The SLC is a member of the Presidential Commission for AdSense Alternatives and an advisor to the House Subcommittee on Transparency. All you have to do is get a bunch of high-powered people to point to the light bulb and Google will take care of...
In a nutshell, consumer activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader and the Federal Trade Commission decided search engines should be unbiased information providers. Since most people can’t tell the difference or don’t care as long as the...
Commission I don't care if Google or Yahoo might position contextual ads as part of search. We could use a quality search service and have it remember/recall what we'd found before. Nevertheless, I did some of this for my keynote in our recent SES...
Vivisimo also offers search/cluster of the 9/11 Commission Report and the CIA WMD Report. Our forum thread SEO Thoughts on Google has a good discussion on this, including a long post from me if you care to read more about why I think it's the...
Mamma's stock has been hot -- so hot that the US Security and Exchange Commission has started an informal inquiry into its rise. And advertisers don't care who has the "leading" search technology. Search engine advertising provided that same...
The action came after more than 100 complaints filed with the attorney general's office, the US Federal Trade Commission and the Better Business Bureau. Why care? Certainly any company with vendor relationships will want to consider having those...
In the second part of this series on paid inclusion, I wrote that while Yahoo currently meets US Federal Trade Commission recommendations on disclosing paid inclusion, I wanted to see them go beyond this.
In the second part of this series on paid inclusion, I wrote that while Yahoo currently meets US Federal Trade Commission recommendations on disclosing paid inclusion, I wanted to see them go beyond this.
MSN announced a redesign for its MSN Search service last week, a cosmetic change that helps the service comply with US Federal Trade Commission recommendations about labeling paid placement results. LookSmart data does remain on the MSN Search home...
For example, an affiliate link to Nike through the popular Commission Junction program could look like this: http://www.cj.com? Instead, they are seeing a link Commission Junction. In other words, they don't really care who you link to.
If the search engines fail to do this voluntarily, I think it's likely we'll see a third party such as the US Federal Trade Commission suggest it happen. Unlike Perkins, I don't care how the cloaking is done technically.
The US Federal Trade Commission has made a landmark recommendation to the search engine industry that it should improve disclosure of paid content within search results. The commission adopts a slightly broader definition, in its response to...
A complaint has been filed with the US Federal Trade Commission involving the alleged theft of web pages from high profile sites such as Disney, CNET and the Discovery Channel. Why care? This paper from Compaq Systems Research, Google and AltaVista...
In September, the US Federal Trade Commission made a landmark move in establishing some jurisdiction over search engine results. Those contemplating this type of behavior can no longer assume they'll get away with it because the search engines are...
In September, the US Federal Trade Commission made a landmark move in establishing some jurisdiction over search engine results. Those contemplating this type of behavior can no longer assume they'll get away with it because the search engines are...
In September, the US Federal Trade Commission made a landmark move in establishing some jurisdiction over search engine results. Those contemplating this type of behavior can no longer assume they'll get away with it because the search engines are...
