Ethereum's “low-risk DeFi” applications like payments and savings could drive the chain's revenue in a similar way that search and ads sustain Google's business
Vitalik Buterin Says Focus On Low-Risk DeFi Than Memecoins Zack Abrams / The Block : Low-risk DeFi, not memecoins, can best sustain Ethereum's economy, co-founder Vitalik Buterin says Evans Karanja / ...
OpenAI removes a ChatGPT feature that let users make their conversations discoverable by Google and other search engines, calling it a “short-lived experiment”
But ChatGPT Is Changing the Game Pieter Arntz / Malwarebytes : OpenAI kills “short-lived experiment” where ChatGPT chats could be found on Google Tom Warren / The Verge : Bing made Google dance and th...
A look at U.S. et al v. Google, the federal government's first monopoly trial of the modern internet era, set to last 10 weeks; top execs are likely to testify
The 10-week trial, set to begin Tuesday, amps up efforts to rein in Big Tech by targeting the core search business that turned Google into a $1.7 trillion behemoth.
Filing: Google denies intentionally destroying evidence in the US DOJ's antitrust lawsuit over its search business, responding to the US' bid for sanctions
Mike Scarcella / Reuters :
How a slowing digital ad market, Apple's ATT changes, tech companies' internal turmoil, weak content moderation, and more are contributing to a junk ad epidemic
written after Apple's new App Store ad format placed gambling ads next to gambling addiction apps — as the antecedent rebuttal to the NYT's piece this weekend that questions why, all of the sudden, ad...
Sources: OpenAI releasing ChatGPT led Google to declare a “code red”, including reassigning teams to respond to the threat ChatGPT poses to its search business
A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.
FactSet survey of Q1 ad revenue: Google is expected to rise 23% YoY to $55.1B, Meta is expected to rise 8% YoY to ~$27.5B, and Twitter to grow 25% YoY to $1.1B
Google's search business expected to stay resilient while social platforms grapple with challenges Tweets: @megancgraham , @csooran , @enriqueabeyta , @hoofnagle , @jason_kint , and @jason_kint Tweets...
Ohio's AG files lawsuit with Delaware County Court alleging that Google's search business is anticompetitive and asks court to declare Google a public utility
Jackie Borchardt / The Columbus Dispatch :
Baidu reports Q4 revenue of $4.64B, up 4.8% YoY, driven by a 52% increase in its non-ad businesses, and forecasts sales of $4B-$4.4B for Q1, topping estimates
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg : Tweets: @business Tweets: @business : Baidu's quarterly revenue rose a better-than-expected 5% after the company lured users and advertisers back to its core search busine...
Reflecting on DuckDuckGo's rise as the privacy-focused search engine and the possibility of increased market share because of EU regulatory pressure
Matt Burgess / WIRED UK : Tweets: @duckduckgo , @yegg , and @mattburgess1 Tweets: @duckduckgo : We're fighting alongside everyone who believes privacy online should be simple and available to everyon...