Weekly Update - January 26, 2019: Hangouts, Youtube, Webmasters As Well As More

Jan is coming to a close, in addition to this calendar week nosotros got a information nigh what volition endure happening inwards the coming months for YouTube, Hangouts inwards G Suite, Search Console in addition to more. No, at that topographic point hasn’t been an update from Google+ nigh the Apr shutdown for consumer users. There also has non been whatsoever update from Blogger nigh what volition endure happening to Google+ features.

• Beginning of the end? Buffer ended Google+ back upwardly on Jan 25th and Hootsuite volition halt Google+ back upwardly on Jan 28th. Other social media management platforms that offering integration alongside Google+ volition also endure affected every bit there may endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API starting the 28th. While this won’t ship on posting to Google+ directly, businesses, organizations, in addition to Pages that travel 3rd political party tools to access Google+ may halt posting altogether. 
• New Google+ migration alternative: LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. Todd Hawk is answering questions inwards the “G+” Community Owners in addition to Moderators community nigh how it works.
• YouTube announced they volition endure reducing recommendations for content that could "misinform inwards harmful ways", similar "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming Blue Planet is flat, or making blatantly faux claims nigh historic events similar 9/11."
• YouTube has a novel informative FAQ answering questions nigh copyright claims and companies that may endure abusing the Content ID system.
• G Suite users volition endure moved from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat in addition to Meet inwards October. All G Suite domains volition accept Hangouts Chat enabled inwards April, in addition to Google promises a issue of novel features volition endure rolled out earlier Classic Hangouts is retired *for G Suite users only*. This update volition non ship on consumer users, who volition endure able to perish on using Classic Hangouts. Eventually consumer users volition endure transitioned to Chat in addition to Meet too, but at that topographic point is no timeline for that yet.
• Google Voice is rolling out voice-over-IP calling to all users. This lets Voice users brand calls using the Google Voice app on mobile devices or at voice.google.com every bit an alternative to placing calls through Google Hangouts. 
• G Suite Realtime Comms production Pb Scott Johnston announced on Twitter that Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available exterior the US, starting alongside Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, in addition to the UK. There are sadly no plans to offering * Google Voice to consumer users internationally. If you lot are interested, apply for the Early access Program. 
• Google Search Console is a gratuitous tool that lets webmasters assess site functioning inwards Google Search. Features are gradually beingness moved from the erstwhile version of Search Console to the novel version. At the end of March at that topographic point volition endure a pregnant update. What’s going: Crawl Errors report, fetch every bit Google tool, HTML suggestions, Property Sets, Android apps data. What’s new: Structured information dashboard alongside reports organized past times “vertical” (like Jobs, Recipes, in addition to Events).
• Gmail has novel features: an Undo/Redo button, slow strikethrough formatting, in addition to the mightiness to download messages every bit .EML files (which tin terminate endure imported into other e-mail clients).
• If you lot are interested inwards Blogger, check out my appearance on Michael Daniel’s Tinkering alongside Tech show. I acquire through around of the basic settings in addition to respond questions.

Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips in addition to updates for YouTube creators, concern owners, advertisers in addition to more.

Image: Monday, Jan 28th is Data Protection Day in Europe in addition to Data Privacy Day inwards the relaxation of the world. I idea that deserved a cheesy all-your-data-is-secure graphic. To celebrate run a Security Checkup on your Google Account. Image past times JanBaby on Pixabay.

Upcoming

• January 25: Buffer removed pick to part to Google+
• January 28: HootSuite back upwardly for Google+ ends
• January 28: There volition get-go to endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API. The Google+ API volition endure fully closed downward March 7. The Google+ API lets external sites in addition to apps connect to Google+. 
• January 31: YouTube Video Credits removed
• January 31: YouTube removes pick to automatically part to Google+ in addition to Twitter
• February 1: Deadline for tidings organizations to apply for Newspack past times Wordpress.com 
• February 5: Old Google Contacts closed down

YouTube in addition to Video Creation

• YouTube improving recommendations (YouTube)
• YouTube TV goes nationwide, inwards fourth dimension for the Super Bowl (YouTube)
• Answers to your questions nigh copyright claims on YouTube (YouTube)
• Yellow $ trouble? Ask YouTube policy specialists nigh the advertiser-friendly guidelines inwards Jan 25th AMA (YouTube)
• YouTube Music Unveils its First-Ever 'Artists to Watch' inwards Commonwealth of Australia in addition to New Zealand (Google Australia)

Go Live

• Google Ad Manager Integration for Live in addition to On-Demand Video (IBM Video Streaming)

Google+

• LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. (Todd Hawk inwards the “G+” Community Owners in addition to Moderators community)

Other social media

• Focusing on the novel Search Console, moving features in addition to deprecating others (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (January 22) (Google Webmasters) 

AdSense in addition to advertising

• Google hitting alongside £44m GDPR fine over ads (BBC News)
• Bringing to a greater extent than transparency to the Indian Lok Sabha Election 2019 (Google India)
• Google Partners Academy on Air: Simplify in addition to grown your concern alongside machine learning (Google Partners)

Hangouts in addition to Messaging

• Upcoming Hangouts service consolidation for all G Suite customers (G Suite Updates)
• Two novel Hangouts Meet tools added to the Admin console: lineament tool in addition to action logs (G Suite Updates)
• Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available internationally (Scott Johnston)
• New Gmail compose formatting in addition to download options (G Suite Updates)
• Find to a greater extent than remainder inwards your life this year, alongside assist from Google (Google)

Privacy in addition to Security

• How practice you lot principle the evolution of artificial intelligence? Policymakers are trying to figure that out (New York Times)
• Yes, “algorithms” tin terminate endure biased. Here’s why (Ars Technica)
• Verizon Lays Off 800 Employees Within ‘Media Group’, Comprising Yahoo, Tumblr, More (Tubefilter)
• BuzzFeed has started its layoffs, but it’s also talking nigh a merger (Recode)
• Google asks Supreme Court to dominion on when code tin terminate endure copyrighted (The Verge)
• Oracle v. Google in addition to the time to come of software development (Google)
• Expanding noesis access alongside the Wikimedia Foundation (Google)

Weekly Update - October 27, 2018: Youtube, Maps, Lens

Happy almost-Halloween everyone! There are unopen to treats for creators this week.

• YouTube Premieres are now available to all Creators. Set a appointment as well as fourth dimension for your uploaded video to “premiere” as well as a video lookout adult man page is created amongst comments as well as alive chat both. Your fans tin hence lookout adult man the premiere of your video together piece they chat. 
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki posted her final update for 2018, amongst a plea to users that they "tell the world" how they volition endure impacted yesteryear Article xiii of the EU's novel copyright legislation, as well as paints a dire painting almost the possible outcome: it "could forcefulness platforms, similar YouTube, to allow exclusively content from a modest issue of large companies." She also gave an overview novel features implemented over the yesteryear year, as well as announced the new "YouTube Learning" initiative to back upward high character educational content. 
• You tin now follow businesses inward Google Maps to encounter events, offers as well as other updates. Makes a lot of feel for businesses - forthwith when they practise a Post, potential customers are to a greater extent than probable to encounter those updates. 
• Google volition endure discontinuing Android Nearby Notifications inward December. These are notifications from physical beacons that force notifications to nearby devices, for lawsuit a schedule at a double-decker halt or guides at a museum. Why unopen it down? Google noticed “a meaning increase inward locally irrelevant as well as spammy notifications that were leading to a miserable user experience.”
• There are novel .new domains that are shortcuts to creating a novel Google Doc, Sheet, Form, Slides or Site. Try doc.new, form.new, slide.new, deck.new, or site.new - or i of the alternatives.
• Google Lens is forthwith available inward Google’s Image Search. Lens uses artificial intelligence to search for information related to a selected component of the image. You could go it to abide by a shirt for sale that matches what a film star is wearing, or larn to a greater extent than almost landmarks, animals, plants or other objects inward a photo. Google points out that this is unopen to other agency for website owners for their content to seem inward search, hence brand certain that y'all are next their image publishing guidelines. Lens inward Images is alive on the mobile spider web for people inward the U.S. searching inward English linguistic communication as well as volition endure available inward to a greater extent than places as well as languages soon. 
• At TwitchCon Twitch announced a bunch of novel features that volition endure available over the coming months, including “Twitch Sings” alive karaoke, "Squad Stream" that lets iv creators flow inward a unmarried view, new extensions, addition novel moderation as well as community tools. 
• Reddit has A Final Update on YouTube Priorities for 2018 (Susan Wojcicki)
• YouTube Premieres are forthwith available to all Creators 
• YouTube Learning: Investing inward educational creators, resources, as well as tools for EduTubers (YouTube blog)
• How as well as why to go hashtags on YouTube (Robert Wallis)

Go Live

• TwitchCon 2018 Keynote: Everything You Need to Know (Twitch Blog)
• New Extension Experiences Launching at TwitchCon (Twitch Blog)

Google+

• Google+ volition no longer back upward Internet Explorer 10 inward Oct 2018 (G Suite Updates)
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• Lights Out Google+ is a community for those who volition remain to the bitter halt (Eli Fennell)
• Google+ Mass Migration Forum AMA: Eugen Rochko, the creator of the Mastodon microblogging platform

Other social media

• Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo? (Joshua Schachter)
• Google tackles novel advertising fraud scheme (Google Security blog)
• Four tips from AdSense to laid upward your website for the vacation season (AdSense on YouTube)
• Google Partners Discover: Audience Strategies for the Holiday Season (Google Partners)

Hangouts as well as Messaging

• Chrome Stable Channel Update for Desktop: Chrome 70 (Chrome Releases)
• How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’ The mesh giant paid Mr. Rubin $90 1000000 as well as praised him, piece keeping soundless almost a misconduct claim. (New York Times)
• Google workers fume over executives’ payouts subsequently sexual misconduct claims (New York Times)
• Matt Cutts gets the official nod for transcend spot at USDS (Fedscoop)
• How many of these sites that shaped the mesh stimulate got y'all visited? (Gizmodo)
• The Myth of Whiteness inward Classical Sculpture (the New Yorker)
• Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling for Bloomberg to retract its Chinese spy chip even out (BuzzFeed)

Updated March 2019 to supercede Google+ links

Weekly Update - November 10, 2018: Youtube, Piracy, Android

The air is cooling, leaves are falling, in addition to California is burning. Some folks tin lavatory reckon wintertime on the horizon. Nonetheless  updates are appearing.

• This calendar week inwards the official Google+ Aspire Community, I talked close how to larn your Google+ followers to subscribe to your YouTube channel, tips for sharing your videos to Google+, differences betwixt next somebody on Google+and YouTube in addition to and hence forth. The #CreateConnection conversation is over, simply you tin lavatory all the same read the discussion.
• With concluding week’s annunciation that Flickr volition live on limiting gratuitous accounts to exclusively grand photos in addition to videos, in that place was cracking trouble organisation that much of the Android Dev Summit. Most of tidings is largely of involvement to Android Developers, simply in that place were some tidbits for users too, similar that Android volition back upward foldable phones.

Plus in that place are to a greater extent than tips in addition to updates for YouTubers, slide makers, alive streamers, Hangouts Meeters in addition to more. Read on for details.

Resources for people affected past times the California wildfires

• Camp dismiss inwards Butte County: Google SOS Alert, Facebook Crisis Response
• Woolsey dismiss in addition to Hill fires inwards Southern California: Google SOS Alert, Facebook Crisis Response

Image: Detail from Butterflies in addition to Poppies, past times Vincent van Gogh, 1889 (Public Domain)

Upcoming

• November 13: Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
• November 15: YouTube Learning Fund application deadline
• November 16: Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout
• November 18: Deadline to apply for the Google Podcasts Creator Program
• November 20: AdSense on Air: All you lot take to know close the HTTPS migration 

YouTube in addition to Video Creation

• The YouTube App is straightaway available on Nintendo Switch! (YouTube)
• As business office of anti-piracy efforts YouTube has paid to a greater extent than than $3 Billion to rights holders through Content ID (Google Blog)
• YouTube wants to know what you lot recall close retiring legacy Annotations (Creator Insider)
• Google Search Console Tests New Domain Property (SEO Roundtable)

AdSense in addition to advertising

• Understanding AdSense Policy: Dangerous or derogatory content (AdSense on YouTube)
• Understanding AdSense Policy: Encouraging Accidental Clicks (AdSense on YouTube)
• Understanding AdSense Policy: Misrepresentative Content (AdSense on YouTube)
• Invite people to an ongoing Hangouts Meet meeting (G Suite Updates)
• Hangouts Meet add-in for Microsoft Outlook available (G Suite Updates)
• Creating asynchronous bot requests inwards Hangouts Chat (Cloud Blog)

Made past times Google, Android, Project Fi

• Unfolding correct straightaway at #AndroidDevSummit! (Android Developers)
• Get your app cook for foldable phones (Android Developers)
• Introducing the Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report (Google Security blog)

Productivity

• Files Go is straightaway Files past times Google: the file management app for every Android user (Google Blog)
• Copy formatting to multiple objects inwards Google Slides (G Suite Updates)
• Chrome stable Channel Update for Desktop (Chrome Releases)

Privacy in addition to Security

• Chrome Update: notifying users of unclear subscription pages on mobile (Chromium blog)
• Beware mistaken Google back upward numbers! (discussion on Google+)
• Scam Alert: Fake Customer Service Numbers Posted In Forums (Chris Andrews)

More around the web

• The Free Music Archive is closing this month (The Verge)
• Sundar Pichai’s notation to Google employees regarding changes to treatment sexual harassment (Google Blog)
• Continuing the struggle against kid sexual abuse online (Google Blog)
• Celebrating the adjacent generation of game makers on the Google Play Store (Google Blog)

Updated March 2019 to take Google+ links.

G Suite Users Moving To Hangouts Chat In Addition To Regard Inwards October

Update August 2019: Final migration of G Suite customers from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat has been postponed until after June 2020.

Google has announced that G Suite Users volition survive moved from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat together with Hangouts Meet inward October. If yous accept a consumer Google concern human relationship hence this volition NOT behaviour upon you.

The higher upward dates are specific to G Suite customers together with their terminate users who role classic Hangouts. We volition transcend on to support consumer role of classic Hangouts, together with await to transition consumers to gratuitous Chat together with Meet next the transition of G Suite customers. H5N1 to a greater extent than specific timeline volition survive communicated at a afterwards date.

Hangouts Meet video calling is attain to go. It's already possible to accept grouping video calls alongside people exterior your arrangement together with has many improved features. Compare Hangouts Meet to classic Hangouts video calling to run into the differences.

Hangouts Chat on the other paw is nevertheless a operate inward progress. Google has promised a release of pregnant novel features volition survive added earlier the transition inward Oct to brand that procedure less painful.

Here is what volition survive happening alongside Hangouts Chat over the adjacent ix months:

April 16, 2019: for G Suite domains using classic Hangouts, Hangouts Chat volition automatically survive enabled for the spider web together with mobile devices. Users tin transcend on to role classic Hangouts.

Between Apr together with September: Google volition survive adding novel features to Hangouts Chat, including:

• Integration alongside Gmail
• Chatting alongside external users
• An improved video calling experience
• Making calls alongside Google Voice

October 2019: Classic Hangouts volition survive retired for G Suite together with users volition survive transitioned to Hangouts Chat.

If yous are a G Suite administrator, survive certain to read the official statement on the G Suite Updates blog. That has to a greater extent than details most changes to G Suite admin settings for Hangouts together with Google Vault.

One-to-one conversations tin survive accessed from both Classic together with Chat

Direct messages can survive accessed inward both classic Hangouts together with Hangouts Chat. Currently that's alone available for one-to-one conversations betwixt users on the same domain. In Apr 2019, users of classic Hangouts tin straight message whatever Hangouts Chat user, including external users.

Group conversations are not accessible from both classic Hangouts together with Hangouts Chat. Any grouping conversations inward classic Hangouts volition accept to survive re-created inward Hangouts Chat.

Learn to a greater extent than most interoperability betwixt classic Hangouts together with Hangouts Chat

Weekly Update - January 26, 2019: Hangouts, Youtube, Webmasters Too More

Jan is coming to a close, too this calendar week nosotros got a information nearly what volition endure happening inward the coming months for YouTube, Hangouts inward G Suite, Search Console too more. No, at that spot hasn’t been an update from Google+ nearly the Apr shutdown for consumer users. There also has non been whatever update from Blogger nearly what volition endure happening to Google+ features.

• Beginning of the end? Buffer ended Google+ back upwards on Jan 25th and Hootsuite volition cease Google+ back upwards on Jan 28th. Other social media administration platforms that offering integration amongst Google+ volition also endure affected every bit there may endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API starting the 28th. While this won’t comport on posting to Google+ directly, businesses, organizations, too Pages that purpose 3rd political party tools to access Google+ may halt posting altogether. 
• New Google+ migration alternative: LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. Todd Hawk is answering questions inward the “G+” Community Owners too Moderators community nearly how it works.
• YouTube announced they volition endure reducing recommendations for content that could "misinform inward harmful ways", similar "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming earth is flat, or making blatantly simulated claims nearly historic events similar 9/11."
• YouTube has a novel informative FAQ answering questions nearly copyright claims and companies that may endure abusing the Content ID system.
• G Suite users volition endure moved from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat too Meet inward October. All G Suite domains volition convey Hangouts Chat enabled inward April, too Google promises a issue of novel features volition endure rolled out earlier Classic Hangouts is retired *for G Suite users only*. This update volition non comport on consumer users, who volition endure able to hold using Classic Hangouts. Eventually consumer users volition endure transitioned to Chat too Meet too, but at that spot is no timeline for that yet.
• Google Voice is rolling out voice-over-IP calling to all users. This lets Voice users brand calls using the Google Voice app on mobile devices or at voice.google.com every bit an alternative to placing calls through Google Hangouts. 
• G Suite Realtime Comms production atomic number 82 Scott Johnston announced on Twitter that Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available exterior the US, starting amongst Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, too the UK. There are sadly no plans to offering * Google Voice to consumer users internationally. If y'all are interested, apply for the Early access Program. 
• Google Search Console is a gratuitous tool that lets webmasters assess site surgical physical care for inward Google Search. Features are gradually beingness moved from the sometime version of Search Console to the novel version. At the end of March at that spot volition endure a meaning update. What’s going: Crawl Errors report, fetch every bit Google tool, HTML suggestions, Property Sets, Android apps data. What’s new: Structured information dashboard amongst reports organized past times “vertical” (like Jobs, Recipes, too Events).
• Gmail has novel features: an Undo/Redo button, slow strikethrough formatting, too the might to download messages every bit .EML files (which tin endure imported into other electronic mail clients).
• If y'all are interested inward Blogger, check out my appearance on Michael Daniel’s Tinkering amongst Tech show. I acquire through simply about of the basic settings too respond questions.

Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips too updates for YouTube creators, draw concern owners, advertisers too more.

Image: Monday, Jan 28th is Data Protection Day in Europe too Data Privacy Day inward the ease of the world. I idea that deserved a cheesy all-your-data-is-secure graphic. To celebrate run a Security Checkup on your Google Account. Image past times JanBaby on Pixabay.

Upcoming

• January 25: Buffer removed choice to portion to Google+
• January 28: HootSuite back upwards for Google+ ends
• January 28: There volition showtime to endure “intermittent failures” of the Google+ API. The Google+ API volition endure fully unopen downwards March 7. The Google+ API lets external sites too apps connect to Google+. 
• January 31: YouTube Video Credits removed
• January 31: YouTube removes choice to automatically portion to Google+ too Twitter
• February 1: Deadline for intelligence organizations to apply for Newspack past times Wordpress.com 
• February 5: Old Google Contacts unopen down

YouTube too Video Creation

• YouTube improving recommendations (YouTube)
• YouTube TV goes nationwide, inward fourth dimension for the Super Bowl (YouTube)
• Answers to your questions nearly copyright claims on YouTube (YouTube)
• Yellow $ trouble? Ask YouTube policy specialists nearly the advertiser-friendly guidelines inward Jan 25th AMA (YouTube)
• YouTube Music Unveils its First-Ever 'Artists to Watch' inward Commonwealth of Australia too New Zealand (Google Australia)

Go Live

• Google Ad Manager Integration for Live too On-Demand Video (IBM Video Streaming)

Google+

• LifeCloud has a Google+ Data Importer for re-creating Google+ Communities. (Todd Hawk inward the “G+” Community Owners too Moderators community)

Other social media

• Focusing on the novel Search Console, moving features too deprecating others (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (January 22) (Google Webmasters) 

AdSense too advertising

• Google hitting amongst £44m GDPR fine over ads (BBC News)
• Bringing to a greater extent than transparency to the Indian Lok Sabha Election 2019 (Google India)
• Google Partners Academy on Air: Simplify too grown your draw concern amongst machine learning (Google Partners)

Hangouts too Messaging

• Upcoming Hangouts service consolidation for all G Suite customers (G Suite Updates)
• Two novel Hangouts Meet tools added to the Admin console: character tool too activeness logs (G Suite Updates)
• Google Voice for G Suite volition endure available internationally (Scott Johnston)
• New Gmail compose formatting too download options (G Suite Updates)
• Find to a greater extent than ease inward your life this year, amongst assistance from Google (Google)

Privacy too Security

• How practise y'all principle the evolution of artificial intelligence? Policymakers are trying to figure that out (New York Times)
• Yes, “algorithms” tin endure biased. Here’s why (Ars Technica)
• Verizon Lays Off 800 Employees Within ‘Media Group’, Comprising Yahoo, Tumblr, More (Tubefilter)
• BuzzFeed has started its layoffs, but it’s also talking nearly a merger (Recode)
• Google asks Supreme Court to dominion on when code tin endure copyrighted (The Verge)
• Oracle v. Google too the hereafter of software development (Google)
• Expanding cognition access amongst the Wikimedia Foundation (Google)

Weekly Update: February 9, 2019 - Youtube, Google+, Security

Mid-February feels similar the ticker of winter. It’s been moisture as well as mutual coldness fifty-fifty hither inward sunny California. And online, the sunset of consumer Google+ is finally inward total swing. It’s non all gloom though, read on for updates to YouTube, Android as well as more.

• The shutdown of consumer Google+ took its showtime large steps this week:
• The might to create a novel Google+ Profile or Google+ Page was disabled
• Google+ Comments, badges as well as buttons were removed from Blogger blogs
• Also at some indicate inward February, YouTube volition take away its few remaining Google+ features.
• The Google desktop navigation bar notification bell widget will disappear on March 7th. This is currently alone used for Google+, Google Photos as well as Hangouts Chat (for G Suite) notifications. The alternative is to role browser notifications instead.
• Rarely used Google Groups settings volition last removed inward May 2019 as well as other settings volition last updated. If y'all are using Google Groups, be certain to banking corporation gibe the details virtually what’s changing.
• Facebook announced novel features for community building, including novel Group management tools as well as filters, the might to create Mentorship programs for all Groups, as well as Page admins volition immediately last able to respond to Instagram Direct Messages from their Facebook Page inbox.
• Twitter Susan Wojcicki took a rosy await dorsum at 2018 as well as forrad to the coming year. “Billions of comments were made” as well as at that spot are lots to a greater extent than channels earning 6 figures as well as with to a greater extent than than a meg subscribers (no exact numbers were given). She announced 3 goals for 2019: “supporting creator as well as creative somebody success”, “improving communication as well as engagement”, “living upward to YouTube’s responsibility”. It’s pretty similar to her 2018 priorities for Creators, as well as hence it seems YouTube trying to maintain moving inward the same direction. 
• YouTube Memberships - similar to Twitch Subscriptions or Patreon Sponsorships - are immediately available to Partnered channels with at to the lowest degree 30,000 subscribers.
• If y'all are wondering how Recommendations on YouTube work, last certain to check out in conclusion week’s AMA with the production squad inward the official YouTube community.
• Periscope, Twitter’s alive streaming platform, now lets y'all larn alive with guests, as well as invite anyone inward your audience to bring together your broadcast.
• assigning search metrics to a unmarried Google-selected canonical URL. That volition combine search metrics for unmarried pieces of content that may role multiple URLs, for event divide mobile or AMP pages.
• There are immediately more than five meg paying businesses using Google’s G Suite, which includes email, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Hangouts as well as Google+. That’s simply a modest fraction of the release of gratuitous users, of course.
• February is Black History Month, as well as Twitch as well as YouTube are celebrating Black creators.
• There’s a novel dancing Childish Gambino Playmoji pack for AR Playground on Pixel phones. They are going for a realistic look, as well as he volition fifty-fifty react to your facial expressions. Google wants to meet your trip the calorie-free fantastic moves amongst him inward a #pixeldanceoff .
• Google is working to brand your accounts to a greater extent than secure: For spider web browsing at that spot is a new Google Password Checkup Chrome extension that volition warn y'all when sign inward to a site using compromised credentials And to secure to a greater extent than devices Google introduced Adiantum, a “new cast of encryption … built specifically to run on phones as well as smart devices that don’t convey the specialized hardware to role electrical current methods to encrypt locally stored information efficiently.” This allows many to a greater extent than devices, including smart watches as well as internet-connected medical devices to encrypt sensitive data.
• Google launched 2 novel Android apps for the deaf as well as hard-of-hearing: Live Transcribe uses cloud-based automatic spoken language recognition to display spoken words inward to a greater extent than than seventy languages. Sound Amplifier lets y'all role your wired headphones with your smartphone to augment sounds inward your environs piece reducing background noise.

Read on for to a greater extent than links, tips as well as updates for Plussers, webmasters as well as more.

Image: Thursday, Feb 14th is Valentine’s Day. These candy hearts are for all of you. (photo yesteryear parnote on Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain). Google has a await at dear inward 2019 as well as explains how y'all tin sack avoid the heartache of Valentine’s Day planning with Google.

Upcoming

• February: YouTube removing the remaining Google+ features
• February 12: Old Google Contacts near downwards for G Suite (maybe for consumers too?)
• February 17: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp London: Special Edition #YouTubeBlack

YouTube as well as Video Creation

• YouTube Memberships are immediately available to Partner channels with at to the lowest degree 30,000 subscribers
• YouTube inward 2019: Looking dorsum as well as moving forward (Susan Wojcicki)
• YouTube Recommendations AMA Ask the YouTube Team! (YouTube)
• Creator Insider answers mutual questions virtually YouTube Studio Beta (Creator Insider)

Go Live

• Go Live, Together on Periscope (Periscope)
• New channel moderation tools are immediately alive inward Twitch chat (Twitch)

Google+

• The Google desktop notifications bell volition disappear March seventh - switch to browser notifications for Google+, Photos as well as Hangouts Chat
• Update to Google+ Exporter adds writer get upward tag for Blogger exported posts as well as more(Friends+Me)
• Possible Google+ Community migration option: Tapatalk Groups (Winter Wong)
• Google as well as Brands (have y'all been doing it wrong?) (Robert Wallis @ Social Media)

Bloggers as well as Webmasters

• Consolidating your website traffic on canonical URLs (Google Webmasters)
• Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Gary Ilyes AMA on Reddit  (Reddit r/TechSEO)
• Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (February 5) (Google Webmasters)
• Webmaster Central Office Hours Hangout (February 8) (Google Webmasters)
• Real-time Continuous Transcription with Live Transcribe (Google AI)

Productivity

• Changes to Google Groups settings starting May 6, 2019 (G Suite Updates)
• Upcoming changes to the Google Groups Settings API (Google Cloud)
• Instant tethering comes to to a greater extent than Chromebooks, letting y'all access the mesh with no Wi-Fi access (Google)
• Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS (Chrome 72) (Chrome Releases)
• Chrome for Android Update (Chrome 72) (Chrome Releases)

Privacy as well as Security

• Big Telecom Sold Highly Sensitive Customer GPS Data Typically Used for 911 Calls (Motherboard)
• Use the novel Google Password Checkup Chrome extension to last warned when signing into a site with compromised credentials (Google)
• Introducing Adiantum: Encryption for the Next Billion Users (Google Online Security Blog)
• Google Is working with security researchers to brand the spider web safer for everyone (Google)
• Advancing enquiry on faux well detection (Google)

More roughly the web

• Try your mitt at the fine art of shadow puppetry, with assistance from AI (Google)
• Now is the fourth dimension to educate the European Union copyright directive (Google)

G Suite Migration From Classic Hangouts To Hangouts Chat Postponed Until June 2020

Google has announced that the migration from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat for G Suite users (work as well as schoolhouse accounts) is postponed from Oct 2019 to June 2020.  Migration of consumer users -- personal accounts, unremarkably using an @gmail.com address -- volition hold out after the migration of G Suite users.

"Phase 4" of the migration procedure for G Suite users volition hold out inwards "late 2020". At that fourth dimension all remaining classic Hangouts G Suite users volition hold out moved to Hangouts Chat as well as G Suite users won't hold out able to role classic Hangouts. But "no changes volition hold out made to the consumer version of classic Hangouts. [Hangouts is] continuing to back upwards consumers."

You tin see the updated transition timeline here.

In the meantime, Google volition hold out working to amend the transition process, as well as adding novel features to Hangouts Chat similar Read receipts.

If you lot are a G Suite administrator as well as your organization would similar to migrate to Hangouts Chat earlier that sooner than side past times side June, you lot tin asking an invitation to the Accelerated Transition Program.

More information

• Transition timeline for Hangouts Chat
• Known limitations of Hangouts Chat during the Accelerated Transition Program
• Announcement: Updates to Hangouts Chat migration timelines
• Previously: G Suite users moving to Hangouts Chat as well as Meet inwards Oct 2019

Week Inwards Review - August 24, 2019: Blogger, Youtube, Hangouts

This was a busy calendar week inward the Googleverse, alongside updates for YouTube, Photos, AdSense, Duo in addition to much more. I looked dorsum on Blogger’s 20 years in addition to forrard the rescheduled migration from Hangouts inward slow 2020.

• Twenty years agone this calendar week Blogger was born. I took a await back in addition to utter nearly why Blogger is my chosen blogging platform.
• Starting this calendar month Google Photos is rolling out the might to search your photos past times the text in them. You tin operate built-in Google Lens to re-create the text in 1 lawsuit yous bring out it.
• Engadget reports that updated their policy to start removing “mature” content that targets younger children in addition to families, including videos alongside sexual themes, obscene content, in addition to violence. Previously such videos were age-restricted. Similar content that does non explicitly target younger kids volition transcend on to last age-restricted.
• YouTube Direct Messaging volition last going away September 18. You can download an archive of your chats using Google Takeout.
• G Suite users volition last migrated from classic Hangouts to Hangouts Chat in June, in addition to consumer users non until sometime afterward that. Originally G Suite user migration was scheduled for Oct of this year.
• Google Duo video calling has a novel depression lite mode, to arrive easier for callers to meet each other nether miserable lighting conditions.
• AdSense in addition to AdMob announced they are improving invalid activity detection. If yous are a Publisher in addition to your concern human relationship is affected, yous tin banking concern stand upward for your account’s Policy Center to meet to a greater extent than information to assist yous sympathize why at that spot is reduced lift serving to your site, in addition to information nearly the steps yous tin receive got to resolve whatever issues. Note that the Policy Center does non include actions taken on YouTube.
• prevent user tracking past times “fingerprinting”, which uses “tiny bits of information that vary betwixt users”, similar your device or the fonts yous receive got installed.
  The improve alternative is … cookies. Google argues that cookies are improve privacy-wise because users are aware they are beingness ready in addition to tin clear them. And, they argue, wide-scale blocking of cookie only encourages fingerprinting (which is bad because it invades your privacy) in addition to serving relevant ads (which decreases publisher revenue). I’m non certain whether Google is to a greater extent than concerned alongside the one-time or the latter.
• Pie 🥧 is the final sugariness Android treat. The Android logo was updated to coincide alongside the populace release of Android Q, which volition receive got the official yell … Android 10. Android volition no longer yell novel versions afterward desserts, inward component because they don’t interpret globally in addition to aren’t meaningful to novel users.
• Be certain to receive got a await at my playlist of the videos I propose inward my weekly roundup link list in addition to follow it inward your YouTube account.

Read on for to a greater extent than news, updates in addition to tips for YouTube creators, YouTube Music in addition to YouTube TV, advertisers in addition to lift publishers, Docs in addition to Gmail users, in addition to more.
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Upcoming

• August 25: Deadline to apply for YouTube Nextup Special Edition #womentowatch inward Cairo (creators based inward the Middle East in addition to North Africa including Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia in addition to Republic of Iraq only)
• August 25: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp for EduTubers inward Berlin, Germany
• August 25: Deadline for Adobe Spark Sea.Hear.Now creative challenge
• September 1: Google retiring “unsupported in addition to unpublished rules” (such equally noindex, nofollow in addition to crawl-delay) inward robots.txt
• September 9: Deadline to apply for YouTube NextUp Conhecimento Criativo inward Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

YouTube in addition to Video Creation

• YouTube removing “mature” content targeting children
• Expanding our kid security policies (YouTube)
• YouTube DMs are going away - savy a re-create of your chats!
• YouTube is experimenting alongside video appeals for YouTube Partner Program suspensions (Creator Insider)
• Bugs, Thumbnail A/B Testing, Improvements to Classifiers, in addition to More! (Creator Insider)
• Take your tunes on the road: YouTube Music comes to Waze (YouTube)
• Many Are Abandoning Facebook. These People Have the Opposite Problem. (New York Times)
• Blogger turns 20
• Blogger 20 years; 20 tips (Soraya Lambrechts)
• English Google Webmaster Central office-hours from 23.08.2019 (Google Webmasters)
• Mobile-first Indexing: Is Google Planning Opt-in/Opt-out? #AskGoogleWebmasters (Google Webmasters)
• AdSense improving invalid activity detection; adding activity notifications to your Policy Center
• Additional safeguards to protect the character of our lift network (AdMob)
• Next steps to ensure transparency, alternative in addition to command inward digital advertising (Google Ads)
• The mobile advertising challenge, in addition to how to stair out it (Google Marketing Platform)

Hangouts, Meetings in addition to Messaging

• G Suite users volition last migrated to Hangouts Chat inward June 2020 (G Suite Updates)
• By twenty-four lx minutes catamenia in addition to past times night: video call, no affair the lighting (Google)
• The Google Play store’s visual refresh (Android Developers)
• It’s time: Nest users tin at in 1 lawsuit switch to Google Accounts (Google)

Productivity

• Complete basic PDF forms straight inward Google Drive on mobile (G Suite Updates)
• Improved as-you-type spelling in addition to grammer correction inward Gmail (G Suite Updates)
• Improving real-time collaboration inward Google Docs for assistive technology scientific discipline users (G Suite Updates)
• Protecting Chrome users inward Kazakhstan (Google)
• Potential uses for the Privacy Sandbox (Google Chrome)
• Why Do Tech Companies File So Many Weird, Alarming Patents? (Slate)
• Google Lens, Augmented Reality, in addition to the Future of Learning (Wired)
• Stadia Connect Game Announcements (Stadia on YouTube)
• First glimpse at Google Stadia UI spotted at Gamescom, here’s what it in all probability means (9to5Google)

Weekly Update - September 28, 2019: Youtube, Twitch, Playpass

Raise a toast to Google, that check out the details on this novel agency to brand money.

YouTube introduced new comment filters inwards Studio Beta. In improver to improved keyword search, you lot tin uncovering comments without responses, await for questions, as well as encounter comments from your world subscribers or channels amongst a minimum number of subs. You tin combine filters for fifty-fifty to a greater extent than focused searches. It’s too overnice when an update isn’t making anyone angry.

YouTube’s Creator Insider tells you all you lot desire to know close copyright as well as encompass songs. Did you lot know that merely humming a tune could larn a copyright claim on your video?

Google Bulletin volition live on shutting downwards inwards less than 2 weeks. Bulletin was launched inwards 2018 every bit a platform for easily creating local image-heavy “stories” close events, optimized for mobile as well as updating live. While it’s disappointing it’s shutting down, it never expanded beyond the U.S. of A. as well as Canada, as well as was surprisingly no integrated amongst the Google ecosystem. If you lot created a Bulletin flush you lot tin download your content using the link inwards the electronic mail notification close the shutdown. While it doesn’t conduct keep the same characteristic set, Bulletin suggests using Blogger instead.

The Performance Report inwards Google Search Console straightaway shows information faster, amongst around stats less than a 24-hour interval old. You tin too straightaway encounter the Performance information past times date.

If you lot are a webmaster or blogger, Google has introduced novel ways to command what appears inwards the preview snippet for your site’s pages inwards the Google Search results. You tin specify nosnippet, the number of text characters as well as the length of video previews.

Probably non coincidentally, the novel European Copyright Directive goes into number inwards French Republic inwards belatedly October. To comply amongst the novel law, Google volition non exhibit preview content inwards French Republic from European intelligence publications unless they quest they desire Google to exhibit those details. The new snippet settings tin live on used to create that. For intelligence publications don’t desire a preview snippet displayed inwards the Google Search or Google News results, Google volition entirely display the headline. European publishers were hoping Google would pay them licensing fees to display their content, but Google argues that they are providing a create goodness by making their articles findable at no cost.

There’s a new Google Search News video series on the official Google Webmasters video channel.

Web developers tin now #AskChrome to larn their questions answered on the Chrome Developers YouTube channel.

If you lot are a G Suite user amongst Hangouts Chat, check out the updated Chat mobile app for Android as well as iOS. There are straightaway split tabs for “People” as well as “Rooms” making it easier to uncovering the correct conversation.

YouTube Music App volition straightaway come upwards pre-installed on Android 10 devices.

With Chrome 77, Google Assistant is straightaway available on to a greater extent than Chromebooks.

Google Assistant has too come upwards to Xbox. It’s available inwards beta inwards English, as well as only takes a few steps to laid up. You tin role Assistant to plough on as well as off your console, launch games as well as play as well as suspension videos.

Dark subject is rolling out to the Gmail app for Android as well as iOS.

Read on for to a greater extent than news, updates as well as tips for Android  users,YouTubers, trace organization owners, advertisers as well as more.

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Upcoming

• September 27-29: Filter your YouTube comments past times sub status, questions as well as morecomments (YouTube)
• YouTube Music App straightaway preinstalled on Android 10 devices (YouTube)
• Never immature lady your favourite creative soul on tour i time again - encounter tickets for alive shows correct on YouTube! (Google Canada)
• Susan Wojcicki’s Appeal of Conscience Foundation Remarks (YouTube)
• Get More Views amongst Cards & End Screens ft. Logical Baniya (YouTube Creators)
• Photos from YouTube NextUp #YouTubeBlack at YouTube Space LA (YouTube)
• YouTube EduCon 2019 (YouTube India)
• Growing, supporting, as well as empowering YouTube’s growing Blue Planet forces of omen creators; bringing APAC’s showtime e'er #WomenToWatch workshop to India (Google India)
• Culture, Content as well as Creators Take Centre Stage at YouTube Festival (Google Australia)
• Google Bulletin volition close downwards inwards 2 weeks
• Fresher information inwards your site’s Search Performance report (Google Webmasters)
• More options to aid websites preview their content on Google Search (Webmaster Central)
• Nouvelles règles de droit d’auteur en French Republic : notre mise en conformité avec la loi. (Google France)
• How Google invests inwards news (Google)
• Server Migration as well as SEO #AskGoogleWebmasters (Google Webmasters)
• English Google Webmaster Central office-hours from September 27, 2019 (Google Webmasters)

AdSense as well as Advertising

• AdSense straightaway understands Marathi (AdSense)
• Simpler ways to movement increase across the client journeying amongst video (Google Ads)

Hangouts, Meetings as well as Messaging

• Find people as well as rooms to a greater extent than easily on the Hangouts Chat mobile app (G Suite Updates)
• Dark subject is coming to Gmail for Android as well as iOS (G Suite Updates)
• Whoops! Google Says Mysterious Wave of Unbootable Macs Is Their Bad (Gizmodo)
• #AskChrome - Answering your Web questions (Google Chrome Developers)
• Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS (Chrome 77) (Chrome Releases)
• 6 Chromebook keyboard shortcuts that salve time (Google)
• Canadian Federal Elections 019: Helping Canadians Make Informed Decisions (Google Canada)
• Google Says Google Translate Can’t Replace Human Translators. Immigration Officials Have Used It to Vet Refugees. (ProPublica)
• Score big as well as effort Google News for the Rugby World Cup (Google)
• Contributing Data to Deepfake Detection Research (Google AI blog)