The November numbers mark new records for both Google and Bing and reflect explicit core search volume. Yahoo dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 12.1 percent, while Ask.com and AOL.com also saw slight drops – to 3 percent (down from 3.2...
Optify looked at organic CTR in the hopes of updating one of the SEO industry's long-time ROI calculators based on AOL's leaked searchrecords from August 2006, which Optify calls "old and dated," due to the evolution of universal search and...
Cyber Monday Sets Online Spending Records by Frank Watson Just as it topped AOL's news search category, the Gulf disaster dominated online searches on Yahoo. AOL's Hottest Searches of 2010: Bedbugs, Tiger Woods, BP by Danny Goodwin
Google is huge, and it continues to shatter records. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, sued 11 corporations, including Google/YouTube, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, and AOL, claiming they built their businesses off of technology he owns the patents on.
Records have been set for five consecutive years, according to data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Miller is under a non-compete agreement with AOL, but that expires within days.
Getting access to the e-mail records was easy for the FBI. Hosey wrote, "On or about January 25, 2008, I obtained login records for the Emperors Club E-Mail Account. These records reflect that, between December 10, 2007, and January 24, 2008, the...
SearchRecords Requests under Patriot Act Ruled UnconstitutionalControversial elements of the Patriot Act were ruled unconstitutional by a federal district court judge. AOL announces changes to NetscapeNetscape.com is going back to offering a more...
SearchRecords Requests under Patriot Act Ruled UnconstitutionalControversial elements of the Patriot Act were ruled unconstitutional by a federal district court judge. AOL announces changes to NetscapeNetscape.com is going back to offering a more...
The report didn't center on Google, but called out several players for their records on privacy: Sullivan criticizes the lack of firsthand information used in the report, and points to several examples where Google seems to have been judged more...
One of the 1,262 teachers in grades 5 through 12 who were surveyed in the fall of 2006 was quoted as saying, "Students do not relate to newspapers at all, any more than they would to vinyl records. The "Big Four" include two news search engines...
WhitePages.com Expands People SearchExpanding further from its phone directory roots, WhitePages.com has added third-party results from Web search, public records, and professional profiles, and a fledgling e-mail search product.
WhitePages.com Expands People SearchExpanding further from its phone directory roots, WhitePages.com has added third-party results from Web search, public records, and professional profiles, and a fledgling e-mail search product.
Google Reader seeks to block search history storage that a class action lawsuit has been filed against AOL seeking $1,000 in damages for each person whose searchrecords were released last month. Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog...
TechCrunch reports in Suit filed against AOL; seeks to block search history
storage that a class action lawsuit has been filed against AOL seeking $1,000
in damages for each person whose searchrecords were released last month.
Suit filed against AOL; seeks to block search history storage that a class
action lawsuit has been filed against AOL seeking $1,000 in damages for each
person whose searchrecords were
released last
month.
AOL Fires CTO & Two Employees After SearchRecords Slip Up Now, it just seems redundant, as browsers will do it for free.The hot topic of the week—and since—has been AOL's inadvertent leak of a large volume of search query data.
The Wall Street Journal just reported that AOL has fired the Chief Technology Officer, Maureen Govern, and two other employees after releasing searchrecords last week. To be fair, the searchrecords did have personal ids removed.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has asked the US Federal Trade Commission
to investigate AOL's release of searchrecords last week and prevent the
company from storing search data for longer than two weeks.
Today's search podcast covers AOL's release of searchrecords and the ensuing
privacy crisis that followed; Google's support for site owners enlarging into AOL The Yahoo Search Blog defines which queries will be redirected from Yahoo Search
to...
AOL's release of
searchrecords last week and prevent the company from storing search data
for longer than two weeks. It's well
worth a read, if only to read that the US Department Of Justice is apparently
arguing that access to searchrecords...