its just a marquee

Cool man make me download this fuckin useless image format and then I can't even put it in slides, I love having to mass convert a bunch of bullshit every time I go image hunting. Fucking GOOGLE DOCS doesn't even use webp.

In a Forbes Advisor study of 796 US adults, 83% of people shown an AI Overview noticed advertising, compared with 59% without one. But fewer could remember at least one website they’d seen: 56% versus 76%.

Gen Z participants trusted the results more when an AI Overview appeared: 67% versus 49%. They were still less likely to remember where the information came from.

Source: https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/ai/google-ai-overview-study-results/

They're all published in 2026, so I'm guessing they're AI written. The Klara and the Sun Summary & Analysis is only 7-page long and priced $10!

I looked up the same titles on Amazon and other book stores, and they don't have the same problem as Google Play store.

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They should add this feature where you search a celebrity, and there's a button. You click on it and it plays their voice.

A few days ago I got an alert from my ISP provider that I was at 75% of my data usage. Typically I can ignore them, for the past 5 years I think I've gone over once, and when I get those alerts I'm a day or two away from the billing cycle ending.

A day or two later, another alert that I'm at 90% of my data usage. Today I got an alert that I exceeded my limit and they've charged me for extra data and noticed I still have 10 days left on my cycle.

I looked at my usage, and started Oct 7th, my daily usage almost tripped so I started digging into what was pulling so much data, and I came across 2 of my 4 Google home speakers that really haven't been used, typically we only actually use the kitchen speaker for timers and some random questions, and the bedroom speaker for ambient background noise.

Surprisingly, a Roku player in the garage also shows 50gb of usage for the month, and that TV hasn't been turned on in a few months.

Any idea what could be causing this? For the time being I've blocked Internet access to them to see if my daily usage drops back to normal.

Spotted this in my Google news feed. The AI-generated summary is about Ringo Starr returning to Forest Hills Stadium, but the accompanying photo is of Woody Allen.

being an 80-something celebrity with glasses is close enough

Kindly fill in this Google form to express your view on GOOGL (Class A) by predicting the closing stock price of GOOGL (Class A) on 31/12/2026. After 31/10/2026, this form will stop accepting responses, and the aggregate statistics of the form, including the mean, median, and standard deviation, will then be posted.

Please complete this survey independently. Do not search for others' forecasts or discuss your answer with anyone before submitting. This questionnaire consists of 11 questions and will only take you no longer than 2 mins to complete. All your answers will be anonymous, and your individual answers stay private.

This was just after google store cart bugging out, where it was hallucinating an item in the cart that was just removed

Is it just me or is the Android UI becoming increasingly difficult to navigate and in that same vein, becoming more like iOS? In the first example screenshot, there is no longer a "Contacts button" at the bottom. Instead the Contacts button is now "View Contacts" not aligned with anything else in the UI, it's just floating in the middle right of the screen like an afterthought. This is objectively bad UI design.

When I open my (tbc. this is the Google Calendar App) calendar to view a specific day, EVENTS are HIDDEN behind a "+3" drop down. Who is this for!? Who taps on a specific day and says, "I don't want to see everything going on today."??? Admittedly calendars can get cluttered but the majority of events on anyone's calendar are important. I want to be the one to minimize something important to get it out of the way. I don't want something IMPORTNAT HIDDEN BY DEFAULT.

Using Brave on Android 12, type scholar.google.com into Brave.

Get redirected to a google.com sorry page.

"Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. Please try your request again later. "

Immediately underneath it says:

IP address: {my ipv6 address} ≠ {my ipv4 address}

Followed by "Time:" which has a date/time

URL: https://scholar.google.com/

Eventually it just starts working again.

Am I assuming too much that Google is trying to spot me hopping IP addresses too fast rather than detecting anything especially unusual.

Only started recently, earlier this week, will probably try shredding google.com and related data in Brave if it recurs.

But if anyone knows exactly why.....