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EPIC: “Following numerous protests around the world, Google has ended its illegal collection of wifi data transmissions. The company, which originally claimed it was not even collecting wifi data, was forced to admit that the practice has been ongoing for three years in more than thirty countries, following an independent investigation initiated by European privacy …
News release: “As part of the celebrations on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of its establishment, the Israel Antiquities Authority is launching a unique project The Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library to document the entire collection of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A major lead gift from the Leon Levy Foundation, …
Mobile Health 2010, by Susannah Fox, October 19, 2010: “The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults. The Pew Internet Projects latest survey of American adults, conducted in association with the California HealthCare Foundation, finds that 85% use a cell phone. Of those: 17% of cell owners have used their phone to …
“MetaLib is a service of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications. MetaLib is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online. To learn more, view additional brief or detailed search information.”
Could Google’s Achilles heel be showing as Facebook teams up with Microsoft? “Microsoft advanced its partnership with Facebook this week, a move that could represent the biggest threat to Google’s search standing yet. Microsoft and Facebook announced that they’re teaming up to make Internet searching more social. Now when someone uses Microsoft’s Bing search engine …
Automatic Generation of Research Trails in Web History, Elin Rønby Pedersen, Shengyin Gu, Peter Jin Hong, Karl Gyllstrom, Proc. IUI 2010. “The web is large and complex, and in the process of navigating it, we often lose our way. Research trailing is a method to organize web contents that we have spent some effort on …
Escaping the Scrapers: “The Internet has given rise to a dizzying array of people-search sites and data brokers that gather and compile public information and social-networking profiles. The sites gather information from public sources such as property records and telephone listings, and other information is harvested by scraping or copying websites where people …
“EPIC and 14 other privacy and consumer protection groups (including the American Library Association) sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt about Google’s revised privacy policy. Under this new policy, twelve specific Google privacy policies will be replaced by a single policy that will enable greater data sharing within the corporation. EPIC previously raised …
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PC Magazine: “Google has acquired BlindType, a startup with technology that seemingly magically intuits what a user is typing, no keyboard required. “We are excited to announce that BlindType has been acquired by Google” the company said in a blog post. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. “We want to thank everyone for their …
“How will the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans shake out after the elections on November 2? Many political experts and news sources track and revise predictions, but until now its been hard to compare perspectives. Weve worked with some of the top names in politics Sabato, Cook, Rothenberg, CQ-Roll Call, and RealClearPolitics …
Via LLRX.com – Google Instant and Legal Search: Steve Matthews enumerates some of the issues that merit attention with respect to Google’s recent implementation of this default setting search query application.
