Facebook search for a way to reduce the impact of fake news in that case, when they are already spread among users. About it told the Vice-President Adam Mosseri during the thematic debate that was held at the University of California, Berkeley.
The former head of the team of Google search Amit Singhal appointed as senior Vice President of engineering at Uber. He will be responsible for the operation of the units of the Map and Marketplace.
DuckDuckGo has processed over 10 billion searches and 4 billion just for the year 2016. This was stated in the blog of the search engine.
YouTube has announced that advertisers will now be able to use these Google accounts for target. Representatives of the service also reported that more than 50% of video views takes place on mobile devices.
In the fourth quarter of 2016, global clickthrough rate on Facebook increased by 42% in the annual comparison. About this state Nanigans in date report.
January 20 2017, Google began sending notifications to sites via Search Console in which webmasters are required in the shortest possible time to transfer pages on secure protocol, otherwise they will be marked in the Chrome browser (version 56 or later) as unsafe.
Facebook has paid Russian programmer Andrey Leonov, a record fee for hacking – $40 thousand, state Fortune.
Facebook will build new data center in the Odense city of Danish. Center will become the third data center of the company outside the United States. Two other centres were opened in Sweden and Ireland.
Pinterest continues to improve their product advertising. The latest innovation in this field was adding groups in the ad campaigns.
Google buys millions of ads in AdWords and shows their products in the top SERP for 91% of relevant keywords in the United States. About this is according to the research conducted by The Wall Street Journal.
Social network for professionals LinkedIn has launched a new website design. This step was designed to bring the desktop version of the service in accordance with mobile. The company also hope to encourage users to spend more time on the platform.
Team social network OKru announced that will not impose a fee for sending the GIF images. Users will be able to send them messages for free and those who bought access to sending GIF in the test period spent in local currency will be returned.
Developer and former head of the team for anti-spam Google's Matt Cutts announced on his retirement from the company. According to the documents, his last working day was 31 December 2016.
Facebook has integrated the web version of Messenger in the desktop version of the social network. Now in place of the Inbox the icon of the Messenger.
Yandex.Direct team announced that next week the ad groups with very low traffic automatically switches to a new status of "Little impressions." Groups with this status are suspended and not participate in the auction on the search networks.
Google tests showing product ads in the local SERP on mobile devices.
Facebook-page of the founder and head of the social network Mark Zuckerberg is not run by one person, but a whole team. This writes Bloomberg referring to their sources.
Facebook has no plans to renew contracts with the media and celebrities to promote the service live broadcasts. It is reported by The New York Magazine.
Massive online action cybermonday, which will take place on the website c-monday.com on 30 January, for the first time in the history will begin with social networks. Users OKru will have exclusive access to the presale, starting 5 hours before the official start of the campaign.
In the spring of 2017 Facebook opens in Paris its first startup incubator Startup Garage. It will be located on the campus Station F. this said COO Sheryl Sandberg.