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.
The action follows an initial investigation by the French data protection authority CNIL, on behalf of the Article 29 group of which the ICO is a member.The ICO also confirmed that several other data protection authorities in Europe are also...
By September 2011, Yelp was testifying against Googlein the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights. There is a fundamental conflict between being a search provider and a content provider,” Consumer Watchdog Privacy...
Shorten Privacy Policy and Small Print: Make the small print useful and human friendly. A glut of algorithm changes (such as Google's Penguin s not to say that adding a few percentage points to your conversion rate is easy.
Some of the best pages to tap for link equity are pages "off the beaten path," like company leaders, privacy policy, terms of service, contact us, etc. There's debate over whether Google devalues footer links.
Markey has spoken out against Google before, most recently opposing Google's new privacy policy. Congressman and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) are calling for further investigations of the search giant.
Even as users remain ignorantly blissful, last-ditch efforts continue to prevent Google’s new privacy policy from being implemented this Thursday, March 1. We are confident that our new simple, clear and transparent privacy policy respects all...
Amalgamating the data available from all services with their new privacy policy, plus the data collection and tracking power offered by their social plugin, makes Google+ a success for Google whether you and I are there or not, unless we plan on...
No, this isn't about its app privacy policy or browser tracking, though lately it seems like you need a scorecard to keep track of all the privacy issues Google is dealing with at the moment. The move will consolidate the privacy policy for all...
Federal Trade Commission in the hopes of stopping the new Google privacy policy, which is set to become effective March 1. Google announced plans to consolidate more than 60 policies into one “simplified” easy-to-read privacy policy, that Google...
Google last week announced that starting March 1, more than 60 privacy policies associated with its various platforms and services will be boiled down to one simpler policy. In short, we'll treat you as a single user across all our products, which...
A new unified Google privacy policy is coming in March. The only change for Google Analytics users under the new privacy policy is that now, information about how you interact with the Google Analytics interface may be shared with our other...
This change in policy is bad news for website owners who want to use analytics to improve onsite experience for their visitors. That secure search is only activated for a subset of Google users makes the company seem less committed to privacy.
The potential consequences of having this information range all the way from the Fed increasing information accessibility and tuning their policy-making to the actual feelings of the public to intentional misinformation and finding "terrorist...
While this may appear as easy as the stroke of a policy pen ("Just let the businesses in! Defense of the policy while adamant, is easily shot through with holes so large you could drive a train through them, leaving a result that cannot logically...
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...
Anchor text such as "Privacy Policy", "Customer service", "My Account" and "Order Tracking" suggests that much of the anchor text is being internally generated as other websites are unlikely to link to a site using these terms.
Google policy is to get right up to the creepy line but not cross it. His "jokes" about privacy gave Google foes plenty of ammunition. Google was increasingly being viewed as immobile, their attempts at social failed, Facebook became the "cool...
PaidContent said this indicates they have objections to AdWords' trademark policy, which allows rivals of trademark owners to buy their keywords and then use those words to advertise against them. The European Union is pushing for stronger privacy...
In addition, Google has committed $8.5 million to an independent fund, most of which will support organizations promoting privacy education and policy on the web. Google's attempt at challenging Facebook and Twitter in the social networking realm...
