Cnet asked each of the major search engine providers about data retention, IP tracking and other user search privacy issues. (I will fully process this later when I have more time) [via John Battelle, and see his similar (and earlier)…
Tag: Yahoo
NYT: Increasingly, Internet’s Data Trail Leads to Court
The New York Times has an article today about the privacy of one's online intellectual activities and the increasing tendancy of ISPs and other online service providers to share that information with law enforcement (hopefully only when presented with a…
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Yahoo’s Site Explorer
Yahoo has released Site Explorer, an online tool that lets you see all the pages that Yahoo has indexed on a particular site and all of its inbound links. This is the first time any search engine has offered this…
Social Bookmarking in Yahoo’s MyWeb 2.0
Yahoo launched a beta version of MyWeb 2.0 which integrates personalized searching with tagging and social bookmarking. From SearchEngineWatch:With the release of MyWeb 2.0, Yahoo has added an extensive array of new features focused on community-based searching and sharing of…
Yahoo! Mindset: Intent Driven Search
Yahoo! Research Labs released a beta version of a new search tool called Yahoo! Mindset allowing users to filter results on an axis of "shopping" (i.e., commercial) vs "researching" (i.e., non-commercial) sources. From their site: Find the results you like.Sort…
Yahoo Turns Over E-Mail Account Of Marine Killed In Iraq
Yahoo has reached a settlement with the family of a deceased Marine over access to the data in his Yahoo! accounts. I originally blogged this story here, and a related post on the ethical issues that confront companies like Yahoo…
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Yahoo to preserve e-mail of Marine killed in Iraq
One example of the type of ethical issues that cross Srinija Srinivasan's desk at Yahoo! is whether family members should have access to the e-mail of a deceased relative. From Yahoo's perspective, to release messages from a deceased user's e-mail…
Srinija Srinivasan: Perception and Policy at Yahoo!
Srinija Srinivasan, Yahoo's editor-in-chief, presented at the latest Colloquium on Information Technology & Society hosted by the Information Law Institute at the New York University School of Law. Her talk was "Perception and Policy at Yahoo!" and discussed her role…
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