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Topic: Mumbai
CEO who forged court order to get Google to remove defamation faces prison
Contributor Chris Silver Smith tells the lamentable story of a sophisticated apparent reputation attack and a victimized company led to take desperate steps to recover.
Google Tiptoes Into India With Street View
Google launched Street View on Thursday in India, the second most-populous country on earth. But “launch” may be a bit of an overstatement because, in a country that’s also the seventh biggest in square mileage, Google is only taking photographs in one city: Bangalore. Google announced that it’s using both cars and trikes to photographs […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 9, 2009
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
California Lawmaker Jumps On ‘Google Maps Helps Terrorists’ Bandwagon
A California lawmaker has introduced a bill that would limit what Google Maps and other online mapping sites are allowed to show, on the basis that these online tools help terrorists plan attacks. We’ve been here before: Late last year, the Indian government suggested that Google Earth should be censored after terrorists involved in the […]
California State Legislator Wants To Limit Info On Maps To Block Terrorists
Citing the Mumbai terrorists’ statement that they used Google Maps as a planning tool, a California legislator (from El Cajon) has introduced a bill which would “not allow online mapping tools from companies like Google Inc. to provide aerial or satellite images of schools, places of worship, government buildings and medical facilities unless they have […]
Google: ‘Don’t Blame Us For Terrorism’
Comparing it to blaming car makers for deadly car bombs, Google Earth chief John Hanke recently said Google shouldn’t be blamed for terrorist use of Google Earth. Hanke defended his online mapping tools in a recent interview with the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper. “You have cars; you have car bombs,” Hanke said. “You have GPS […]
TweetNews: Yahoo Programmer Melds News Search & Twitter
TweetNews is a new search engine that uses hot Twitter topics to bring more relevance and freshness to news search. It’s a pet project developed by Vik Singh, a member of Yahoo’s BOSS team. As Vik describes it on his personal blog, fresh news often doesn’t have enough links to rank well in a traditional […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, December 12, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Indian Government Wants Google Earth Censored
On the heels of the tragic terrorist attacks in Mumbai last month, legal advocates in India are asking the country’s High Court to demand that Google blur sensitive locations on Google Earth. The Times reports that the Indian petition says Google Earth “aids terrorists in plotting attacks” and offers “absolutely no control to prevent misuse […]
Microsoft Launches New Live Search Maps India & New Virtual Earth Imagery
Microsoft has announced they released a new Live Search Maps India plus new imagery to Virtual Earth.