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From the Official Google Blog: Judge tells DoJ “No” on search queries, Posted by Nicole Wong, Associate General Counsel: “Google will not have to hand over any user’s search queries to the government. That’s what a federal judge ruled today when he decided to drastically limit a subpoena issued to Google by the Department of …
WSJ free feature – Google Wins Copyright Battle; Archiving Issue Is Still Unclear: “A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit accusing Google Inc. of wrongful conduct, including copyright infringement and defamation, providing the latest court opinion to weigh in on the contentious area of search engines and copyright.”
“Welcome to CenSEARCHip! This is a tool developed by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer at the Indiana University School of Informatics in March of 2006 to allow you to explore the differences in the results returned by different countries’ versions of the major search engines. We currently work with the Web search and image search …
Feds suggest 21-day deadline for Google subpoena The U.S. Justice Department has set a suggested deadline for Google to hand over information about its users’ search habits: 21 days.” Related postings on DOJ’s legal efforts to obtain specific Google database search records
March 1, 2006, It’s Time To Update Site Search Functionality, by Iris Cremers with Jaap Favier, Kerry Bodine Summary: “Forrester reviewed 179 Web sites with its updated Web Site Review methodology. One of the criteria looks at the site’s search engine and search interface and more than half of the sites we reviewed failed. …
Notes from CEO Eric Schmidt’s March 2 Google Analyst Day remarks, not intended for public release, mention a company plan to allow for the storage of “100% of user data” on a virtual drive.
Press release: according to Nielsen//NetRatings reports – “Online Search Hits All-Time High of 5.7 Billion Searches…the highest number to date.” Top three search engines remain: Google search, Yahoo search and MSN search.
Computers in Libraries 2006, Post Conference Workshops Saturday, March 25 – Workshop 17 1:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m., presented by Sabrina I. Pacifici (LLRX.com and beSpacific) This workshop focuses on leveraging the best of free and low-fee Web sites as well as Web-related services (RSS, Blogs) to support and disseminate research services. It …
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EU press release: “European Commission steps up efforts to put Europe’s memory on the Web via a “European Digital Library” – At least six million books, documents and other cultural works will be made available to anyone with a Web connection through the European Digital Library over the next five years.” The European Digital Library: …
How to Digitize a Million Books – Needed: scanning software for 430 languages and a system to organize the next big leap in the information age. Related postings on Google Book Search
Follow-up to postings on Google’s ongoing legal battle with DOJ on the release of database search records, CDT provides a PDF copy of the latest round of briefs, Gonzales v. Google, February 24, 2006, 26 pages. See also CNET News.com, Google’s Privacy Concerns Unfounded According to Newly Filed Brief: “The Justice Department has denied requesting …
