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News release, Joaquín Almunia Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy: “In November 2010, the Commission launched an antitrust investigation into allegations that Google had abused a dominant market position. This followed a number of complaints. We have looked at those complaints and at others we received since the opening. And we …
Google Scholar Blog: “We’ve recently been experimenting with a new modern look for Scholar search results. Many of you have already tried the new look and have offered valuable suggestions, which we’ve done our best to incorporate. Thank you for your time and patience! It is time…to launch the new modern look of our search …
BBC: Google is facing legal action over its decision to not label the body of water separating Iran and neighbouring Arab Gulf states on its online map service. The Iranians call the waterway the Persian Gulf, while Arab countries often refer to it as the Arabian Gulf. Iran has warned Google it will face “serious …
Google Official Blog: “The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows aboutlandmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and moreand instantly get information thats relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, …
Google Docs Blog: “Today were introducing the research panea new feature that brings the webs wealth of information to you as youre writing documents. The research pane taps into Google Search directly from Google documents, so whether you want to add a cool destination to your itinerary for an upcoming trip to India or you’re …
Google Inside Search – “Punctuation and symbols in search – Generally, most punctuation and special characters are ignored in Google Search. However, were expanding our search capabilities to support some characters that modify search terms and help Google find exactly what youre looking for. Here are some examples from the growing list of popular symbols …
NYT: “The new version of Bing is the biggest overhaul to the search engine since Microsoft introduced it three years ago. It is the result of a continual conversation at the company about how to make Bing a more effective competitor to that other search engine Google and try to stem its considerable …
Google – First Amendment Protection for Search Engine Results, April 20, 2012. Eugene Volokh and Donald M. Falk [This White Paper was commissioned by Google, but the views within it should not necessarily be ascribed to Google.] “…search engines produce and deliver their speech through a different technology than that traditionally used for newspapers and …
Conductor: “We recently published a study on the frequency Wikipedia appears in the search engine results pages (SERPs) that was covered by both Search Engine Watch and Search Engine Land. We broke a 2,000 keyword set into informational vs. transactional keywords, and our distribution of length of keywords was based on Hitwises keyword query length …
LA Times: “Google has released the full report of the Federal Communications Commissions investigation into the data it collected and stored from millions of unknowing households across the nation while operating specially equipped cars for its Street View service. The search giant released the report, which had had heavily redacted passages, after wrangling with the …
EPIC: “The Federal Communications Commission announced that it will fine Google $25,000 for obstructing an investigation concerning Google Street View and federal wiretap law. The Commission found that Google impeded by “delaying its search for and production of responsive emails and other communications, by failing to identify employees, and by withholding verification of the completeness …
News release: “comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the U.S. search marketplace. Google Sites led the explicit core search market in March with 66.4 percent of search queries conducted. U.S. Explicit Core Search: Google Sites led the U.S. explicit core search market in March …
