Category: The search engine industry

This week an Italian court sentenced three Google executives to six months in prison for allowing users to post a video on YouTube in 2006.

This week Microsoft and Yahoo! announced that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission.

The Google/China controversy has got a new chapter. The cyber attacks have been traced back to two Chinese schools.

This week saw the birth of the Apple iPad. In spite of initial skepticism Steve Jobs has decided that the tablet has a future, and he is right. It will also change the way we search. Pandia argues that publishers should support at tool that lets tablet users safe the web and subscription based content at the same time.

To understand the Google China war we need to understand how the Communist party thinks and acts.

Google is no longer willing to continue censoring search results on Google.cn after proof of surveilance. Recent attacks on Google and the subsequent investigation has led to the discovery that the accounts of dozens of U.S.-, China- and Europe-based Gmail users who are advocates of human rights in China appear to have been routinely accessed by third parties.

Google results offend Christians, but if you search for “Islam is” Google will give you no search suggestions.

Many search engines now have a feature that tracks your web history and use. Why do they have it and does it really benefit you? What can you gain by having the search engines track your searches as well as browsing patterns? Learn why this data is collected and what it is really used for.