1,100% increase in searches for “What jobs will be replaced by robots?”
Internet searches are showing a growing fear among people that fear robots will negatively transform the workplace.
Goggle planning censored search engine in China?
Google is reportedly working on a censored version of its search engine in a bid to get round its ban in China.
Voice search trends: Marketing gap between awareness and action
Digital marketers are aware voice search will impact the way they market products and services, but almost a third (29%) aren’t actively doing anything to address the changing landscape, according to new research.
Google gets surprise profit boost despite $5bn monopoly fine
Google’s parent company Alphabet has beaten earnings expectations, getting $32.7bn in revenue in the three months to the end of June, after the firm reported stronger ad sales than expected.
Google takes AI-powered job search service to UK
Google has launched a job searching service in the UK, following its rollout in the US, offering users local results if they’re looking for a new role.
Ecommerce search trends: 51% start their online shopping journey on Amazon
Consumers tend to purchase where they search with 51% of consumers starting their online shopping journey on Amazon, as the online retailer dominates over Google, according to new research.
Google gives advertisers new AI-powered ad tools
Google has launched a suite of ad-buying tools that will let machines instead of humans fine-tune ads and determine where they should run.
Online travel trends: Amsterdam top search destination
Amsterdam tops the list when Brits are looking to book flights and hotels online, according to new research.
Google rebrands AdWords and DoubleClick under new ‘Google Ads’ platform
Google’s ad system is getting a major overhaul this week that will see its flagship AdWords and DoubleClick advertising products renamed under a new streamlined platform.
Innovation Lions Winner: Google Assistant bridges digital divide in Colombia with ‘My Line’
MyLine, a project by MullenLowe SSP3 in Bogota that gave people in remote areas access to online services using a landline, has won the Innovation Lions Grand Prix at Cannes.
Search trends: How Page 1 of Google has changed for travel brands
In both mobile and desktop searches for travel, Google now shows on average 8.8 organic blue links on page one (down from the traditional ten), according to new travel sector-specific research.
Integrating search and social ‘biggest challenge for digital advertisers’ for 2018
Integrating search and social channels has emerged as the biggest challenge for advertisers globally in 2018.
Voice technology: Business use to triple over next year
The vast majority (85%) of businesses will use voice technology – such as Amazon’s Alexa or Microsoft’s Cortana voice-activated assistants – to communicate with customers within the next year according to research.
Carrefour and Google team up for voice shopping in France
Carrefour and Google have partnered for three digital shopping initiatives, including voice search, cloud computing and AI.
Booking.com leads the big spenders for PPC in the travel sector
Booking.com was the biggest spending travel website for search advertising in Q1 this year, while TripAdvisor took the top spot for organic search, according to new research.
Mary Meeker’s Internet trends: the 2018 ‘privacy paradox’
There’s a “privacy paradox” surrounding data collection for profit, where data needs to be used to enrich people’s experiences without betraying their trust, according to the annual report from digital guru Mary Meeker.
UK’s most Googled Royal Wedding questions
With the Royal Wedding just days away, Hitwise, the UK’s leading online behavioural insights provider, has investigated the most popular questions and searches the UK has ahead of the royal weekend.
10 big trends from Google I/O: AI phone calls and Android IoT platform
Google’s annual developer conference this year showed how the internet giant sees AI as the future, from Gmail that writes itself to an Assistant that makes appointment – based phone calls for you. We look at ten of the biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018.
Shutterstock uses AI to help people avoid image copyright issues
Shutterstock is making it easier for people to avoid using copyrighted images on Google Image Search with a new AI powered Chrome extension.
Google’s search algorithm updates of 2017 [INFOGRAPHIC]
From extra interstitials to ramped up meta descriptions, this infographic contains the major Google search algorithm updates of 2017.
