The concessions come following the European Commission's ongoing antitrust investigation into Google's search business. UK price comparison firm Foundem has rejected Google's proposed web search concessions.
Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin from the Commission Nationale de L'informatique et Des Libertes (CNIL), which is leading the Article 29 Working Party's investigation into Google's changes, said Google’s new privacy policies don’t conform to European laws.
Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL are on board with a new White House “Do Not Track” technology plan that will give more control to users and more power to the Federal Trade Commission. The issue is particularly interesting from a UK and European...
Microsoft has filed a formal complaint against Motorola with the European Commission (EC) over what it sees as a clear abuse of its industry standard patents, with Google's tacit backing. Not surprisingly, the European Commission does not seem to...
At a time when the European Commission is proposing to significantly enhance the protection of consumer privacy, Google need to be absolutely transparent about the data they capture and how it is used," Nick Pickles, director of privacy and civil...
Bloomberg quoted Matthew Readings, a London partner at law firm Shearman & Sterling as saying: "Almunia's comments show that Google is firmly on the commission's radar but it doesn't mean that enforcement action is imminent.
Meanwhile, the European Commission has received antitrust complaints about Google from three companies: UK price comparison site Foundem, French legal search engine ejustice.fr, and - irony of ironies - Microsoft's Ciao by Bing.
The Federal Trade Commission released a report recently "for public comment a set of proposed principles .designed to serve as the basis for industry self-regulatory efforts to address privacy concerns in this area.
Senators are urging the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to look with a critical eye on Google's planned acquisition of DoubleClick. Yahoo Could Be Selling European UnitsSeems Yahoo is unhappy with their European marketing efforts, the new head of...
This is how the site makes money - not by direct reselling but from donations and commission from affiliates. Ideally I would prefer to see a wider variety and from a British/European perspective the addition of .uk and .eu would be enormously...
Google Changing Agency Commission Payments In Europe - Many search marketers in the US are unaware that in Europe, both Google and Yahoo offer agency commissions. Infospace & Seekport Announce Partnership as InfoSpace President Leaves Company...
Google filed their first annual report (10-K) with the Security and Exchange Commission. The Toronto show will focus on Canadian issues, while the London show emphasizes UK and European issues. Google To Acquire Urchin Web Analytics Firm SEW Blog...
GoFish will generate revenue by earning a 9 percent to 15 percent commission from merchants for every sale it sends to a merchant. Several sites are reporting that Google Local is now online for several European countries.
Both Overture and Google eventually told me that at least in the US, they aren't offering commission payments to anyone. Fundrace uses data from the Federal Election Commission. It does not provide a commission on sales.
Fundrace uses data from the Federal Election Commission. AOL Europe and Google have announced a multi-year agreement that will bring Google AdWords paid search listings to AOL's European properties in the UK, France and Germany [6.3 million members”.
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. Yahoo has outsourced search ads that it's running for its European portal to UK-based WSPS.
The United States Federal Trade Commission successfully obtains a preliminary injunction against a company accused of stealing other people's high-ranking pages and submitting them to search engines in hopes of misleading consumers and capturing...
The US Federal Trade Commission extends its authority to include regulating misleading search results, taking action against two companies accused of tricking consumers. Pagejacking, a term first coined by the US Federal Trade Commission, is making...
This open letter to the US Federal Trade Commission about alleged restraint of trade by Google actually has little to do with any type of search "monopoly. It's a first for any US-based paid listings provider, though European provider Mirago...
You may recall that last month, I posted an extremely long article about the US Federal Trade Commission's recommendations about disclosure of paid content at search engines. Compare & Contrast: Ad Guidelines At Overture & Google + AOL Moves Fully...
