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“Google Sets Sights on Eliminating SEO-Driven Spam and Junk Pages with Latest Search Modification”

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Google today took aim at the SEO industry which has gamified search rankings to destroy the value of Google Search results. That’s about to change with the company’s latest search update, the comapny said. On Tuesday, Google announced a search quality update that will specifically focus on improving the search quality ranking of websites and will update Google Search’s spam policies. Google estimates that through this update and its prior efforts, it will be able to reduce low-quality and unoriginal content by 40%. If Google could address these problems with its search quality update, it could have a significant impact on how consumers perceive the usefulness of Google Search, which many people have become increasingly concerned about in the wake of AI advances.

“Limiting Teen Screen Time: Instagram’s Latest Feature Promotes Rest with ‘Nighttime Nudges'”

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Instagram is introducing new nighttime nudges for teen accounts to limit their time on the app, the company announced on Thursday. The new nighttime nudges will appear when teens have spent more than 10 minutes on Instagram in places like Reels or DMs late at night. The notice will remind teens that it’s late and encourage them to close the app and go to sleep. The nighttime nudges will be shown automatically and can’t be turned off, which means teens can’t opt in or out of seeing them. The new nighttime nudges join Instagram’s other features aimed at reducing teens’ time on its app.

EU Advertisements Targeting Sensitive Data Draw Privacy Complaint Against Musk’s X

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Elon Musk’s X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, is facing a new privacy complaint in Europe related to its ad targeting tools. The complaint, which is being lodged with the Dutch data protection authority by privacy rights not-for-profit noyb, accuses X of failing to enforce its own its advertising guidelines. “After we filed our first complaint in this matter, the EU Commission has already confirmed to stop advertising on X. “In November, this unlawful use of micro-targeting already prompted noyb to file a complaint against the EU Commission itself. “It remains to be seen if the Commission may take action against X itself under the DSA,” noyb further added.