Google will fund the project with three advocacy groups. Google has donated $3 million to three firms that are using big data to aide in the fight against human trafficking. The search giant announced the launch of the Google Global Human...
While its being reported that the FTC doesn't have enough evidence to penalize Google, some advocacy groups insist consumers are being harmed. Ben Hammer, a spokesperson with industry advocacy group FairSearch.org, said the FTC need only to look at...
Google has slammed an upcoming meeting of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), set for Dec.in Dubai, which the company says will give governments the chance to set new regulations without input from citizens and user advocacy groups.
Concern over these cards spurred the creation of advocacy group Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering (C.A.S.P.I.A.N.which argues that grocery stores falsely inflate prices for those not participating in the programs and...
Last week at their C3 event, Conductor awarded a grant to advocacy and service organization Housing Works and announced the addition of universal search optimization to the Searchlight platform. Their work as an advocacy, service and...
Targeting the National Transgender Advocacy Coalition for a Transgender charity is like selling tennis rackets to people who list playing tennis as an Interest in Facebook. Related Groups Next, focus on groups with related sentiment that aren't...
While privacy advocacy groups support the move, seems Google and others are against it. The US Congress is discussing the possibility of instituting a registry for people who do not want websites to track them, the Washington Post reported.
And we better be aware of them if consumer advocacy groups are claiming they "want to see new rules, rather than rely on voluntary compliance with trade groups". If this occurs then search is on the horizon of these groups.
Advocacy groups are up-in-arms over a new e-mail obstacle congressional offices have enabled. Consider this: Last year, I wrote a piece for Personal Democracy Forum (I was associate editor there at the time) about the efforts by advocacy groups on...
A lot of the panelists were discussing ways political candidates or advocacy groups can use video blogging (either campaign-produced, or volunteer/supporter-produced) to engage voters online. In the same way that commercial marketers are struggling...
Close on the heels of MoveOn.org's petition earlier this week, The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), together with media policy group Free Press, will announce on Tuesday a coalition of advocacy groups is uniting to oppose what's been dubbed...
The article takes a look at how the Republican and Democratic National Committees and several issue advocacy groups are using search engine marketing. Political Campaigns And Issue Groups Take Search Baby Steps
It also raises the important issue that advocacy groups and others are denied having a voice in ads. I've reported many times before about various groups that have found their ads pulled from Google because they violated some type of Google policy.
Public Library of Science Open Letter http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ The advocacy group that believes the permanent, archival record of scientific research and ideas should neither be owned nor controlled by publishers, but should belong...
