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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, February 28th. I'm Charlotte Gartenberg for the Wall Street Journal.

Google has changed its rules around how product review sites appear in its search engine, and it's

hitting a once lucrative corner of news media pretty hard. WSJ reporter Alexandra Bruel tells us

what the change could mean for consumers.

Then, why was Elon Musk brandishing a chainsaw on stage at last week's CPAC conference?

And how did his meeting with President Trump's cabinet go?

We'll hear from WSJ columnist Tim Higgins as we track Musk's first hundred days in the Trump White House.

But first, have you ever Googled Best Boots for Rain? Or, which computer should I buy to

edit my own podcast? If you have, then you've probably seen more than a few websites with

product review lists. But Google's recent rule

changes have had a profound impact on sites like CNN underscored, Forbes vetted, and

byside from WSJ, which is operated by Wall Street Journal parent Dow Jones. Here to fill us in

is WSJ reporter Alexandra Bruel. Alexandra, when we say Google changed the rules, what exactly did Google do here?

Last year, Google launched this site reputation abuse policy, essentially prohibiting certain

content created by what they call a separate entity from appearing in its search pages. They then later

updated this policy to say that they will eliminate this content from the search engine,

even if there's oversight from the host site or the publisher themselves. So if a publisher,

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