Google is part of a strategic announcement by OpenText that the company will work with S3NS and Google Cloud to deliver a trusted cloud platform for European organisations, OpenText said in a release announced Monday April 13.
The partnership will provide a hybrid trusted cloud architecture out of France, designed to let organisations keep their most sensitive data workloads within a locally governed environment while using hyperscaler cloud services for non‑sensitive workloads, innovation, and scale, the announcement said.
Shannon Bell, Chief Digital Officer and Chief Information Officer at OpenText, said the firm has long built secure content solutions for highly regulated industries and regions, noting examples such as FedRAMP‑authorized, IRAP‑assessed, and Protected B‑aligned deployments. He added that making OpenText solutions available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud brings that expertise to a sovereign cloud purpose‑built for the European Union, and that together with AWS they are giving customers confidence to innovate at scale without compromising on control.
Product Updates And Developer Feedback
Google engineers and product teams were also the subject of two separate updates that affect web operators and publishers. On sitemaps, Google’s John Mueller responded to a user request about a new "still processing" status, saying he has discussed the idea with internal teams and acknowledged it can be annoying, but that he had no news or announcements to share, the exchange appeared on Blueshy.
The sitemap question came from Kyle Risley, who asked whether Google would add a status to indicate a crawled sitemap that is not yet fully processed, because the existing "couldn't fetch" label can mislead site operators into thinking an access issue exists. Forum discussion was noted at Bluesky.
Separately, Google told publishers that Google AdSense will run an experiment on an updated set of commonly used ad technology partners, with the company saying the experiment will start on or after April 20, 2026, and that if it proves beneficial the list will be updated on or after June 5, 2026. Google said the update will reflect partners that work most closely with publishers globally, determined by data collected from programmatic demand sources and by meeting Google’s privacy standards.
AdSense publishers were told they can view the current and experimental partner lists in Manage your ad technology partners, and find controls in Privacy & messaging on the European regulations settings page under "Your ad partners." Publishers may opt out of automatic updates by selecting "Do not automatically include commonly used ad partners," which creates a custom list prefilled with their current selections. Google also said that publishers using a third‑party CMP will have their ad tech partner list managed through their CMP provider.
