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Canada’s Supreme Court orders Google to de-index site globally, opening door to censorship

Decision is dangerous to free speech and the free flow of online information. ...

Greg Sterling | Jun 28, 2017 at 6:39 pm ET

EU sources say $1.17 billion antitrust fine against Google coming in weeks

Shopping search penalty is the first of three potential fines against the company....

Greg Sterling | Jun 16, 2017 at 10:37 am ET

EU ready to fine Google billions in shopping search antitrust case [Report]

In one of three active cases, the company faces potential fines of up to $9 billion....

Greg Sterling | Jun 2, 2017 at 10:12 am ET

 

Two major changes potentially coming to EU’s Right to Be Forgotten with global implications

Authorities in France considering automatic delisting for "sensitive personal data" and forcing global index removal....

Greg Sterling | May 16, 2017 at 8:44 am ET

Google’s ‘Project Owl’ — a three-pronged attack on fake news & problematic content

Google hopes to improve by better surfacing authoritative content and enlisting feedback about suggested searches and Featured Snippets...

Danny Sullivan | Apr 25, 2017 at 10:00 am ET

Google did not ban Infowars; did rescind quality example using an Infowars article

Infowars article was used to help illustrate how quality raters might judge content, but raters have no power to censor, ban or penalize...

Danny Sullivan | Apr 18, 2017 at 4:09 am ET

A deep look at Google’s biggest-ever search quality crisis

Under fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as incorrect, absurd or even dangerous results surface to the...

Danny Sullivan | Apr 3, 2017 at 9:00 am ET

Google receives search warrant for identities of everyone who searched crime victim’s name

If this overly broad warrant were duplicated in other jurisdictions, local law enforcement might use Google as a first stop in their...

Greg Sterling | Mar 17, 2017 at 1:03 pm ET

Florida court: Google permitted to delist sites regarded as spam under First Amendment

The e-ventures Worldwide, LLC vs. Google case should have been dismissed...

Greg Sterling | Feb 10, 2017 at 4:59 pm ET

Google’s top results for ‘Did the Holocaust happen’ now expunged of denial sites

Initial fix merely bumped denial site down, then failed to work consistently. Now the denial site is gone from first page of...

Danny Sullivan | Dec 24, 2016 at 1:45 am ET

Have Google and Facebook become unwitting tools of extremism?

Google and Facebook are committed to facts and progress, but The Guardian argues they may be helping to undermine both....

Greg Sterling | Dec 5, 2016 at 11:42 am ET

Google creates its own antitrust woes with poor communication over search listings

Have an issue with your listings in Google? Getting an official answer might be tough. And when that happens to a Google competitor, as it did...

Danny Sullivan | Nov 1, 2016 at 2:59 pm ET

New EU copyright rules: basic fairness or punitive media subsidy?

Europe sees a fairer marketplace, Google sees a bonanza for lawyers....

Greg Sterling | Sep 19, 2016 at 5:58 pm ET

Report: EU responding to Google antitrust search-quality defense with new objections

Supplementary statement reportedly being filed to enable European Commission to address Google's defense against claims of abuse of market...

Greg Sterling | Jul 8, 2016 at 11:16 am ET

Google facing likelihood of third antitrust complaint in Europe

AdWords and search-box contracts the focus of potentially impending third Statement of Objections from European Commission....

Greg Sterling | Jun 27, 2016 at 12:51 pm ET

Google appeals French order to censor Right-to-Be-Forgotten links globally

Google is taking its case to France's highest administrative...

Greg Sterling | May 19, 2016 at 3:13 pm ET

Florida court allows Google to be sued by publisher delisted as “pure spam”

Procedural ruling flies in the face of established legal precedent....

Greg Sterling | May 18, 2016 at 9:36 am ET

Copyright bully Getty Images complains to EU that Google coerced it into image search

Company says high-res image search results have harmed traffic and revenues....

Greg Sterling | Apr 27, 2016 at 10:39 am ET

Mississippi attorney general’s “conspiracy to censor the internet” back on as appeals court rules against Google

Google had alleged the Motion Picture Association of America was using Mississippi attorney general's action as a tool of its private interests...

Greg Sterling | Apr 11, 2016 at 10:46 am ET

Streetmap Loses Anti-Competitive Lawsuit Against Google In UK

Streetmap had sued on grounds that putting Google Maps at the top of search results was an “abuse of...

Greg Sterling | Feb 12, 2016 at 12:40 pm ET
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