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Google ‘personalizes’ one in five searches
Eye on your history, your location, your friends Google “personalizes” as much as 20 per cent of your web searches, according to Mountain View software engineer Bryan Horling.… ?
Continue reading »Google typosquat cash pegged at $497m per year
Harvard boffins probe ‘mispelled’ domains Google may earn as much as $497m a year from typosquatters, according to a study from Harvard professor and noted Mountain View critic Ben Edelman.…
Continue reading »Bathroom scale plugs into Google Health
Share your weight with Mountain View Not content with knowing where you go, both in real and cyber space, Google will soon know how much you weigh too – thanks to wi-fi-connected scales.…
Continue reading »‘You own the road!’: Google gets spanking from media giant
‘Go buy another car’, responds Mountain View Google chief legal officer David Drummond was on the receiving end of an unexpected mugging yesterday, as the CEO of Burda Media – one of Germany’s largest and most successful publishing companies – tore into the Jolly G Giant, accusing it of controlling the market, lack of transparency and, effectively, running off with the bulk of the money.…
Continue reading »The ACTA Internet provisions: DMCA goes worldwide
That warm flood of outrage through the veins is addicting—but it also runs the danger of being addictive, and of being too easy. As the news broke this week about the “Internet provisions” in the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), it didn’t take long for the outrage to emerge. For instance, the popular blog Boing Boing (we love you, Cory!) announced that, under the proposed ACTA provisions being drafted by the US, “ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material.
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