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Google, in antitrust crosshairs, touts new ‘helpful’ search products – CNBC
As it faces down the long barrel of antitrust enforcers and a revenue slowdown, Google is taking pains to show it still innovates in its original core business.
Users choose Google because it’s innovative and ‘helpful’ not because there’s no competition. At least, that’s the message company executives tried to show viewers in a live-streamed event about its search product Thursday.
The company announced a burst of small updates to its core search product, including the ability to detect songs from humming and new tools to help students with homework.
Google’s head of search Prabhakar Raghavan opened the pre-recorded public event with a 15-minute monol…
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