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January 24, 2026

Google's Liz Reid: User Data Key to Search Quality

Google is contesting a court order to share proprietary data, arguing its internal ranking signals and user data are invaluable trade secrets central to its search quality and business. The company asserts that revealing details like its spam scores or indexed URL list would allow competitors to ...

Google Reveals Search Engine Vulnerabilities

A senior Google executive warns that court-ordered sharing of its core search technology, like its index and ranking data, would cause immediate harm by enabling reverse engineering, crippling spam defenses, and compromising user privacy. The mandated sharing of sensitive data, including spam sco...

Google Search Outage Affecting Some Regions

Google has confirmed a disruption in its search results service due to a data center problem, affecting users in specific geographic areas and preventing some pages from loading correctly. The company is actively investigating the root cause of this serving issue, which interferes with displaying...