Aug 14th 2019
This Week in Google 521
Bill Nye the Chromebook Guy
Pixel 4 90hz Display, EU Search Auction
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This Week's Stories
- The difficult past 3 years at Google
- Rivals angry at Google's EU search engine auction
- Google's next anti-trust complaint: job search
- Incognito mode cat and mouse
- Pixel boss moves up at Google
- Did you own an OG Pixel? Here's how to get $20!
- How will the Pixel 4's Soli radar work?
- Pixel 4 to have 90hz display
- Bill Nye hawks Chromebooks
- Android Q back swiping kerfuffle
- Unionizing YouTube
- The privileges of popularity on YouTube
- Facebook wants to be your source for news (again)
- Fighting over Section 230 press
- Google Maps AR navigation comes to more phones
Picks of the week
- Stacey's Thing: Don't buy the Echo Auto
- Jeff's Number: 1619
- Jason's Thing: JBL Link Bar
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Links
- THREE YEARS OF MISERY INSIDE GOOGLE, THE HAPPIEST COMPANY IN TECH
- Google’s rivals opt out of search engine auction, calling it ‘unethical’ and ‘anti-competitive’
- Google’s jobs search draws antitrust complaints from rivals
- The New York Times is still detecting Chrome Incognito Mode after Google’s fix
- Scoop: Pixel boss getting a new job at Google
- Google to pay original Pixel owners up to $500 over microphone issue
- Google Pixel 4 will reportedly jump on the 90Hz display bandwagon
- Bill Nye makes a 3-minute commercial for Chromebooks
- Watch Out Google, YouTubers Are Unionizing
- 11 current and past YouTube moderators say popular creators like Logan Paul often get special treatment in the form of looser in
- Facebook wants to be relevant in news again, and it’s willing to pay millions to bring back publishers
- Facebook and governance by Jarvis
- Beto to journalism: ‘What the fuck?’
- The Fight Over Section 230—and the Internet as We Know It
- Google Maps AR Navigation comes to iPhones and Android devices
- Google will now let Android users log in to some services without a password
- Chrome experimenting with tab grouping in Canary
- Chrome OS 76 released to stable with Android-style media controls, virtual desktop support, and more
- Google Docs gets new fonts to improve reading speed, so now everyone can reject your screenplay much faster
- Google for Education launches originality reports to curb student plagiarism
- Google will start surfacing individual podcast episodes in search results
- Google Pay drops support for Visa Checkout ahead of planned shutdown in 2020
- Verizon is selling Tumblr to WordPress’ owner
- JBL Link Bar
- Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written.
- Tom Steyer’s Facebook Money Bomb Worked — the Billionaire Is About to Qualify for the Democratic Debates
- Echo Auto