The basis of the data was a public government database. Do you think your site has been hit by Panda? While Google has now rolled the Panda algorithm into the main algorithm, many publishers have never recovered from the many Panda updates that...
As the United States debates government use of consumer metadata, a recent Boston Globe post by Farah Stockman illuminates how data can be used to make predictions, citing a joke that the FBI investigates pizza places because "People in hiding...
Google has filed a legal challenge to the U.S.government, demanding the right to reveal more information on the data requests it receives in the latest twist in the PRISM scandal. Since news of PRISM broke earlier this month, tech giants such as...
During World War II, "Loose Lips Sink Ships" was a motto coined by the U.S.government, to caution both military members and civilians to be careful not to let slip innocuous comments that, by themselves, might be harmless.
From time to time, people allege that we have created a government 'back door' into our systems, but Google does not have a back door for the government to access private user data. We do not provide any government organization with direct access...
Verified pages belong to a small group of prominent public figures (celebrities, journalists, government officials, popular brands and businesses) with large audiences,” the site notes in a blog post announcing the news.
Credited to John Boyer, a fighter pilot, this framework has been adopted by numerous organizations around the world including militaries, businesses and government entities. War is the realm of uncertainty.
Google recently released data that shows government takedown requests by court order are on the rise, and that Google does comply around 45 percent of the time with U.S.requests. In a ruling this week, a German federal court said Google must...
Unless, of course, your viewpoint is that of a government official responsible for controlling the unruly masses in the Middle East or North Africa. Particularly if the government is unpopular. Although, given that this authority was (indirectly...
Other critics of the law say it could lead to more censorship by the government outside of its original intent. It’s no secret that Google receives thousands of government requests worldwide to takedown content each year, and the search engine...
report, the online activist group lauded a number of major companies for their efforts to help preserve user privacy and report to the public the extent of their cooperation with government groups. The report judged firms based on a number of...
From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms, an all-time high. Google reported in its bi-annual transparency report that government requested takedowns are up from the first half of last...
Since the government has decided that it's too much trouble for us to have to enter our various user names and passwords when logging into websites, they came up with the idea of NSTIC, wherein Identity Providers will "vouch" for us.
Google is fighting a National Security Letter (NSL) issued by the U.S.government, with the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) acknowledging it is one of the first firms to do so. Google took the unusual step last month of revealing, albeit in...
Government or Ad Types, the website actually provides faster access to these two attributes by also including them in the main navigation bar (accompanied by similar filters). Last week, Google launched its updated Think Insights website.
Official studies put the number of languages spoken in India somewhere around 325, with 22 of those being recognized as official languages by the government. Your domestic SEO program is progressing well.
Since 2010 the company has been at odds with the country's government over its co-called Great Firewall and censorship policies. The Chinese Ministry of Technology has accused Google of unfairly discriminating against local firms by hindering the...
Add to that blogs on education and schools, blogs on local government, not to mention a host of blogs on public relations, online reputation and online mess-ups! Sometimes a breaking news story spreads like wildfire.
In China, most people are still on dial-up, plus have a massive government firewall to further increase slowdown. Don’t even bring it up around me unless you're prepared to listen to me chat about it for the next 20 hours straight.
Governments, he says, will find it "too risky" to have thousands of citizens "anonymous, untraceable and unverified" online, suggesting they will want to require verification of all online accounts at some level of government.
