Google's placement of its own flight-finding service in search results is resulting in lower click-through rates for companies that have not bought advertising, according to a study by Harvard University academics. The study provides data ...
Tags: Computer Products, Google Search, software
Google's proposed settlement of a European Union antitrust case amounts to continuing its discrimination against other search companies -- but putting a warning label on the practice, said an industry group. The search giant has proposed ...
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Concerns about the increased cost of compliance with privacy regulations influenced Google's decision to shut down Google Reader from July. According to an anonymous source speaking to AllThingsD, Google is attempting to better manage how ...
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Eleven complainants have sent an open letter to the European Union’s Competition Commissioner, Joaquín Almunia, urging him to formally charge Google with breaching competition law. “The Commission opened proceedings ...
Tags: Google, search engine, search manipulation
French EU privacy regulator CNIL is to take action against Google this summer, according to a statement the body has released on its website. CNIL's statement explains how after several months of investigation, European data protection ...
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A group of UK consumers is pursuing damages against Google in line with last year's accusations that the company was storing cookies in Apple's Safari web browser, regardless of users' privacy settings. Though Google was last year ...
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Amid further signs that the EU's two-year investigation into Google is coming to a head, EC competition commissioner Joaquin Almunia said that the internet giant will be forced to change the way it presents its search results if it wants to ...
Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including allowing competitors access to some standard technologies, to resolve a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust complaint against the company. Google has also agreed to ...
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Google has achieved what can only be described as a victory after an investigation into unfair search result manipulation by the US Federal Trade Commission. The FTC yesterday released its verdicts on two charges levelled against Google ...
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