Software must: be pre-approved by Google; offer one-click, complete uninstall; provide clear, full disclosure and transparency to people about what is being installed and what changes are being made to their devices; install itself on only one...
We understand that the FTC's Consumer Protection Bureau is now looking closely at the issue of search labeling transparency and is strongly considering a formal review of compliance with the 2002 guidelines for search engine disclosure concerning...
Only with this level of disclosure will we be able to stop the fraud that occurs not just in search but also in display advertising. But when you back them up against advertiser and consumer needs, they are developed out of sync.
Search Engines Forum Spotlight - Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Releases Web Page Creator Will Disclosure Have To Go? Consumer watchdogs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation are urging a boycott...
See the Search Engine Watch Newsletters Will Disclosure Have To Go? Consumer watchdogs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation are urging a boycott of Google's new Desktop Search program, citing privacy concerns.
Transcripts from Conference on Search Ad Disclosure Now Available - In June, Danny blogged about a panel he was on at: Trust or Consequence: How Failure to Disclose Ad Relationships Threatens to Burst the Search Bubble, a conference sponsored by...
MSN Censorship & Revisiting The Need For Better Disclosure Yahoo has released a new Yahoo Search Subscriptions (beta) service that unites regular web search results found from crawling the open web with listings from free and fee-based database...
Also see Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting for our coverage of the last survey by Consumer Reports' WebWatch, with plenty of further links to material about FTC guidelines and other surveys.
And in this post, a bit more on disclosure that everyone ought to be providing. Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search SearchDay, Jan. Danny Sullivan reflects on how this year, web search will morph into consumer search...
Rating Search Engine Disclosure Practices SearchDay, November 24, 2004 Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting SearchDay, November 23, 2004 Google would be doing themselves a favor in offering better documentation and disclosure about...
In yesterday's SearchDay, I described a new report from advocacy watchdog Consumer WebWatch, which details the disclosure practices of the most heavily trafficked search sites. Consumer WebWatch employed four librarians to look at each of the 15...
Consumer WebWatch, a project of Consumers Union, the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, has been tracking search engine disclosure practices since the U.S. Last year, Consumer WebWatch released the results of a study of typical web users...
New Report: Search Engine Disclosure of Advertising By Gary Price, Nov. The 82 page report, In Search of Disclosure: How Search Engines Alert Consumers to the Presence of Advertising in Search Results (PDF file) notes, "Many of the Web's top...
The 82 page report: In Search of Disclosure: How Search Engines Alert Consumers to the Presence of Advertising in Search Results, is available as PDF file. Searching for Disclosure," WebWatch's third search-engines-related report, shows many of the...
But without disclosure, it's nearly impossible for the typical search consumer to distinguish paid inclusion ads from free listings -- and some will want to do this. Going Beyond FTC Paid Inclusion Disclosure Guidelines SearchDay, June 17, 2004...
How About Better Search Engine Disclosure? This is excellent disclosure (and not something I believe Yahoo or other search engines do). Want a real-life example of the need for disclosure? Disclosure helps searchers, not just companies that want to...
Search engines are complying with FTC guidelines about disclosure of paid inclusion, but it could be that FTC may tighten those rules in the future. Kevin Ryan makes some really good points about how affiliate programs and resellers make for...
Instead, it was done to intimately understand how individual consumers react to existing paid disclosure information. Google gets top ratings for consumer satisfaction in the search engines category, according to a study by the University of...
Commercial Alert filed its complaint with the FTC on Monday, claiming that AltaVista, AOL Time Warner, Direct Hit, iWon, LookSmart, Microsoft and Terra Lycos are violating US law by inserting paid listings within their search engine results...
Commercial Alert filed its complaint with the FTC on Monday, claiming that AltaVista, AOL Time Warner, Direct Hit, iWon, LookSmart, Microsoft and Terra Lycos are violating US law by inserting paid listings within their search engine results...
