Category «Search Engines»

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 3, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 3, 2022: Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines

Google Search and Maps results will confirm if a medical center offers abortions

engadget: “In the wake of Roe v. Wade being overturned, Google announced that it is making it easier to use its Maps and Search products to find medical providers that offer abortions. When someone searches for specific services and Google has confirmation that a location provides those services, it’ll be clearly labeled in Search and …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Courts, Government Documents, Health Care, Internet, Legal Research, Medicine, Search Engines

Google tracks 39 types of personal data, Apple tracks 12

AppleInsider: “New research claims that of five major Big Tech firms, Google tracks more private data about users than any other — and Apple tracks the least. Apple has previously introduced App Tracking Transparency specifically to protect the privacy of users from other companies. However, a new report says that Apple is also avoiding doing …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

The Mason OER Metafinder (MOM)

“The Mason OER Metafinder helps you find Open Educational Resources. Unlike other OER discovery sites (e.g, OER Commons, OASIS, MERLOT, OpenStax, etc.) with our Metafinder you aren’t searching a static database that we’ve built.  Instead, the OER Metafinder launches a real-time, simultaneous search across 22 different sources of open educational materials as you hit the Search button. Because …

Subjects: Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 20, 2022

Via LLRX – Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, August 20, 2022 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Health Care, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

Google Can & Does Drop URLs From Its Index Over Time

Search Engine Roundtable via Twitter: “Most SEOs that have been doing the search engine optimization thing for any amount of time know that Google can and likely will drop out URLs from the Google index. John Mueller from Google confirmed that this happens with Google Search on Twitter the other day. John wrote “It doesn’t …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Chrome “Feed” is tantalizing, but it’s not the return of Google Reader

Ars Technica – It’s not that Google doesn’t like RSS, it just wants RSS to look like Google: “Does Google enjoy teasing and sometimes outright torturing some of its products’ most devoted fans? It can seem that way. Tucked away inside a recent bleeding-edge Chrome build is a “Following feed” that has some bloggers dreaming …

Subjects: Internet, RSS, Search Engines