Complete strangers may prostrate themselves at your feet asking you to merely turn your gaze upon their site for the briefest of brief moments in order for it to catapult up the rankings and sell so many of their widgets that they’ll need to open...
A Brief History of Autocomplete's Legal Battles Receivership, or the legal state of having forfeited control of a business or estate to a receiver to allow for the attempted recovery of a debt, is a big concern for those who book expensive hotel...
Having successfully piloted programs, the Social Strategist seeks to expand the program, yet loses altitude from internal resistance to corporate transparency, turf battles, legal and security issues, and the challenges of calculating return on...
After being stonewalled by Google, Connecticut's Attorney General and Senator-Elect Richard Blumenthal is now taking legal action to force Google to reveal the data the company's Street View cars collected off unprotected wireless networks.
How this eventually gets applied across the country remains to be seen but it is the start of legal interpretation of search optimization. I've looked through the defendant's appellate brief and they don't clarify the technology for the court at...
Social Networking Sites and the Law – In preparation for an undergrad event looking at laws that pertain to social networking, Goldman has put together a brief summary of the legal issues involved. The legal debate's not over, since other courts...
Similar to the case dismissed against Geico, Rescuecom continued its legal battle and went to a Federal appelate court which should reach an opinion very soon. MediaPost reporteds that in a friend-of-the-court brief filed this week, the EFF argues...
The Others -- In Brief Of course, as with all things pharma, legal issue may prevent this from happening. Yesterday at the Search Engine Watch Blog, we discussed the “URL visibility factor” of advertisers in this year’s Super Bowl.
This paper is intended to brief publishers on the outline of this project and to encourage their active support and participation when the project is launched in September 2006. GLOBAL PUBLISHERS HEAD OFF LEGAL CLASH WITH SEARCH ENGINES: NEW RIGHTS
It's a shame that Google limited participation to American librarians, but it was explained to me that there would have been technical and legal problems with filming librarians from other countries (though that doesn't explain why they couldn't...
Google, AOL, Yahoo, Amazon and other online firms recently filed what's called a "friend of the court" brief in support of Craigslist in the matter. Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog discusses why the case against Craigslist probably...
Microsoft says after a review of its legal position, it realized it could include Google without a formal pact. Nevertheless, a few calls from reporters penetrated my holiday bubble, and I added a brief note with my thoughts below Barry's post...
Nevertheless, a few calls from reporters penetrated my holiday bubble, and I added a brief note with my thoughts below Barry's post about the news. Microsoft says after a review of its legal position, it realized it could include Google without a...
Google Sitemaps Stats On Most Common Words In Your Anchor Text Legal Issues Could Prove Costly; Many Still Bullish on Google Predictions and More Speculation on a Google Music Service - Elinor Mills has a brief post reporting that Bear Stearns...
I'm also wondering if there were any non-legal requests made to the search engines before the subpoenas? I'd like to better understand exactly how the testing will happen, something the DOJ should be able to comment upon irregardless to the...
Ware also set a date of Feb.for Google to file a legal brief with its arguments, and a Feb.date for the Justice Department to submit its reply. He heard the Sex.com case in 2001, a spam lawsuit in 1998, and a legal spat between RealNetworks and...
Brief Look at Danny's Appearance on Nightline Shares of Google Suffer Largest One Day Percentage Drop Ever; Legal Issues Could Today's search podcast covers the difference between private and personally identifiable searches; the difficulty in...
This discussion starts off with a very brief quote from Matt's blog that set off a literal firestorm of controversy: In this discussion, we have a wide variety of opinions posted, but some of the most interesting come from Ian McAnerin, who's both...
Legal Issues for Google Library Project in Europe - The Information World Review (IWR is a VNU publication) article: Google digitisation faces Euro legal challenge, reports on Google's book digitisation project (the Google Library Project to be...
One section of the report offers a brief roundup of various legal proceedings filed against the company. Although Google publicly announced their quarterly earnings a few weeks ago, those of you who love to and read quarterly reports will be...
