In Brief: Google Lets You Go Incognito
New privacy features include an incognito guest mode and easy access preferences.
New privacy features include an incognito guest mode and easy access preferences.
Publicis Sapient’s survey of 5,000 people from Great Britain, France, Germany, Australia and the United States revealed that 61% know little or nothing about how companies use their data – and they worry this can be harmful. The survey also found a disparity between those who are more educated, younger and tech savvy, in their degree of mistrust. Results indicated significant uncertainty and dissatisfaction with companies in multiple categories.
COVID-19 has had a mixed impact on B2B purchases, delaying some and accelerating others, according to this DemandGen Report study for Demandbase. Functionality (73%) and pricing (72%) nearly tied for the top vendor selection criteria, with ease of use (56%) further down the list. Integration wasn’t an option on the questionnaire although some respondents wrote it in.
Microsoft has confirmed that Reddit has blocked its Bing search engine from crawling content; Reddit seems to have blocked DuckDuckGo too. Reddit content will still appear in Google search results, but then Google has paid Reddit $60 million to allow it to train its AI models on that content. Reddit says the block has nothing to do with the Google deal: okay.