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Confession: I’ve spent the past two weeks speed-dating. Not people, but phones. Some were overly luxurious, offering flashy features and bold promises that were simply too lavish for my lifestyle. Others were quietly compelling.

One of the first tests I conduct while evaluating smartwatches is GPS location accuracy — I want to see how close it can track my actual path. Most of the time, the overall distance is fairly close, but zooming in on the GPS track reveals differences in where I walked. Google focused heavily on improving…

Sure, this is likely an attempt to juice those Gemini usage numbers, but it also comes with 5TB of cloud storage.

Several years ago, Google Meet introduced a feature that takes notes during your virtual meetings. As of this week, Google’s meeting software can now sit in and take notes on your in-person offline meetings, too. 

A few days ago, Google announced a new feature for Wallet — the ability to send money to a child’s Google Wallet account so they can securely spend money with the app’s tap-to-pay feature on a compatible Android phone or watch. 

WeatherNext can deliver a 15-day forecast predicting storms’ track and intensity.

Google announced on Thursday that Google Maps’ “Ask Maps” feature is gaining a slew of new agentic capabilities, including the ability to order food, book hotels, and find event tickets. The tech giant is also bringing Personal Intelligence to Ask Maps, allowing the AI tool to personalize its responses by drawing on information from a…

For two years, AI search performance has operated as a black box. Brands could see that AI Overviews were growing, that click-through rates were falling, and that something had changed in how Google surfaced content. But first-party data on what was actually happening inside AI features was not available.

You’ve spent hours learning the most effective SEO tactics, but they won’t be useful if you can’t measure them.

Responsive search ads are very flexible ads that automatically adapt to show the right message to the right customer. You enter multiple headlines and descriptions when creating the ad. Google’s machine learning systems will mix headlines and descriptions and test different combinations of the ads to learn which performs best over time. The most relevant…