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FAQ: “The Art Project is a collaboration between Google and 151 acclaimed art partners from across 40 countries. Using a combination of various Google technologies and expert information provided by our museum partners, we have created a unique online art experience. Users can explore a wide range of artworks at brushstroke level detail, take a …
House of Lords – House of Commons – Joint Committee on Privacy and Injunctions Privacy and injunctions, Session 201012 – Report, together with formal minutes, minutes of evidence and appendices Ordered by the House of Lords and the House of Commons to be printed 12 March 2012 “A strong, free and vibrant press is essential …
Follow up to New ‘HTTPS Everywhere’ Version Warns Users About Web Security Holes see the following from privacy researcher Christopher Soghoian – Firefox switching to HTTPS Google search by default (and the end of referrer leakage). “A few days ago, Mozilla’s developers quietly enabled Google’s HTTPS encrypted search as the default search service for the …
Google Analytics: “Measuring the value of social media has been a challenge for marketers. And with good reason: its hard to understand exactly what is happening in an environment where activity occurs both on and off your website. Since social media is often an upper funnel player in a shoppers journey, it’s not always easy …
Danny Goodwin, March 19, 2012: “While Google is often criticized for having a Wikipedia bias, it isnt the only search engine that has one. When you conduct searches on Bing, youre actually more likely to see Wikipedia prominently in your search results than for the same search on Google, namely the No. 1 spot, one …
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 February with 66.4 percent of search queries conducted.”
Search Engine Use 2012, by Kristen Purcell, Joanna Brenner, Lee Rainie, Mar 9, 2012 “Even though online Americans are more satisfied than ever with the performance of search engines, strong majorities have negative views of personalized search results and targeted ads…Google continues to dominate the list of most used search engines. Asked which search engine …
College Search & Statistics for Over 7,000 U.S. Colleges and Universities [h/t J. Browning] “Trying to determine which college or university is best qualified to meet your unique academic, professional and lifestyle objectives can be a difficult and time consuming endeavor. CollegeSearchDatabase.com was developed to help aspiring students and education minded professionals quickly and easily …
“European Justice Minister Vivian Reding said today that Google’s March 1 changes to its terms of service violate European Union law “in numerous respects.” Commissioner Reding pointed to the failure of the company to obtain user consent, the lack of transparency, and the fact that most users do not read privacy policies. European privacy officials …
News release: “The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) launched the 2.0 version of HTTPS Everywhere for the Firefox browser today, including an important new update that warns users about web security holes. The “Decentralized SSL Observatory” is an optional feature that detects encryption weaknesses and notifies users when they are visiting a website with a security …
DuckDuckGo: An introduction to the anonymous search engine In an effort to educate Internet users about privacy, DuckDuckGos founder, Gabriel Weinberg, has been known to create educational and informative sites, including DontTrack.us, which informs users about the potential dangers of searching with Google.
How Search Engines Work, by Mike Grehan: “This year (2012) it will be ten years since I wrote the second edition of a book about search engines called Search Engine Marketing: The Essential Best Practice Guide. I decided to revisit it recently. Writing it was very difficult because there was nowhere near the amount of …
