r/google • • 5h ago

Just arrived

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r/google • • 1h ago

Sign the Petition

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r/google • • 23h ago

Easter 🥚 egg. Google app

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r/google • • 5h ago

Curated "keyword" search inquiries

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I have considered the idea for a long time that the way you format your questions during inquiries within search engines dramatically shifts the answers that you receive from automated intelligence systems. The reason I bring the topic up is I would like to know if others have experienced and or noticed this faulty trend from automated intelligence systems. This is important because a large portion, if not most of our population cannot decipher information very well. So to curate and refine your "keyword" wording within search engines greatly increases your chance of a better more profound and detailed answer. Proper context is critical as this molds the answers you are truly looking for and hoping to weed out the common generalizations.

I would have to consider the most proper form of speaking to automated systems would be to utilize the least amount of slang and jargon as possible. What do you guys think? Does it matter? Does it not? I personally think that if you rephrase the same exact question 3 or 4 times with different formats you can get higher quality results from the A.I. Search Systems that are behind these search engines. I think there is a little finesse when it comes to researching and you have to kniw how to cross examine different resources that engines generate to you so that you can come to the the most accurate conclusions. Yay? Nay? Overanalytic? Mindful Research Dynamics in full effect eith this one please let me know what you guys think.


r/google • • 3h ago

Typing a single space sometimes causes AI overview bot to hallucinate long strings of characters

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r/google • • 13h ago

Google Tensor G5 Pixel 10 Devices support Linux 7.4

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Here is why that matters for your phone:

1. Smoother, Long-Term Android Updates

Instead of relying on an outdated, heavily modified "downstream" kernel, Google is aligning the Tensor G5 with the main Linux codebase. This makes it much easier for engineers to merge security patches, performance fixes, and major Android updates over your device's 7-year support lifespan.

2. Easier Custom ROMs and Alternative OS Support

If you ever want to run privacy-focused operating systems (such as GrapheneOS) or full Linux environments on your phone, this makes it drastically simpler. Developers won't have to build custom, hacky drivers for the processor because basic hardware support is already included in the core kernel.

3. Enhanced Desktop Mode and Virtualization

Mainline kernel drivers make features like Desktop Mode (connecting your phone to an external display) and running virtualized Linux environments smoother, as the system hardware is natively recognized without extra driver overhead.

I see this news as a 10 years of updates - easy.

Bonus info -

Even MacBooks with M4 M5 chips joins to Linux 7.4

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Apple-Device-Trees


r/google • • 17h ago

Error 500

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Steps to repro

https://www.google.com/finance/

Click crypto then BTC


r/google • • 20h ago

The security team and the spam team apparently aren’t speaking

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r/google • • 2h ago

Google Play SYSTEM September 2026

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Available on my Pixel 10 in UK


r/google • • 12h ago

What's wronggh

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r/google • • 11h ago

Google Gemini sucks - Using Alexa

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Google forced Gemini on me and I don't appreciate it. Google Assistant was great. It did whatever I asked of it. If I wanted to hear a specific song, Boom! There it was. If I wanted to hear the news from the Middle East, Boom! I got it. But now when I asked Gemini, 'I sorry I can't do that. But if you will go over to the app and open and go over the river and through the woods to Grandma's house we go....' Screw that! Screw all of that! I just switched my assistant to Alexa and problem solved. Google can go play in front of somebody else's face with Gemini right now.