MicroHoo-Ying Eyeing Global Reach, What About Ask?
Nov 5, 2009 at 8:40am ET by Greg Sterling
There's a report from Reuters this morning that Microsoft and Yahoo are considering expanding the scope of their search deal "outside the United States":
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday the company could look to extend its search engine partnership with Yahoo outside the United States, if it gets regulatory approval.
Wasn't that already the intention? I thought it was a global deal already. European regulators wouldn't be considering it if it didn't apply to their markets; they wouldn't have jurisdiction. So I guess I'm a bit confused I guess.
Regardless, if [...]
Filed in: Ask: General, Legal: General, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Outside US, Microsoft: Partnerships, Yahoo: Outside US
Google Dashboard Offers New Privacy Controls
Nov 5, 2009 at 5:15am ET by Matt McGee
Google has launched a new privacy dashboard -- technically just called Google Dashboard -- that gives users quicker access to, and more control over, the personal information stored in Google's databases. The dashboard is a one-stop shop for managing this data and the settings that are associated with the Google products you use when signed in to your Google account.
"We recognize how important our users' trust is, so we're looking for ways to be more transparent," says Shuman Ghosemajumder, Google's Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety. "Over the last 11 years we've launched a [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Dashboard, Legal: Privacy, Top News
Facebook Wins Big Anti-Spam Judgment
Oct 30, 2009 at 11:16am ET by Greg Sterling
Facebook has been in an ongoing fight against spam and yesterday announced a significant victory in court. The company said it had obtained an eye-popping $711 million judgment against Spam King Sanford Wallace who had had posted unwanted messages on Facebook users' Walls. Wallace, who is reportedly bankrupt may also face time in the big house. According to the Facebook blog:
While we don't expect to receive the vast majority of the award, we hope that this will act as a continued deterrent against these criminals. Most notably, the judge referred Wallace to the U.S. Attorney's Office with a [...]
Filed in: Facebook, Legal: General
Chinese Newspaper Says Google Censored Its Web Site
Oct 27, 2009 at 2:04pm ET by Matt McGee
Oh, the irony: The People's Daily, the main newspaper of China's Communist Party, says Google censored its web site by adding a malware warning to search result listings for the newspaper's book section.
The paper says the malware warning appeared after it ran an article about a Chinese group that has suggested Google's book search settlement might violate the rights of Chinese authors. The paper says the malware warning appeared for three days, and claimed that its book section was "maliciously blocked by Google."
Google called the claims "absolutely incorrect" and pointed out that i [...]
Filed in: Google: Critics, Google: Outside US, Legal: Censorship
Twitter Not Giving Access To Private Tweets
Oct 20, 2009 at 3:44pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Is Twitter allowing search engines access to protected tweets or not? Not, Twitter tells me, though the company probably needs to do a bit more to prevent this type of confusion in the future.
The LA Times reported yesterday about a "Twitter hole" that it believed allowed Google special access to protected tweets, tweets made from Twitter accounts where owners have deliberately chosen not to have their tweets be made public.
Not so, said TechCrunch. The so-called protected tweets that the LA Times was finding in Google looked to be those made from before particular account holder [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Legal: Privacy, Top News, Twitter
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