Microsoft Advertising blocks 1.6 billion ads while dealing with the pandemic, says annual ad quality review

Microsoft says it is committed to keeping the ads in Microsoft Bing fair and in compliance with its ad policies.

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Microsoft blocks Google Chrome & other browsers from Cortana in latest Windows 10 release

Sorry, Google. You, Firefox, Opera and anyone else with a web browser that competes with Microsoft’s Edge will no longer be able to work within Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant in Windows 10. Microsoft buried the news today in a blog post about Cortana’s personalization of…

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Russian Search Engine Yandex Now 100% “Not Provided,” Blocks Referrer Data

Yandex announced (in Russian) today that they have now went 100% secure, encrypting all search queries, resulting in a huge jump in the [not provided] count. This was first reported by Anna Oshkalo who shared a screen shot of her analytics detailed the bulk of her Yandex keyword data now shows [not…

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Google Yanks Fake FBI Listing From Google Maps, Puts New Blocks In Place To Stop Further Abuse

In response to a string of cases where fake business/organization listings have been added to Google Maps, Google says it has removed those listings and put in place new hurdles to make it more difficult for this kind of abuse to get through its system. This latest run of problems came to light…

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