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Re: YouTube situation, we are coordinating with authorities and will provide official information here from Google and YouTube as it becomes available.
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Statement from Verily: "We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing. Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.
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“We appreciate the support of government officials and industry partners and thank the Google engineers who have volunteered to be part of this effort."
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“We are fully aligned and continue to work with the US Government to contain the spread of COVID-19, inform citizens, and protect the health of our communities. (1/6)
Statement from Verily: "We are developing a tool to help triage individuals for Covid-19 testing. Verily is in the early stages of development, and planning to roll testing out in the Bay Area, with the hope of expanding more broadly over time.
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“Google is partnering with the US Government in developing a nationwide website that includes information about COVID-19 symptoms, risk and testing information. (2/6)
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“This is in addition to other measures we are taking, including: a Google “home page promotion” to promote greater awareness of simple measures citizens can take to prevent the spread of the disease; (3/6)
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“Rolling out free access to our advanced Hangouts Meet video-conferencing capabilities to all G Suite and G Suite for Education customers globally until 7/01/20; advancing health research and science; and financially supporting global relief efforts.” - Google Spokesperson (6/6)
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“Work being done by our sister company Verily to launch a pilot website that will enable individuals to do a risk assessment and be scheduled for testing at sites in the Bay Area; (4/6)
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“Promoting authoritative information through Google Search and YouTube; taking measures to protect users from misinformation, including phishing, conspiracy theories, malware and misinformation; (5/6)
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We advised all other employees in the Bay Area, and people with meetings scheduled, to stay away from the area, and that there is no need to take any action. We have provided employees a helpline.
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Over the past few days, some people on X have posted claims that Search is “censoring” or “banning” particular terms. That’s not happening, and we want to set the record straight.
The posts relate to our Autocomplete feature, which predicts queries to save you time. Autocomplete
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We continue to actively coordinate with local authorities and hospitals. Our Security team has been working closely with authorities to evacuate the buildings and ensure the safety of employees in the area.
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We have advised those who are currently at the SBO office to continue to shelter in place until further notice.
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We're already working to address recent issues with Gemini's image generation feature. While we do this, we're going to pause the image generation of people and will re-release an improved version soon.
We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Here's our statement.
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Our policies do not allow ads to run against dangerous or derogatory content, which includes comments on sites, and we offer guidance and best practices to publishers on how to comply.
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Today we launched an SOS Alert w/
@WHO
, to make resources about
#coronavirus
easily accessible. When people search for related info on
@Google
, they’ll find the alert atop results page w/ direct access to safety tips, info, resources & Twitter updates from WHO.
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As the comment section has now been removed, we consider this matter resolved and no action will be taken.
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Our CEO sent the following email to Google employees earlier today.
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We worked with them to address issues on their site related to the comments section.
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We're aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies in some historical image generation depictions. Here's our statement.
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(5/5) Overall, these types of prediction and labeling systems are algorithmic. While our systems work very well most of the time, you can find predictions that may be unexpected or imperfect, and bugs will occur. Many platforms, including the one we’re posting on now, will show
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Here’s our statement on today’s decision in the DOJ case:
“This decision recognizes that Google offers the best search engine, but concludes that we shouldn’t be allowed to make it easily available. We appreciate the Court’s finding that Google is ‘the industry’s highest quality
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@GOPLeader
@Google
We regret that vandalism on Wikipedia briefly appeared on our search results. This was not the the result of a manual change by Google. We have systems in place that catch vandalism before it impacts search results, but occasionally errors get through, and that happened here.
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(2/5) First, Autocomplete wasn’t providing predictions for queries about the assassination attempt against former President Trump. That’s because it has built-in protections related to political violence — and those systems were out of date.
After the horrific events in Butler,
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(4/5) Some people also posted that searches for “Donald Trump” returned news stories related to “Kamala Harris.” These labels are automatically generated based on related news topics, and they change over time. They span the political spectrum as well: For example, a search for
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(3/5) Second, people posted about how Autocomplete wasn’t showing relevant predictions for “President Donald.” This particular issue was a bug that spanned the political spectrum, also affecting queries for several past presidents, such as former President Obama, as you can see
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@senorrinhatch
@Google
You certainly are alive and sporting a great sense of humor. We apologize for the error. We'll have it fixed shortly.
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Our generative AI experiment in Search has just landed in over 120 new countries and territories in four additional languages. Along with new upgrades, it's more helpful and interactive than ever. Read more ↓
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@TheHackersNews
Mining cryptocurrency is against Google ads policy. We actively enforce this policy and block vendors who are caught trying to do this.
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We have restored access to the Gmail accounts for the Baltimore city officials. Our automated security systems disabled the accounts due to the bulk creation of multiple consumer Gmail accounts from the same network.
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@CatchUpFeed
There was no manual action taken. Our systems have protections against Autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, which were working as intended prior to this horrific event. We’re working on improvements to ensure our systems are more up to date. Of course,
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@keithboykin
@Google
This contribution was made on Nov. 2 before Sen. Hyde-Smith's remarks became public on Nov. 11. While we support candidates who promote pro-growth policies for business and technology, we don't condone these remarks & would not have made such a contribution had we known.
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Check out our statement on the
@nytimes
story about potential AI-enabled tools for news publishers:
In partnership with news publishers, especially smaller publishers, we’re in the earliest stages of exploring ideas to potentially provide AI-enabled tools to help journalists
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.
@Googleorg
will match employee contributions to
@TXCivilRights
,
@FlorenceProject
,
@CCharitiesRGV
and
@supportKIND
to help separated families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Lyrics in info boxes on Google Search are licensed, we don't generate them from other sites on the web. We're investigating this issue and if our data licensing partners are not upholding good practices, we will end our agreements.
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@WallStreetSilv
Some context here: These labels are automatically generated based on common topics across many news articles, and they change over time. A search today for Kamala Harris showed Top Stories labeled with “Donald Trump,” because many articles cover the two of them together. You can
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@WHO
@Google
To help support relief efforts,
@Googleorg
issued a $250,000 direct grant to the Chinese Red Cross. Additionally we launched an internal campaign inviting Googlers to donate. So far, and Googlers have raised over $800K USD (3.5M rmb).
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On today's Q1 2024 earnings call,
@sundarpichai
shared how Google is approaching the AI opportunity ahead. Here's what he said ↓
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Building on the
@GoogleNewsinit
and our $300M commitment to support journalism, we are giving
@GoogleNews
a complete refresh with quality sources in a way that also works for publishers.
#io18
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The new Android platform helps give users time back so you can find more balance in your life.
@YouTube
will soon include a “Take a Break” reminder too.
#io18
#DigitalWellbeing
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@MarketWatch
Hi, this is inaccurate. We’ve got tape and staplers — companywide. And we have paperclips, too. Thanks for coming to our TED talk.
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"Designing products that work for you" - A Googler Explains Exactly How the Pixel 4 Captures the Night Sky by
@aarongell
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@Pinboard
Thank you for flagging. This was a mistake and should not have happened. Due to a human error, a handful of Shopping results for bump stock appeared. We immediately removed those results as they violate our policy.
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@DRUDGE_REPORT
We apologize to Senator Wade that this image appeared in the Knowledge Panel in Search. Images that appear in the Knowledge Panel are either selected by verified users or are automatically sourced from sites across the web.
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Thirty minutes until we begin. Amazing crowd at
#io18
on a beautiful day. Watch the live stream at
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Meet Google engineer Emily Hanley.
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@GOPLeader
@Google
This would have been fixed systematically once we processed the removal from Wikipedia, but when we noticed the vandalism we worked quickly to accelerate the removal of the erroneous information.
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"These sweeping changes will broadly effect how videos are ranked on YouTube, and they are just the latest extension of the Google News Initiative that kicked off in March in an effort to support journalism and combat fake news."
YouTube announces sweeping changes to the way it handles breaking news
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@TransGriot
The blog was taken down in error earlier today. It has been fully restored and we apologize for any inconvenience to you or your readers.
@morganmpage
@MaryEmilyOHara
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Everyone deserves to communicate with each other in ways that are modern and secure, no matter what phone they have. That’s why we have worked closely with the mobile industry to accelerate the adoption of RCS, and we’re happy to see Apple take their first step today by coming on
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Today, we helped announce a pilot with
@delaware_dhss
and
@thepartnership
to bring better online resources to families with a loved one struggling with opioid addiction. via
@delawareonline
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The new partnership with Apple, Google, Amazon and the Zigbee Alliance will ensure that "people can buy products knowing that they’ll work with the systems they have at home, and that they’re secure."
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AI can help predict medical events 24-48 hours earlier, sorting through over 100,000 data-points per patient to make a quantitative prediction on whether or not they’re likely to be readmitted to the hospital.
#io18
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Google Earth adds historical imagery and Street View expands to nearly 80 places in the latest update.
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We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision. Developers should be able to create applications across platforms and not be locked into one company's software.
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"Dozens of Fortune 500 companies, from tech giants like Apple and Google to Walmart and General Motors, are voluntarily investing billions of dollars in new wind and solar projects to power their operations or offset their conventional energy use."
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"For Everyone" is a core philosophy for
@Google
; it’s built into our mission to create products that are universally accessible and useful, and we take the same approach to privacy.
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We’re updating the Search and Shopping ads experiences in AI Overviews and Google Lens, creating new opportunities for people and businesses to discover and connect ↓
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Google is proud to help support businesses, website publishers, and nonprofits nationwide. $283 billion of economic activity in 2017 in all 50 states.
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Today, as part of our Gemini at Work global event,
@GoogleCloud
is showcasing nearly 50 new customer stories from organizations around the world to highlight just how impactful generative AI can be when you put it to work at scale.
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"We tried to trip up Google Duplex, the bot that sounds human, and failed"
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Over the past two weeks we have been moved by the stories we’ve heard from Googlers. It’s clear that to live up to the high bar we set for ourselves, we need to take action to better support our employees and empower them to do their best work.
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@business
These claims about the operation and purpose of this extension are categorically false. This is a pop-up reminder that asks people to be mindful before auto-adding a meeting to the calendars of large numbers of employees.
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"We don't want students to just be consumers of technology, we want them to be creators of technology."
Google delivers computer science presentation at DuBois Area Middle School.
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Meet Google product manager Michelle Luo.
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#Io18
is underway!
@Sundarpichai
onstage discussing how Google intends to bring the benefits of AI to everyone.
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Virginia today launched an app using Exposure Notifications System (ENS) from Apple and Google:
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We're proud to introduce the
#Cybersecurity
Clinics Fund by
@Googleorg
, to help address the growing need for cybersecurity professionals by providing students with the skills and training they need to protect our communities from cyberattacks.
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Farmers, with the help of
#AI
, can now wave their phones in front of a cassava leaf and if a plant has a disease, the app can identify it and give options on the best ways to manage it.
Machine learning takes root: how
@TensorFlow
is helping farmers grow better cassava, a crop that provides food for over half a billion people daily →
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Details of our technical findings here:
NEW: Google finds forensic evidence of attack linked to Iran state media
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On the video from O’Keefe Media Group: The claims here are completely false — they were made by a junior sales rep, secretly filmed while on a date, who has never worked on these topics. As we’ve shared before, we do not manipulate our products or make decisions in favor of any
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@slpng_giants
@Google
@YouTube
Hi
@slpng_giants
, this is actually part of our efforts to combat extremism on YouTube through the Jigsaw Redirect Method. You can read more here:
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Going forward, we will provide more transparency into how concerns are raised and how we handle them. We will provide better care and support to people who raise concerns. And we will double down on our commitment to be a representative, equitable, and respectful workplace.
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Welcome
@Kent_Walker
. Teaching online skills through
#GrowWithGoogle
in
#Cleveland
is a fitting way join Twitter.
I spent last Friday at
@TriCedu
for
#GrowWithGoogle
, where 45 Googlers brought coaching and workshops to 500 Clevelanders. We were also proud to provide a grant that will continue the work with new facility for workforce training.
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@DRUDGE_REPORT
In this instance, the image was hosted on a student news blog. Upon being alerted to this issue, we immediately removed it from the Knowledge Panel.
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A good reminder for users at elevated risk of attack to check out Google's Advanced Protection Program.
The Cybersecurity 202: Google steps up security efforts as most campaigns use its email services
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$GOOGL Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2017 results are in →
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@RealSaavedra
This story seems purposefully misleading. Google has never manipulated Google Search results to fit a particular political ideology. The story finds zero evidence to the contrary.
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@MarioNawfal
That’s right — we have protections in place for topics like political violence, which typically work well. But we're working on improvements to make our predictions more up to date. Regardless of what Autocomplete shows, people can always search for whatever they want to, and we
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Google aims to put military veterans back to work with new tools
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We're joining
@AnthropicAI
,
@Microsoft
, and
@OpenAI
to introduce the Frontier Model Forum, a new group promoting the responsible development of advanced AI models.
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Google introduces new tools to help journalists fight fake news
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Google will match up to $1 million in donations to provide critical relief to those in need.
#HurricaneFlorence
From SOS Alerts to $2.5 million in donations from
@googleorg
, our employees and you, here's how we're supporting those affected by Hurricane Florence →
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