(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
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
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
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
The never-ending chicken-and-egg issue of gaining ground in Google results is about to take another abrupt turn. According to Google’s Matt Cutts, the company is working on a new set of tweaks to the fabled “GoogleBot” that will penalize sites that over-optimize for prime Google results. Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz reports that Cutts let...Read More
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By JULIA ANGWIN The U.S. and European Union are investigating Google for its practice of bypassing the privacy settings of millions of users of Apple’s Safari Web browser, Julia Angwin reports on the News Hub. Photo: AFP/ Getty Images. Regulators in the U.S. and European Union are investigating Google Inc. for bypassing the privacy settings...Read More
Inside the massive data centers run by Equinix, the lights are on in some cages, but off in others. Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired.com Just how far will Google go to hide its custom-built data-center hardware from the rest of the world? In one Silicon Valley data center, the company is apparently so paranoid about competitors catching...Read More
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