As Google keeps on losing the battle against the other engines when it comes to online privacy, they decided to put up a video on YouTube which, while accurate, spin things their way and make them look much better, at least in the eyes of those who don’t know much about it.
PCWORLD wrote about this […]
Last week CNET News.com sent 8 questions to each search engine in an attempt to rank them based on their own observation of themselves. This is in an attempt to help people understand the different policies used by each engine on specific issues. The engines included AOL, Ask.com, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo and the questions […]
In response to recent privacy concerns Yahoo decided to alter their data retention policy and make all logged data older than 13 months anonymous. This is unlike Google who limited their cookie’s lifespan to 18 months but maintains all logged references.
This new mentioned policy is to be implemented “by the end of the year” and […]
As ASK is getting ready for the launch of ASKEraser, its anonymous search tool due out soon, it joined forces with MSN in an effort to create an “industry standard” to better protect consumer privacy. The two, who are more of the “market followers” in the industry joined yesterday and proposed a project which would […]
While Google keeps on getting more and more hear for insisting on keeping surfer’s information infinitely (in Internet terms at least), ASK seems to have gotten the picture and announced today a new search tool which will forget about you altogether, Sort of like “10 Second Tom” from 50 First Dates…
The new tool, called […]
In a response to the many accusation of privacy issues on the Google platform, Google decided to shorten its cookie lifetime from year 2038 to 18 months. This cookie, labeled by Google as the “PREF cookie” is in charge of remembering our personal preferences such as language, amount of results in each SERP, SafeSearch, etc.
From […]
Last week the Privacy International released a study accusing Google of having the “worst privacy” out of all major sites. and before that the European Union released Article 29 Working Party addressing the same issues. The initial response from Google was a statement discounting the accuracy of the study and its findings.
A week later, however, […]
When working with search engines and SEO, it is important to get the cleanest SERPS possible in order to evaluate your work correctly. These SERPS may get seriously skewed due to personalized search reacting to one’s search patterns. While this can be done simply by logging out of Google, it may be a pain in […]
A recent study published by Privacy International says it “found numerous deficiencies and hostilities in Google’s approach to privacy that go well beyond those of other organizations” and labels Google as an “endemic threat to privacy“. According to the study, this “status” was achieved due to its product diversity and their ability to extract and […]
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Written by Noel Bautista [email] for b5media.
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