daher war es mir insgesamt egal. Bei #Apple

#Enshitification #Google
I just got an email saying they're removing Google Assistant from mobile devices on Sept 4th and forcing their AI on to devices.
Didn't they kill Assistant last year?
I'm confused

Heute ist Dienstag früher als sonst (und damit #DNIPBriefing-Tag).
1️⃣ Google hat letzte Woche an der jährlichen Entwickler-Konferenz #Google I/O angekündigt, bei der klassischen Google-Suche verstärkt auf #KI

How are the #SEO guys holding up after the new #Google Search changes?

Do people know that #Gmail "reactions" don't really work when you use them to respond to non-Gmail addresses? #Google

AI will eat your soul and wash it down with a glass of your blood.
#AI #google #Meta

✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum
Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔
https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum

🗂️ Use #GoogleSheets as a #Laravel database! laravel-google-sheets-database-driver maps spreadsheet = DB, tab = table, row 1 = columns. Full #Eloquent & Query Builder support.

#google are you well? I would like to check my passwords, maybe make sure I can do that?

Considering how many unofficial #notebooklm #mcp servers I found yesterday you would have thought #google would take the hint.
Extracting facts from a knowledge base is one of the things

So... not many people will be surprised, #Google has done it again, it has crossed a big red line this time.
They already made it so that using their "share" feature from Chrome browser in Android would introduce their own tracking link, betraying unsuspecting users. That in itself was infuriating, but at least we had an escape hatch, we could copy the web page URL and share that directly.... until now.
It is no longer possible to copy URLs from the browser's URL bar (in Android systems). They have reached an entire new level of perversity and anti-user behaviour.
At this rate, they will manage to kill the #www for good at some point, something else will have to emerge.

#Stalker #Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ8clVdaRKA&t=16s

40 Milliarden Dollar Strafe für Google – wenn die Kommission sich diesmal traut. Beim letzten Mal reichte ein Anruf aus Washington, um die Sache auf Eis zu legen. "Nicht ewig warten", heißt es jetzt aus Brüssel. Nun ja, ewig ist relativ. Laut Achim Sawall (#Golem). #DMA #Google

#Google hat Werbetreibende darüber informiert, dass sie ab dem 3. August 2026 IP-Adressen von Nutzenden aus EU, UK und der Schweiz für die Anzeigenmessung und -personalisierung verwenden wird.
Diese Daten werden schon länger gesammelt. Neu ist die gezielte Nutzung zur Identifikation von Endgeräten für Werbezwecke.
Höchste Zeit, um
- personalisierte Werbung bei euch abzustellen
-…

RE: https://ard.social/@tagesschau/116968748659961616
Bei einem Nettogewinn 2025 von Alphabet/Google mit rund 132,2 Milliarden US-Dollar, dann entsprechen 890 Millionen Euro ungefähr 0,7 % davon.

With every company announcement event, I get even more nervous because #enshittification is a strong trend these days. 🫣
It's a really good announcement when there's actually not too much news.
Upcoming anxiety: #Google actively killing the healthy ecosystem of

Offenbar haben die Politiker:innen in #Kronstorf und beim #LandOÖ (Stelzer, Achleitner, Kaineder …) sich nicht mit den Klimaauswirkungen auf das Grundwasser im schon von Trockenheit gebeutelten Land beschäftigt.
Sonst könnten Sie

Leere Wasserspeicher: Rekordhitze trocknet Europa aus
Österreich ist besonders von der Dürre betroffen. Wie die Trockenheit mit dem Klimawandel zusammenhängt und wie der Ausblick auf die kommenden Wochen aussieht

It becomes ever more important that you stop using Google.
It's been important for a long time, since they removed 'don't be evil' from their tag-line and decided that they had to be a big evil corporation instead.
They're giving up on being a search engine now too by the sounds of it.
You can use startpage or duckduckgo or something if you still want search.
There are lots of different email providers.
There is GrapheneOS and lineageos and others for your phone and tablet operating systems.
There is Peertube and Rumble and others for uploading your videos.
You don't have to remove it all at once, just make a continuing effort to move away from Google, one step at a time.
I'm almost completely degoogled now. Its taken years. It was a good move. Google only gets worse from here.
#google #enshitification #ai

Danke für die Erklärung. Der Hinweis auf #Google hat mich tatsächlich bei der @… am meisten getriggert. Google meide ich aktiv, daher war es mir insgesamt egal. Bei #Apple

Fatal: Die EU zieht eine Milliardenstrafe gegen Google zurück — und Ursula von der Leyen demonstriert damit ausgerechnet gegenüber Big Tech politische Nachgiebigkeit. Wer digitale Souveränität predigt, aber bei BigTech Marktmacht zurückrudert, macht Regulierung zur bloßen Kulisse. Mike Kuketz benennt das fatale Signal klar.
#Google

Kommentar: Von der Leyen sendet ein fatales Signal an Big Tech
Von der Leyen soll persönlich eingegriffen und eine bereits geplante Milliardenstrafe gegen Google in letzter Minute gestoppt haben. Wenn die…

✍️ New post: Ad Infinitum
Google announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years at #GoogleIO. But where are the ads…? 🤔
https://matthiasott.com/notes/ad-infinitum

Ad Infinitum · Matthias Ott
Web design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

The amount of times someone said "#google #maps works great in #Japan" and then I learn it took them on some weird route that was longer, more expensive, or required excessive walking then the optimal route.

Die #Weko schaut sich an, ob #Google durch Abschaltung des «Choice Screens» für die Schweiz ihre Suchmaschine wettbewerbswidrig priorisiert.
Ach, wäre es schön, DMA/DSA zu haben, dann wäre der Fall viel einfacher …

🔐 Security baked in: every webhook call uses signed requests so you can verify the payload is genuinely from #Google. Delivery is guaranteed with at-least-once semantics and automatic backoff on failure.
🔧 Setup is flexible: register webhooks either at the project level (static) or per-request (dynamic). All you need is an HTTPS endpoint and your

Wer jetzt noch #Google für #Suche nutzt, der hilft mit, dass das #WWW (das viele Menschen für das #Internet halten) in der For…

Eigenlijk van de ratten besnuffeld dat je de VVD en PVV als goede voorbeeld moet laten zien. 😇😇
Websites van politieke partijen geven bezoekersgegevens nog steeds vooral door aan Google - @…
#nlpol #google

"Google Book" is better than if they called the laptop "Gemini Book", I guess. #GoogleIO

"Google developers significantly misstate carbon emissions of proposed UK datacentres"
#Google #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

Totally normal #Google #Play app situation.
Changes in new version: "restoring backups."
Methinks "that looks like a harmless update".
Reality: AI, new terms of service, new "privacy" policy, make a backup ("in cloud" preferably, can't save locally), sign up for an account (you can skip that), database migration.
Of course, the app itself is not very different. Some random extra padding that makes it look like shit, new database format that's much slower, and lots of useless premium shit.
#Android #enshittification

🚨 #GeminiAPI now supports event-driven #webhooks — no more polling for job status! Get real-time HTTP POST notifications the moment your batch job completes or video finishes generating. #Google

Computers from/with:
- Apple for those who don't value their money. 💰
- Linux for those who don't value their time. ⌛
- Google for those who don't value their privacy. 🔏
- Windows for those who don't value all three. 💰⌛🔏
Nailed it. 💯
#technology #computers #GoogleBook #review

I do not want to "move from an operating system to an intelligence system" thanks Google.
I still want my computer to operate, not to intelligent.
I do not want a popup every time I wriggle my mouse to see where the cursor is.
Also "google books" is already a thing you maniacs. Google, the search engine company, has made a product which is unserchable because of a name clash with another thing from the same company already called that.
/slow-clap.
This is intelligence apparently. We're going to need a new word for actually clever things given all this crap branded intelligent nowadays.
#googleBook #laptop

RE: #google #gemini

Oh now this is the best tech news I have heard for awhile…. Is a Mega-Enron situation about to happen to a bunch of the Magnificient Seven?
“Like Enron, they’re using special purpose vehicles, or off-balance sheet arrangements such as legally distinct subsidiaries, as a way to make their financial reporting look healthier than it actually is — often a glaring sign that something is deeply amiss behind the scenes.”
Also… is this why Apple effectively outsourced its AI, rather than build its own. If so, it could be the smartest tech hedge of the century.
#apple #microsoft #meta #google #alphabet #amazon #oracle #AI #hedge #enron #debt