Google has seen itself at the center of a number of government censorship and takedown efforts. Google warned that meetings such as the ITU conferences could allow government organizations to side-step the democratic process and apply even tighter...
barackobama.com is not owned by the government as some may believe, but rather it is registered via GoDaddy with Privacy Protection service, and I highly doubt that the United States government would need privacy protection) This leads us to a...
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.
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.
I am concerned about the corruption of government by media companies particularly,” according to Susanowa. Whether it’s called SOPA, PIPA, OPEN Act, or some other acronym, the U.S.government, driven by pressure largely out of Hollywood, is...
Two bills currently making their way through congress -- SOPA and PIPA -- give the US government and copyright holders extraordinary powers including the ability to hijack DNS and censor search results (and this is even without so much as a proper...
Government shutdown There are 17 different versions of Yahoo’s Year in Review available; here are the lists from searches in the United States. For more Top 10 lists on the most popular searches in finance, music, movies, and even desserts, or...
Should the government be doing more to protect users from online scams? Dawson (United States District Judge in Nevada) gave Chanel permission to seize 228 domains that, Chanel claimed, were selling counterfeit goods.
The government previously cracked down on Google for accepting ads from illegal online gambling sites. In May 2011, in connection with a potential resolution of an investigation by the United States Department of Justice into the use of Google...
During an informative interview, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, warned people that their Facebook, Yahoo and Google information is very accessible to the US government. Though, he noted there is no actual set up API for the government...
An Australian newspaper reported that the information for the arrests could have come from a credit card processor who had been arrested last year and was cooperating with the government to reduce his own sentence.
Many felt that it was a sign of over-regulation by the U.S.government. Microsoft is no stranger to antitrust litigation; however, in this Microsoft's role has done a 180 from their position as the monopoly in the United States vs.
Though freedom-of-expression provisions of Spanish law protect newspapers, legal gazettes and other publishers from government censors, the Spanish data regulator contends the protections don't extend to Internet search engines like Google," the...
Government Controlled Search Engine Panguso Launches in China by Danny Goodwin Last week, executives from the Chinese search engine Baidu flew to the United States to meet with Facebook in their Silicon Valley offices.
While Facebook did launch a Chinese language version back in 2008, currently Facebook is blocked by the Chinese government. Last week, executives from the Chinese search engine Baidu flew to the United States to meet with Facebook in their Silicon...
With all of the claims that Google is engaging with the protests for freedom in the Middle East - two of their employees were active in the Egyptian overthrow of the government - it would have been nice to see Google use this Doodle to also...
One key to the success of Chinese social media sites like Kaixin001 and Xing is the Golden Shield Project enforced by the Chinese government. The U.K.is second only to the United States in number of current Facebook users, according to WebCertain's...
As protests continue and the Egyptian government blocks access to the internet, Google created a workaround over the weekend so people can access Twitter via phone calls and leave updates, the company's official blog announced.
Wired pointed out that despite assurances in a congressional white paper that the "proposal prohibits the government from targeting websites for censorship "based solely on activities protected by the First Amendment of the United States...
The president also announced the launch of open access to where the government is spending money. During the address Obama referenced Google and Facebook and the power of the United States technology industry.
