Wired News reports that Reporters Without Borders has labeled Yahoo the "strictest" censor in China: Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said their tests showed that Yahoo.cn blocked a higher percentage of politically sensitive results than Google.cn or the beta version of…
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Google Joins NSA’s Other Northwest Neighbors
The NY Times reports that Google has built a "computing center as big as two football fields, with twin cooling plants protruding four stories into the sky" on the Oregon-Washington border. Yahoo and Microsoft both have large processing centers about…
Google Wants To Listen In
TechCrunch, among others, is reacting to this post at Google's research blog on a paper [PDF] about "Real-Time Ambient-Audio Identification." The proposed technology would enable your computer to listen to the ambient sounds emitted from your TV, automatically determine what…
Google Earth Deafults Google as IE Search Engine
Remember how Google got upset that Microsoft was going to make MSN Search the default search engine in IE7? Now it seems Google is fighting back. When installing the latest beta version of Google Earth on a Windows machine, you…
Brin says Google compromised principles in China
First, Google starts to censor results in China, making a mockery of its core values. Then they try to explain it doesn't really matter, since no one is using the censored version of their website. But now that they've cowed…
Google to Make Ads look More like Organic Results
Looks like Google is again taking steps to blur the visual distinction between paid and organic search results. A reader at Google Blogoscoped posted an e-mail recently received from Google about his/her AdSense account: We're writing to let you know…
Is Google.cn Still Evil if No One Uses It?
The answer is yes. In yesterday's stockholder meeting, Sergey Brin noted that Chinese users haven't yet flocked to the censored Google.cn service, noting that usage of Google.cn is just a fraction of one percent of Google searches in China, while…
Page & Brin on (Not) Being Evil
InternetNews has a warm & fuzzy recount of a press event with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin where they provide a lot of doublespeak in response to growing concerns that recent actions by Google violate their "Don't be…
Lauren Weinstein: Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative
Lauren Weinstein, co-founder of People For Internet Responsibility, has written an open letter to Google outlining "Concepts for a Google Privacy Initiative." Highlights include: Increasingly, Internet users are becoming highly sensitized to both perceived and real risks to their privacy…
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Google to Rank Results Based on Domain Name Information?
Search Engine Watch speculates that Google might start using WHOIS information in their ranking of web pages. A recent patent application filed by Google, Information retrieval based on historical data, hints at the possible use of domain information in the…
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