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...
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). In addition to the common filtering attributes throughout the site, the...
Google has followed up last week's transparency report update – which revealed that government requests have risen by 70 percent over the last two years – with a little more information on how it deals with and why it responds to government data...
Creating a Federal Government Agency Keyword Strategy Government Agencies s likely that agencies will have top ranking for core keywords - "brand" terms like the agency name, and closely-related terms like their areas of focus, regulation, and...
Their current letter to FTC Chair Jon Leibowitz reiterates their position from last November: “Search is not a government-run utility, established by law and thus subject to bureaucratic oversight. As we have publicly stated previously, the search...
The unblocking marks a quick end to the government sanctioned block of Google's email service. We wanted to ban YouTube and then Gmail was cut off as well, and this was unintended," Iranian official Mohammad Reza Aghamiri told the Mehr News Agency...
After reviewing their competitive landscape, we find that the space (rankings) is dominated by government websites. That is to say, any keywords that have any amount of search volume and are “on target” with who we’re trying to reach, have official...
Google is alarmed by government requests to remove political content from search results, fearing that free expression may be at risk. We hope this tool will be helpful in discussions about the appropriate scope and authority of government requests.
NSA refused to confirm or deny a relationship between the two, arguing that this could make the U.S.government and its information systems potentially vulnerable to attacks. It was suggested that the Chinese government may have instigated them...
Google today filed a 17-page response to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), accusing the government agency of causing delays that slowed down the Street View Wi-Fi data grab investigation and resulted in Google paying a $25,000 fine.
The $230 million is split according to how much time and resources each agency put into the investigation. Select Rhode Island law enforcement agencies are about to beef up their training, equipment and investigative budgets.
Pharmaceutical companies and business to government entities are restricted in how they do marketing, and this tract is specifically tailored on how to optimize search strategies for these types of businesses.
No government agency could possibly keep up. How can a government agency possibly know what information an individual needs or wants and whether it is being satisfactorily delivered,and how can any government not of the totalitarian variety have...
The simple fact that this affiliate site provides useful information means it has received recommendations from The New York Times and from the UK government. I spoke to Andy Barr, co-founder of award-winning PR agency 10 Yetis about his...
Even so, they may have a more difficult time convincing users that Google+ is the more secure, private option as they’ve been working hand in hand with the government to create an Identity Ecosystem and are now an accredited identity agency.
Google claims they’ve reached an agreement with the agency, who say the RFP from July 2010 is “stale,” paving the way for Microsoft and Google to once again go at each other’s throats over the lucrative government cloud contract.
Mind you the Korean system involves government verification of ID, but Google does ask for the same when people reinstate accounts, so I would say it is playing in the same pond, perhaps even on the same lily pad.
It is good to see the government is getting smart about social media. Now the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a $42 million budget to pursue developing this idea, the New York Times reported.
The interest isn't limited to corporations and varies from government departments to the individual level of the CEO as well. Mengniu, a dairy giant in China, was exposed last October for paying $42,000 to a PR agency, which hired an online water...
Eric Schmidt compares blocking access to illicit filesharing sites such as PirateBay to China blocking websites via the Great Firewall and says that Google will challenge UK government plans to fight piracy (such as the Digital Economy Act).
