In the glorious future, every website will be chock-full of semantic metadata. Restaurants won’t have a 50MB PDF explaining the chef’s vision for organic cuisine – instead, they’ll have little scraps of data on the HTML page like: “hasMenuItem”:{ “@type”:”MenuItem”, … Read more
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Fiber optic networks are a foundation of the modern internet. In fact, subsea cables carry 99% of international network traffic, and yet we are barely aware that they exist. What you might not know is that the first subsea cable … Read more
Starting this month—21 years after Microsoft turned off Clippy because people hated it so much—Google is rolling out a new feature called “assistive writing” that butts into your prose to make style and tone notes on word choice, concision, and … Read more
Google is using the new Business Profile to solicit small business opposition to pending antitrust legislation. Using search features to sway small business sentiment reflects a new, more aggressive Google policy towards regulation. Unfortunately, the authorities Google is using to … Read more
Dozens of employees have left Google’s payments team in recent months. That includes a handful of executives who departed just this month. Some employees say they’re frustrated with slow progress on the payments app. Google’s payments division has seen an … Read more
Chrome’s bookmark manager and Google docs have questionably bad UI and design. They both lack such basic organizational features, such as tags, one has to wonder if they are purposefully bad at helping you stay organized. Chrome made an attempt … Read more
Over the past 15 years, Google has introduced more than a dozen messaging services spanning text, voice, and video calling. This week, the company’s efforts culminated in the general availability of Google Chat, a combination of Slack / Discord-style rooms … Read more
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Only Google Is Really Allowed To Crawl The Web Bandwidth costs money, so there’s a limit to how much and how often website operators will let their websites be crawled. This limit means that website operators are picky about who … Read more