Latest Criticism of Google Stories
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In advance of today's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the proposed Google Book Settlement, the Open Book Alliance released a list of seven issues related to the settlement that it believes are misunderstood and worthy of further discussion. "There's been a lot of questions about the nature of this settlement, and, unfortunately, there remains some inaccurate information out there," said Peter Brantley, director, Internet Archive and...
DETROIT, Feb. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Epitec Group announced today that it is a full service partner in the Google Enterprise Partner program which extends the power of the Google technologies to other organizations and helps customers get more value out of Google search capabilities. As a reseller of the Google Search Appliance, The Epitec Group will now provide purchasing, customization and integration services for the Google enterprise search technologies to corporations, government...
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Internet giant Google must match new privacy measures announced by search rival Yahoo!, Consumer Watchdog said today, and called on both companies to enact stronger protections to truly guarantee users' privacy. The nonprofit, nonpartisan consumer group warned the public that even with shorter data retention times, identifiable personal data remains on the search companies' servers because each point of contact renews the data...
By Kevin J. O'Brien For more than a year, European data privacy officials have been battling with U.S.-based Internet search engines, trying to get them to conform to European restrictions on the storage of personal information gleaned from the Web. Now, as the U.S. titans Google, Microsoft and Yahoo continue to retain personal data beyond the six-month time limit established this year by the European Commission, regulators say their patience is running thin. "For the moment, Google...
By Joe Nocera A few days ago, a lawyer representing an entrepreneur called Dan Savage sent the U.S. Department of Justice a nine-page, 4,000-word letter. Savage, 59, runs Sourcetool.com, a business-to-business Web site that acts as a directory, listing - and ranking - hundreds of thousands of companies that sell industrial products. Like many Internet entrepreneurs, Savage, who started his company in 2005, built his business model around Google. Using Google's AdWords program, he proposed...
In writing this editorial, we added a half-dozen Google searches to the 65 million that are made on the Internet search engine each hour around the world. We could have clicked on ads that brought Google nearly $20 billion during the last four quarters. Tallying all those clicks, which advertisers pay for, amounts to some $2.2 million an hour and adds to Google's $142 billion market value (compared with Microsoft's $241 billion market value). We mention Microsoft because Google has become...
In response to continued pressure from the EU over its privacy policy, Google will halve the amount of time it stores users' personal search data.Google said it would make identifiable IP addresses anonymous on its server logs after nine months.Respecting users' privacy is "fundamental to earning and keeping their trust," Google said.An EU advisory body in April recommended search engines should delete personal data within six months.Information from each search query is collected and stored,...
By Michael Liedtke The Associated Press MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - When Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. on Sept. 7, 1998, they had little more than their ingenuity, four computers and an investor's $100,000 bet on their belief that an Internet search engine could change the world. It sounded preposterous 10 years ago, but look now: Google draws upon a gargantuan computer network, nearly 20,000 employees and a $150 billion market value to redefine media, marketing and...
By Emily Dugan Google once reviled computer superpowers but domination is just what it is achieving - and goodwill is evaporating, finds Emily Dugan There are not many companies whose trade names have become verbs. And there must be even fewer who would view this as a cause for concern. But when Google entered the dictionary in 2006, the directors seemed furious. Instead of celebrating their status as the ultimate household name, they were found muttering darkly about "brand dilution" and...
By Swartz, Nikki A European advisory body has determined that there is no reason for search engines to retain search information for longer than six months. The Artide 29 Working Party, whose recommendations are usually adopted by the European Commission, directed in its recently released report that search engines should retain any personal information they collect about their online users no longer than is necessary for the specific purposes of processing and not more than six months in...
