Something I have long warned about appears to be happening. The Mercury News reports:Bush Lawyers Ask Judge To Make Google Hand Over Data; Google Promises A Fight The Bush administration on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google Inc.…
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The New York Times has an editorial today on the issue that companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft help the Chinese government not only filter out search results that they want to censor, but also help track down the individuals…
Dan Solove points to this Salon article that reveals how Google, Yahoo and Microsoft help the Chinese government not only filter out search results that they want to censor, but also help track down the individuals engaging in criticism and…
Read More Should Search Engines Help China Filter & Track Searches?
Advertising Age is reporting[registration req'd] on a recent industry panel disucssion on the privacy concerns with personalized search and targeted advertising. As Yahoo and Microsoft roll out more sophisticated search-advertising services relying on heavier use of personal data, they are…
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The Yale Information Society Project is hosting a symposium on "Regulating Search: A Symposium on Search Engines, Law, and Public Policy": Search is big business, and search functionality increasingly shapes the information society. Yet how the law treats search is…
Bill Gates gave an interview to CNET about a variety of topics including web search and Google. An interesting passage is Gates' perspective on Google's mission to "organize the world's information" and whether that should be the goal vs. his…
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More blurring of search engine results and advertising: A paper presented at the Sixth ACM Conference on E-commerce by Penn State School of Information Sciences and Technology professor Jim Jansen indicates that consumers exhibit a substantial measure of bias against…
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The blurring of search engine results and advertising is a major concern given how search engines have become the "center of gravity" for the distribution of information and the acquisition of knowledge. ClickZ reports on a Consumer Reports WebWatch study…
Philipp Lenssen uncovers Shmoogle, "the first non-deterministic search engine" that presents Google results in random order. From its creator, Tsila Hassine:What is Shmoogle? Shmoogle is a Google randomiser. When you type your query into Shmoogle, you get Google's results but....…
John Battelle points to a piece (reg required) by Max Kalehoff noting the striking increase in traffic driven to Wikipedia from search engine queries.A ranking of all Web sites based on the total volume of traffic received directly from search…
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