(click image for larger view and for slideshow) Google must make its autocomplete suggestions less complete: Japan’s Tokyo District Court has affirmed a petition seeking the suspension of specific, allegedly defamatory terms that the company had been providing in response to certain search queries. The petition came from a man who claims that Google’s predictive...Read More
I’m sure that most of you know or have heard of Matt Cutts at Google. For those who don’t, Cutts is the head of the web Spam team at Google. That is to say, Cutts works diligently to ensure that Google’s search results are “good†and he polices efforts by folks who try to (overtly)...Read More
Computerworld – Google this month released Chrome from the penalty box and reinstated the browser’s PageRank after a 60-day self-imposed sentence over a rule-breaking marketing campaign. At some point during March, Google lifted the penalty it had imposed on Chrome the first week of January, when it demoted the search ranking of the browser’s download...Read More
Google aims to spur demand for its Wallet app, which is designed to boost its share of the multibillion-dollar market for mobile advertising by letting it target shoppers with coupons and promotions. The challenge: Few phones have the right technology installed, and rivals are readying their own systems, including one called ISIS that’s backed by...Read More
Malware-flingers are taking advantage of vulnerable WordPress sites as part of an attack ultimately designed to spread an information-stealing botnet agent. Cybercrooks begin the attack by planting malicious scripts on vulnerable sites. Prospective marks are then lured to compromised sites via spammed messages that purport to come from known legitimate sources including Better Business Bureau...Read More
IDG News Service – Oracle and Google will hold another round of settlement talks as the trial date nears in their high-stakes court battle over Google’s alleged misuse of Java in Android. A magistrate judge assigned to the case has ordered senior executives from both sides to be present at the talks. The participants must...Read More
He walked down the quiet street, a leopard in the concrete jungle. Eyes down, but watching the angles. Hands in his coat pocket concealing but preoccupied. It was then from the shadows a figure emerged, unwanted but unrelenting. “Hey buddy, you lookin’?”, poured forth with a cloud of smoke. “Naw, I don’t do that crap.”...Read More
Small business owners who have just begun their SEO campaign will find that there is no end to the depth and complexity inherent in search engine optimization. Many companies try to take a do-it-yourself mentality to SEO implementation that ends with them sloppily stringing together popular search terms or stuffing keywords on contextually irrelevant web...Read More
Digg founder Kevin Rose (right) has joined Google to work on its social products. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — One of Silicon Valley’s iconic entrepreneurs is going corporate. Google has scooped up Digg founder Kevin Rose and a number of his employees at Milk, the venture he created last year as a lab for experimenting with...Read More
Google Inc. (GOOG), the world’s largest Web-search provider, was questioned by France’s data protection authority to determine whether policies for mobile devices running its Android operating system and information collected using “cookies†violate European privacy rules. The National Commission for Computing and Civil Liberties, known by its French acronym as CNIL, asked Google to reply...Read More
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