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
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
Google may still be raking in the profits, but the mojo behind Gmail, Chrome, News, Translate, and Docs has started to fade in the face of stiffer competition. Is Google+ an asset or a distraction? (Credit: Screenshot by Ben Parr/CNET) Google’s empire is under direct assault from Facebook. Its big weapons — Search, AdWords, and...Read More
Google Music no longer exists as a standalone service. Google TV was an embarrassment. YouTube may lose music videos next year. Sources say not everybody at YouTube and Android is pulling in the same direction. Google can’t seem to get the hang of selling music and movies over the Internet–a goal that has similarly befuddled...Read More
A limitation built recently into Google Chrome to detect and block Flash Player exploits ended up breaking certain Flash-based applications and games for some users. Suspecting that someone would try to hack Chrome via a Flash exploit at this year’s Pwn2Own contest, the browser’s developers decided to restrict the maximum allowed size of Flash JIT...Read More
With its “Don’t Be Evil” motto, Google (GOOG) has always held itself to a higher moral standard. Now Google observers, including many longtime admirers of the search giant, say the Mountain View company is behaving more like something it vowed never to become: a conventional company where the bottom line drives decisions. The signs of...Read More
Austin, Texas (CNN) — After concerns over a revamped Google privacy policy surfaced last month, some questioned whether the Web giant is still living up to its longstanding motto: “Don’t be evil.” Absolutely, says Vic Gundotra, the man behind social network Google+. The company has to. “If we do things that are evil, with one...Read More
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