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— Marcos Besteiro 👧🏻👶🏻 (@MarcosBL) February 23, 2024
Every. Single. New. Google. Product. pic.twitter.com/7XAaKknrOQ
— Marcos Besteiro 👧🏻👶🏻 (@MarcosBL) February 23, 2024
Last week, Google sent a cashier's check to the US government that it claimed in a court filing covers "every dollar the United States could conceivably hope to recover" in damages during the Google adtech monopoly trial scheduled to start this September.
According to Google, sending the check moots the government's sole claim for damages, which in turn foils the government's plan to seek a jury trial under its damages claim. While Google disputes liability for any of the government's claims, the payment serves to "prevent the tail from wagging the dog," the court filing said.
It's unclear just how big the check was. The court filing redacted key figures to protect Google's trade secrets. But Google claimed that testimony from US experts "shrank" the damages estimate "considerably" from initial estimates between $100 million and $300 million, suggesting that the current damages estimate is "substantially less" than what the US has paid so far in expert fees to reach those estimates.
According to Reuters, Google has not disclosed "the size of its payment" but has said that "after months of discovery, the Justice Department could only point to estimated damages of less than $1 million."
"Rather than require the court to wade into DOJ’s uncharted and unwarranted demand for a jury trial, and to prevent the waste of resources that would result from defending against a damages claim worth far less than a fraction of the cost of litigation, Google has tendered the United States payment of the full amount of damages it seeks, trebled, plus prejudgment interest," Google's court filing said.
Zerosquare (./1115) :Google Search adds a “web” filter, because it is no longer focused on web resultsArs TechnicaGoogle Search now has an option to search the "web," which is not the default anymore.
"&udm=14" line is the one that will put you in a web search. Tack it on to the end of a normal search, and you'll be booted into the clean 10 blue links interface.
Google URL Shortener links will no longer be availabledevelopers.googleblog.com
In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the number of new popular URL shortening services that emerged in that time. This meant that we no longer accepted new URLs to shorten but that we would continue serving existing URLs.
Today, the time has come to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener. Please read on below to understand more about how this will impact you if you’re using Google URL Shortener.
Who is impacted?
Any developers using links built with the Google URL Shortener in the form https://goo.gl/* will be impacted, and these URLs will no longer return a response after August 25th, 2025.
What to expect
Starting August 23, 2024, goo.gl links will start displaying an interstitial page for a percentage of existing links notifying your users that the link will no longer be supported after August 25th, 2025 prior to navigating to the original target page.
Brunni (./1125) :Une simple base de données en read-only, vu que ça fait 5 ans qu'on ne peut plus créer de nouveaux liens en goo.gl. Et ils ont un autre service de redirection de liens qui est toujours supporté, donc l'infrastructure derrière continuera à exister. Commit dit Zeph, pour une boîte de la taille de Google, c'est vraiment pas grand-chose.
Non le service de redirection est temporaire. Il faut une base de données pour restaurer les liens.
Zeph (./1126) :Pour les managers chez Google, créer un nouveau service est un moyen connu d'obtenir un poste plus élevé dans la hiérarchie. J'imagine qu'ils ont aussi un bonus s'ils suppriment un service qui ne génère pas (suffisamment) de sous. Par contre, maintenir un service en vie n'est pas valorisé, même quand ses utilisateurs sont nombreux. Du coup, ben... :/
J'ai également du mal à croire que ce soit absolument le service à tuer étant donné le coût de maintenance que ça implique pour eux 🤔
Zerosquare (./1139) :C'est ça qui me fait marrer, on se fout de twitter dont la modération a disparu après le rachat mais la ils n'ont pas viré les gens mais la modération a quand même disparu...
Quelqu'un a vérifié s'il restait encore quelques êtres humains chez Google, ou si les machines ont désormais pris intégralement le pouvoir ?