Feb 6, 2012 at 5:01pm ET by Greg Sterling

After China and the US, India is the third largest internet market in the world. But India has philosophically aligned itself more with China in pursuing a policy of censorship toward publication of content deemed “offensive” or “objectionable” by individuals, groups or the government. A recently enacted law seeks to remove all such content from the internet in India. Facebook, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft were sued under the law and had been arguing in Indian court that it was all but impossible for them to comply as a practical matter. The law makes online publishers potentially li [...]

Feds Shut Down Mortgage Scammers on Bing/Yahoo

Nov 22, 2011 at 12:32pm ET by Pamela Parker

The online advertising mortgage scam investigation announced last week by the Treasury Department involves Bing and Yahoo, as well as Google. the agency has revealed. The Office of the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) says 125 scams in all have been shut down, as Bing has ceased relationship with more than 400 advertisers and agencies identified by the agency. Ads placed through Microsoft's adCenter are distributed on Yahoo, as well as on Bing.com. The mortgage scams under investigation by SIGTARP involve bad actors who lured in unsuspecting troubled [...]

Related Topics: Legal | Microsoft: adCenter | Microsoft: Bing | Yahoo: Legal

Yahoo Search Data Retention Goes From 90 Days To 18 Months

Apr 20, 2011 at 10:22am ET by Greg Sterling

As the privacy screws tighten in the US and Europe, Yahoo is doing something surprising: extending the time it holds on to personal search records. In 2008 Yahoo decided to retain search records for only three months. Yahoo thus became the most "progressive" of the major search sites with its compressed data-retention policy. Now Yahoo is reversing itself. The Europeans had been demanding search/IP data retention of less than six months. And last January Microsoft agreed to comply with that standard. Google, however, refused to retain search records for less than 18 months. The company c [...]

Related Topics: Yahoo: Legal | Yahoo: Outside US | Yahoo: Search

Italians Issue Another Dubious Anti-Search Decision

Mar 24, 2011 at 9:40am ET by Greg Sterling

Earlier this year the Italian Communications Authority decided that YouTube was effectively a TV broadcaster and imposed the same rules and restrictions that apply to TV in Italy -- and potential penalties for their violation -- on Google. It said that Google is now legally responsible for any content appearing on YouTube. Now an Italian court has done something potentially much more sweeping with broad implications for search in Italy. Yahoo Guilty for Linking to Infringer Yahoo (in its capacity as a search engine) has been found liable for helping facilitate copyright infringement by index [...]

Paul Allen Refiles Patent Suit Against Google, Facebook, Yahoo & Others

Dec 29, 2010 at 12:59am ET by Matt McGee

As expected, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has re-filed his patent infringement lawsuit against some of the biggest companies on the web. The suit alleges that 11 companies have infringed on technology developed in the 1990s by Interval Licensing (AKA Interval Research Corporation), one of Allen's companies. The 11 companies named in the suit are Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Apple, AOL, eBay, YouTube, NetFlix, Office Depot, OfficeMax, and Staples. Allen first filed the lawsuit in late August, but it was dismissed earlier this month as being too vague. The district court judge gave Allen until [...]

Related Topics: Facebook | Google: Legal | Legal: Patents | Yahoo: Legal

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