Google wants its decades old Robots Exclusion Protocol to become an internet standard
Google wants its decades old Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) to be certified as an official internet standard. To make that possible, it has made its robots.txt parser open source.
REP is a protocol that website owners can use to deny web crawlers and other clients access to a website, writes Silico... Read more
Google is working on submarine cable connecting Europe to Africa
Google is working on another private submarine cable. This cable is intended to connect Western Europe with Africa. The cable is called Equiano and must run between Portuguese Lisbon and Cape Town in South Africa.
Google also plans to build several branches of the cable, expanding the company's conn... Read more
Google for Small Business portal helps small businesses with digital marketing
Google has launched the Google for Small Business portal. The new website recommends products that are most suitable for SMEs.
According to Kim Spalding, global product director at Google, small business owners struggle with time. As a result, they do not have time to become experts in the field of ... Read more
Google Maps can predict how busy the bus or train is
Google Maps will predict how busy public transport is when a user wants to travel with it. Google uses a new prediction technique that it has been perfecting for six months, writes TechCrunch.
Google began in October asking Maps users to rate their journey as they traveled in rush hour, between 6am ... Read more
Security company Chronicle goes together with Google Cloud
Alphabet has announced its enterprise security company Chronicle later this year to merge with Google Cloud, reports CNBC. The security company was founded in January 2018 and comes from X, Alphabet's experimental project lab.
Chronicle launched its first product in March: Backstory. Backstory is a... Read more
Google Cloud makes Deep Learning Containers available as beta
The Google Cloud Platform has made Deep Learning Containers available as a beta. Deep Learning Containers are environments optimized for the deployment and testing of applications and services that use machine learning. The Deep Learning Containers work in the cloud and on premise.
In the future, t... Read more
Google makes auto-delete location and activity data available
From now on, Google lets you set a time limit, after which the location and activity data that the company keeps about you are automatically deleted.
The feature was already announced at the beginning of May, but is only now being gradually rolled out to users on both Android and iOS.
Users can set ... Read more
Google makes security G Suite stronger with new tools for Gmail
Google has provided G Suite with new security tools for Gmail. The tools are designed for use by IT administrators. These include a new sandbox feature, better protection against phishing and malware, and new controls to prevent employees from forwarding, copying, downloading or printing messages.
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Google Drive test offline save PDF and Office files
A new beta version of Google's G Suite allows users to store PDFs, Office documents and other files that are not from Google's own services offline in Drive. Offline saving was already possible with Docs, Sheets and Slides.
You can save offline by enabling the option 'Available offline', which can ... Read more
Google Cloud integrates Kaggle with BigQuery
Google has announced that it will integrate its BigQuery cloud data warehouse and analytics service with Kaggle. Kaggle is an online community for data scientists and other interested parties in machine learning to analyze and share their work.
By combining BigQuery with Kaggle - which Google acqui... Read more