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Apr. 24, 2008 at 8:45am by Barry Schwartz
Google Finally Hands Over Alleged Pedophiles' Profiles On Orkut To Brazilian Authorities
Google hands over data on suspected pedophiles to Brazil via the AFP reports Google has finally handed over profiles of suspected pedophiles to Brazilian authorities. As expected, Google did hand over 3,261 files with information about alleged pedophilia activities in Google's Orkut communities. A member of the senate commission, Demostenes...
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Apr. 10, 2008 at 9:54am by Danny Sullivan
"Previous Query" Refinement Coming To Hit Google Results
Yesterday (technically still today my time), I did a keynote interview with Google vice president of search products & user experience Marissa Mayer during our SMX Sydney show. We covered a wide range of topics, including how "Previous Query" refinement will soon come to natural listings on Google, plus how...
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Apr. 10, 2008 at 9:44am by Barry Schwartz
90-Percent Of Pedophilia Complaints In Brazil Come From Google's Orkut
Brazil Senate orders Google to identify website pedophiles via AFP reports a Brazilian Senate has ordered Google to hand over the profiles of 3,261 suspected pedophiles yesterday. However, according to The Inquirer, Google is willing to help Brazilian authorities but not hand over users' personal information. Sergio Suiama, Sao Paulo's...
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Nov. 14, 2007 at 9:23am by Greg Sterling
Inbox 2.0: Vision And Perhaps Confusion At Google And Yahoo
A much discussed blog posting this morning comes from Saul Hansell at the New York Times, who spoke to both Google and Yahoo about their plans to turn their email products into social networks, in a manner of speaking: "Inbox 2.0." The plans discussed in the post suggest some clever...
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Oct. 31, 2007 at 12:33am by Danny Sullivan
OpenSocial: Led By Google, Social Networks Band To Take On Facebook
As expected, the much-discussed Google social play turns out to be an alliance with other companies to "open up" social networks and their data to developers. TechCrunch and the New York Times both have early news of an expected announcement tomorrow on how Google, along with partners like Ning,...
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Oct. 30, 2007 at 8:59am by Greg Sterling
Google Phone (Or OS) Ready To Launch: Mobile 'Maka-Maka'
In what now has become an almost weekly industry exercise in anticipation and speculation, the Wall Street Journal writes about the forthcoming unveiling of Google's plans for its (Phone/OS) mobile launch ("within the next two weeks"). The interesting new aspect of the piece is the idea of the OS/software as...
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Oct. 19, 2007 at 8:36am by Barry Schwartz
Google's International Headache: Orkut
Google Under Fire Over a Controversial Site from the Wall Street Journal has an outstanding summary of all the controversy, politics, legalities and moral issues Google has run into due to their Brazilian favored social networking site, Orkut. The article covers how Google had to pull the ads on Orkut...
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Sep. 24, 2007 at 9:58am by Danny Sullivan
Google To Pressure Facebook To "Free" Social Data & Planning Google Earth World?
Two things from the weekend suggest Google may be getting more serious about the social networking threat posed by Facebook. TechCrunch had news that Google is going to open up its social data information, while Google Operating System spotted a post that Google may have plans for a new social...
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Sep. 12, 2007 at 8:00am by Danny Sullivan
Activity Streams & Other Social Nuggets From Leaked Google Video
A new video, apparently leaked and intended to orient new Googlers about the Google Reader application, has shed some new light on Google's plans in the feed and social space, as well as providing some stats on Google Reader itself. Leaked Google Video Discusses Google Reader, Social Efforts from Google...
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Sep. 5, 2007 at 9:56am by Danny Sullivan
Facebook Opens Profiles To Tap Into Google Traffic, While Google Grabs Facebook's News Feed Idea
Google is getting a bit more like Facebook by enabling a Facebook-style news feed within its Orkut social networking site, while the king of the walled gardens Facebook acknowledges in actions (rather than words) that it really can't go it alone without search engines like Google, as it prepares to...
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Aug. 23, 2007 at 9:09am by Barry Schwartz
Brazil Says Google Still Not Cooperating Over Illegal Orkut Activities
Brazilian prosecutors say Google has not provided Orkut user information regarding crimes from the Associated Press reports that Brazilian authorities say that Google Brazil is still not complying with requests to hand over information on those using Orkut for illegal activities. Some use Orkut to help spread child pornography and...
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Mar. 27, 2007 at 7:55am by Danny Sullivan
Google's Orkut Gets Polls; Answers Next?
The wisdom of orkut from the Official Google Blog covers how Google's social networking site Orkut now allows people to post polls. No big deal? Perhaps not. But it also makes me wonder if it's a first step toward trying to give Orkut an answer search roll for Google....
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Feb. 1, 2007 at 9:00am by Barry Schwartz
Google Fensi: Google's Asian Social Networking Site?
Over the past day or so, there has been a lot of discussion about something named "Google Fensi." Google Operating Systems first posted about it linking to this screen capture. Garett Rogers then dug deeper to explain it was found within the Google in Your Language page, but he isn't...
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Jan. 30, 2007 at 8:32am by Barry Schwartz
Google To Test SMS Feature In Orkut Brazil
The Google Blog announced that Google will be launching a new feature for Orkut users that use Claro as their mobile provider in Brazil. The feature will enable users of Orkut to SMS message their Orkut friends from their mobile phones. The details on exactly how this is done, is...
