Google Maps is getting a new AI captions feature that aims to boost user contributions in the platform by simplifying the process.

“Ask Maps,” rolling out today to Google Maps on mobile, lets you ask Gemini questions about locations and even to plan trips on your behalf. Ask Maps is first coming to Google Maps users in the US and ...

Google has removed a whole section from its JavaScript SEO documentation because it was outdated and Google says loading content with JavaScript does not make it hard for Google Search. Google wrote ...

Google removed outdated JavaScript and accessibility guidance from its documentation. Google Search has rendered JavaScript well for years. It's the latest in a series of JS documentation updates.

Reddit users have begun to complain that YouTube Android and iOS apps show persistent overlay ads in the bottom left-hand corner -- just as Google launches the general availability of “Video Reach ...

After years of appeals, Google has finally received conditional approval to export high-precision geographic information out of South Korea, a move that opens the door to let the company provide ...

SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea will soon no longer be one of the few countries where Google Maps doesn’t work properly, after its security-conscious government reversed a two-decade stance to ...

Google Cloud API keys, normally used as simple billing identifiers for APIs such as Maps or YouTube, could be scraped from websites to give access to private Gemini AI project data, researchers from ...

Winners & losers: Google appears to have joined the list of companies that gatekeep their products' more popular features behind a sign-in wall. Its Google Maps navigation tool is now showing a ...

Gemini now has more visual search results from Maps. Previously, results were mostly text. Results now include photos, review highlights, and more. If you use Gemini to help find restaurants, coffee ...

For the last two years, the fundamental unit of generative AI development has been the "completion." You send a text prompt to a model, it sends text back, and the transaction ends. If you want to ...

Google has updated its JavaScript SEO basics documentation to clarify how Google’s crawler handles noindex tags in pages that use JavaScript. In short, if “you do want the page indexed, don’t use a ...