Most recently, the EU has questioned whether Googles's unified privacy policy is legal, and was sued by Foundem, which has been working with Microsoft and the FairSearch players, for anti-competitive conduct.
Even better, establish a “we will not be undersold” policy. The more words they add to the search, obviously the more refined the results will be, reducing competition to reach those customers. This behavior expands to business customers.percent of...
In addition, SEMPO has offered “valuable insight and background to the Consumer Protection Bureau, both on the topic of a search engine guideline compliance review, and in presenting considerations for the transparency policy development process...
By September 2011, Yelp was testifying against Googlein the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. Google acquired Frommer’s brand of travel guides from Wiley s standards, it is another big indicator Google plans...
Ensure you’re doing your utmost to convey trust by including a no-nonsense privacy policy, clear contact us page, hours of operation, physical address and map locations, service level agreements (how long will it take to receive a call or email back?
They also prohibit the promotion of counterfeit goods through their AdWords program, though this is defined within their policy as having “a trademark or logo that is identical to or substantially indistinguishable from the trademark of another.
I don't mention all of this to discuss business policy. When my agency launched, we targeted “search engine positioning services” out of the gate due to the low competition and faster potential for quick gains.
The agreement, which came about after pressure from the U.S.justice system and California's attorney general, Kamala Harris, will bring the mobile application market in line with California laws, and requires all applications that collect personal...
We have approved the acquisition of Motorola Mobility by Google because, upon careful examination, this transaction does not itself raise competition issues," said EC vice president in charge of competition policy Joaquin Almunia.
I believe we have a policy of no recruiting from Apple and this is a direct inbound request. Meanwhile Intel chief executive, Paul Otellini, referred to Intel's employment policy with Google as an "unofficial no poaching policy.
Google’s Bradley Horowitz posted an explanation of their “more inclusive” naming policy yesterday, successfully dancing around the heart of the matter: why. I don’t mean to beat a dead horse here, because I’ve written about this before, but it’s...
In a post published today on Google’s Public Policy Blog, Dennis Woodside, SVP, announced they’ve received a “second request” for more information in their review of the Motorola Mobility acquisition.
People should be watching the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights hearing on "The Power of Google: Serving Consumers or Threatening Competition? The UK Guardian thinks Schmidt will "argue the company offers a...
German website owners can use Analytics immediately, but must agree to Google’s updated terms, update their own privacy policy to include legally mandated statements about the use of Analytics, and enable the IP mask function on Analytics to...
As with any linking policy, you don’t want to spam the search engines with just a single keyword or key phrase as your anchor text, as that will do more harm than good. Competition for keywords and domain names is at an all-time high in the English...
Google denies that anything abnormal is happening, instead attributing any blocks from Google services such as AdSense to policy violation. Their complaint included the following request: "We ask the competition regulator to investigate Google as a...
Some merchants finally threw up their hands and declared a new policy- if you are not listed in inworld search, there will be no support coming to you (I didn't personally do this, but I know an awful lot of people who did, and frankly, I don't...
Consider creating ad landing page policy for channel partners that forbids offering contextual ads or suggestion alternative hotels. In the example below, taken from the report, we can see that the top ad position for a search of a hotel brand in...
In addition, two senators, Herb Kohl (D-Wis.and Mike Lee (R-Utah), on the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, have announced plans to look into whether Google's competitors are being treated unfairly...
Herb Kohl (D-Wis.head of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights, has announced that Google will face antitrust scrutiny due to its growing online dominance.
