Posts Tagged ‘Google’

ACCC wins appeal against Google

Written on April 11th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
This week the Full Federal Court unanimously upheld the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s appeal filed in October 2011 against Google. The Full Court declared that Google, by publishing the ...
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Google cookies ‘bypassed Safari privacy protection’

Written on February 18th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Google has been accused of bypassing the privacy settings of users of the Safari web-browser. The Wall Street Journal said Google and other companies had worked around privacy settings designed ...
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Google+ Making Strides Online

Written on February 13th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
The popularity of Google+ has showed dramatic growth recently, according to February 2012 analysis from Compete, which tracked the the landing page for the main feature of the social network, ...
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Microsoft slams new Google policy

Written on February 3rd, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Microsoft has taken out full-page newspaper adverts to criticise changes to Google’s policies. Google has touted the changes it announced last week as a simplification of detailed but obtuse policies ...
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Google reveals action over Mosley

Written on January 27th, 2012 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Google has removed hundreds of web pages relating to former Formula 1 boss Max Mosley’s sex life from its search results index, Britain’s Leveson Inquiry on press standards has heard. ...
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Google Engineer Calls Google Plus a ‘Complete Failure’

Written on October 14th, 2011 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Steve Yegge, a senior engineer at Google, has accidentally and publicly posted a critical analysis about his company’s understanding of platforms, calling Google Plus a "complete failure." In a 4,000-plus-word ...
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Google+ social network adds games

Written on August 12th, 2011 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Google+ added games, including the hugely popular Angry Birds, to the fast-growing social network vying with Facebook to be the hub for people’s online lives. ‘We want to make playing ...
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Harry Potter website adds Google magic

Written on July 21st, 2011 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Author JK Rowling’s website devoted to fictional wizard Harry Potter will feature a bit of Google magic when it debuts later this year in the United States, according to the ...
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Geolocation Users See Social Benefit

Written on April 20th, 2011 by Mike Andrewno shouts
Users of smartphone-based geolocation apps are most likely to see connecting to other people as their primary benefit, according to a new study from digital marketing agency White Horse. Results ...
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Google, Facebook Users Skew Young, Affluent, and Educated

Written on February 22nd, 2011 by Mike Andrewno shouts
  Both Google and Facebook attract young, affluent, and educated Americans in large numbers, according to results of a new USA Today/Gallup poll. Each counts more than half of those ...
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