As Google continues to navigate its relationship with publishers, regulators, and news readers, the company is starting a pretty drastic test: it will remove news articles from European Union-based publishers from Search.

The test aims to provide regulators and publishers with further data on how Google is used to access news content. View on euronews

Google is conducting a “test” that will omit results from EU-based news publishers. The company says the time-limited trial will only affect a small portion of users in nine EU countries and will help “assess how results from EU news publishers impact the search experience for our users and traffic to publishers.

Android Authority reveals that in December 2023, Google began to save your location history to the device instead of the cloud. But the emails suggest that that’s going away soon. Some emails mention a November 19 deadline for the new changes, while others say December 1. Given this ambiguity, it is best to act as soon as possible.

Google’s location-tracking Timeline feature will soon only record the most recent three months of your location history, with prior history wiped unless instructed otherwise.