Weekly Update - March 23, 2019: Stadia, Photos, Podcasters

Spring has sprung, as well as spell novel Google products are budding, we’re downward to the lastly calendar week for Google+ as well as Inbox. Consumer Google+ volition live shutting downward inwards ix days. Here is where yous tin discover me later on the shutdown of Google: You tin subscribe to my weblog updates yesteryear electronic mail or merely the Weekly Updates yesteryear email, or if yous work Feedly or some other feed reader, subscribe to the feed. I regularly post on Twitter, as well as irregularly post tutorials to YouTube. I convey accounts on MeWe as well as Pluspora, but I haven't actually used either yet. .

• MySpace lost all the music users uploaded betwixt 2003 as well as 2015 when migrating to novel servers. Apparently in that place was no usable backup (or MySpace merely can’t live bothered).
• Google Photos is introducing “Express backup” that provides faster backup at a reduced resolution, along alongside a Data Cap setting to foreclose high mobile information usage. These novel features are available to users inwards Bharat as well as is rolling out tardily inwards other countries
• 9to5Google reports Google Tasks straightaway lets yous add a appointment as well as time, create repeating tasks as well as import your Reminders.
• Google has posted their 2018 Webspam report: they reduced the behaviour upon of “user-generated spam” of depression character complimentary blogs as well as spammy forum posts yesteryear 80%, as well as are notwithstanding fighting link spam. They encourage reporting spam inwards the search results as well as are providing to a greater extent than tools for webmasters as well as developers to assist create high character content. Check out the study for details.
• Enter your website alongside a .page, .app or .dev domain in the Google Registry Website Competition yesteryear Apr 30th. Winners volition have a Pixel 3 (or equivalent) as well as the chance to live featured on i of Google Registry's websites (get.page, get.app and get.dev). You tin also teach a 25% discount at Wordpress.com through the competitor deadline on Apr 30th.
• The Google News Initiative is i twelvemonth old, as well as has provided tools as well as preparation for hundreds of thousands of journalists world-wide. Two fact checking tools volition live coming out of beta really soon: Fact Check Markup, which is an piece of cake agency for reporters to add together structured information markup to their fact checking content, as well as Fact Check Explorer to assist journalists discover fact checking articles.
• Google was fined to a greater extent than than $1.7 billion by the European Union for “illegal practices inwards search advertising brokering”, including preventing publishers from placing additional 3rd political party ads on AdSense for Search results pages. Google changed those policies inwards 2016 as well as has made other changes inwards response to the European Commission’s “feedback” including how Google Shopping industrial plant as well as (coming soon) scream for Android device users inwards Europe which search as well as browser apps they prefer to use.
• It was revealed this calendar week thatgoo.gl link shortener API shutting downward (existing goo.gl links volition dice along to work)
• March 31: YouTube Creators inwards the USA & Canada: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp New York #YouTubeLatino
• March (end): Updates to Google Webmasters Search Console
• April 2: Consumer Google+ nigh down (Previously as well as Previouslier)
• April 2: Inbox yesteryear Gmail shuts down
• April 7: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp United Mexican States City Special Edition: Nextup for Gamers (also)
• April 9: Google Partners Academy on Air: Incorporating YouTube into your surgery strategy
• April 9-11: Google Cloud Next ‘19

Stadia

• Stadia: a novel agency to play (Google)
• The big interview: Phil Harrison as well as Majd Bakar on Google Stadia (Eurogamer)
• 2019-02-08: Google+ Is Being Shuttered, Have We Preserved Enough of It? (Web Science as well as Digital Libraries Research Group)
• An updated innovation & resources for upcoming changes to Google Groups settings (NOT related to Google+) (G Suite Updates)
• Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded betwixt 2003 as well as 2015 (BoingBoing)
• Being An Instagram Influencer Is Hard Work, So This Guy Made Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Bot To Do It For Him (Buzzfeed News)
• Coming to India: Express, a faster agency to dorsum upward alongside Google Photos (Google India)
• This twelvemonth inwards Search Spam - Webspam study 2018 (Google Webmasters)
• Google starts ‘subscriptions lab’ for local publishers to develop paid content (DigiDay)
• Google Search Console updates sitemaps study (Google Webmasters)
• Google apologizes for rel=next/prev mixup (SearchEngine Land)
• Google Webmasters work hours Hangout (March 19) (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmasters work hours Hangout (Google Webmasters)

AdSense as well as advertising

• New guide: Rethink your eCommerce sense alongside Google Ad Manager (Google Ad Manager)
• The official Google Advertiser Community is moving to a novel habitation inwards April (Google Advertiser Community)
• Google fined $1.7 billion for search promotion blocks inwards tertiary European Union sanction (Reuters)
• New Hangouts Meet peripheral number alerts as well as improved connectivity alerts (G Suite Updates)
• Google Mobile Developer Day at Game Developers Conference 2019 (Android Developers)

Productivity

• Set start times as well as import reminders inwards Tasks (G Suite Updates)
• Introducing prepare ticket booking on Google Pay, powered yesteryear IRCTC (Google India)
• It’s straightaway easier to insert images inwards cells inwards Google Sheets (G Suite Updates)
• Work smarter alongside the novel Priority page inwards Drive (G Suite Updates)
• New Drive file suggestions inwards Chrome launching inwards beta (G Suite Updates)
• Google Calendar automatic room suggestions available on mobile (G Suite Updates)
• View Calendar trial creators to easily swap coming together rooms (G Suite Updates)
• Stable Channel Update for Desktop (Chrome 73) (Chrome Releases)
• Bing delivers text-to-speech as well as greater coverage of intelligent answers as well as visual search (Bing)
• Dropbox adds three-device bound for complimentary users (The Verge)
• Privacy as well as Security
• Facebook apps logged users’ passwords inwards plaintext, because why not (Ars Technica)
• Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords inwards Plain Text for Years (Krebs on Security)
• Most Android anti-virus apps are garbage (Wired)

European Copyright Directive

• The #SaveYourInternet create produce against Article 17 [ex Art. 13] continues (SaveYourInternet)
• Four Wikipedias to ‘black out’ over European Union Copyright Directive (Wikimedia Foundation)
• ERROR: COPYRIGHT NOT DETECTED. What European Union Redditors Can Expect to See Today as well as Why It Matters (Reddit)

More merely about the web

• Play alongside the AI-powered Google doodle honoring JS Bach (Google)
• The Google News Initiative, i twelvemonth in (Google)
• Supporting alternative as well as competitor inwards Europe (Google)