Google: Many Popular Sites Will Escape Pirate Penalty, Not Just YouTube
Search Engine Land
So how many infringements in total will YouTube face, beyond the tiny 650 URLs removal requests filed through the Google Search system over the past year-and-a-half? Google still refuses to give a specific number, telling me only that it's “magnitudes” ...
Search Engine Land
Google to include people's Gmail in search results
NorthJersey.com
SAN FRANCISCO — Google is creating an information bridge between its influential Internet search engine and its widely used Gmail service in its latest attempt to deliver more personal responses more quickly. The experimental feature unveiled ...
Review: Android's "Google Now" can teach Siri a few tricks
Ars Technica
You can use the speech interface to dictate an e-mail or text message, search Google, perform a calculation or unit conversion, get the definition of a word, get a stock quote, search the platform's built-in addressbook, set an alarm, play a song, get...
Ars Technica
Google Olympics Doodles Imaginative, Interactive
PCWorld
Google's doodles during these Olympics have ranged from tributes to athletes to collections of different sports. Some have been interactive. Others have harkened back to earlier times in history. You'd have to live in a cave or under a rock to not know ...
Google antipiracy measure skips YouTube, says report
CNET
Google's search engine becomes new antipiracy weapon · Google's new plan to fight piracy draws skepticism · Gizmodo's Eric Limer believes there are two ways to look at this: 1) Google is playing favorites, or 2) Google is "just rewarding YouTube for ...
Google to sink pirate websites in search rankings
DAWN.com
SAN FRANCISCO: Google on Friday said it is tweaking its search formula to give higher priority to legal content and sink rankings for websites hit with piracy complaints. “Starting next week, we will begin taking into account a new signal in our...
DAWN.com
Google Announces Plan To Better Prioritize Licensed Music Online
Music Indistry News Network
Google announced that it will "update" its "search algorithms" to "help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily—whether it's a song previewed on NPR's music website, a TV show on Hulu, or new music streamed from Spotify." It is a ...
Content Creation Post-Penguin and Panda
Business 2 Community
The Internet has changed over the last few years and in the new Panda and Penguin based searchworld and content is more important and more integral to gaining rankings in Google than ever before.
Google updates search algorithms; which is bad news for piracy sites
Afterdawn.com
Reads Google's post: We aim to provide a great experience for our users and have developed over 200 signals to ensure our search algorithms deliver the best possible results. ... WTF, does Googlethink its only search engine available on the internet?
Google's new search policy leaves free Internet advocates worried
SlashGear
It wasn't too long ago that Google was at odds with the MPAA and RIAA, as the search giant stood against SOPA, a bill which the MPAA and RIAA both loved. Now, however, Google is understandably caught between a rock and a hard place. PCWorld reports ...
Google's Caving To Copyright Holder Demands May Signal A New Round Of ...
DecryptedTech
According to information we have about the changes Google will automatically reduce the searchranking for sites with too many “valid” DMCA takedown notices. This is in addition to actually removing the URLs listed in the takedown notice. Google has ...
Google to Drop Pirate Sites in Search Rank
HispanicBusiness.com
This marks Google's latest concession to copyright owners, who have long demanded the company take steps to prevent its search engine from aiding copyright infringement, CNET reported Friday. The intent of the change, Googlesaid, ... "This ranking ...
HispanicBusiness.com
Gmail results in Google Search now available to some field trial participants
The Verge
One of Google's bigger announcements at its search-focused event earlier this week was the integration of personal Gmail content into Google Search — users will soon have the option to see Gmail results integrated right alongside other search results.
Google's search chief says firm has found 'better place' for Google+ results
Newstrack India
Earlier, Google was slammed by Facebook, Twitter and Myspace, after some changes made to itssearch engine ended up promoting Google+ content at the expense of other results, not long after the social network was launched. Singhal admitted that ...
Google testing adding Gmail results to users search
News Pakistan
Google vice president, Vic Gundotra, vice president of the company and head ofsearch, believes that leadership depends on the speed of response and has hinted at scanning the emails despite the continuing controversy of the element. In the latest ...
News Pakistan
Mexicanos Well Remembered in the Ozark Lake Best Dining List Edition
Equities.com
Mahvrick Best Dining List is has the number 1 Google.com search position over some of the best known names in the business. The Google search category has well over two hundred fifty millionsearch results. Best Dining List, owned by Mahvrick is ranked ...
Google Appeases Hollywood But Rankles Internet Freedom Watchers
PC World India
The Motion Picture Association of America has praised the Internet search leader's announcement on Friday, while some advocates of Internet freedom have panned it or had a lukewarm response. Every so often, Google ... "Google -- now a content ...
Please please me, Google Search
Kipp Report
Receiving lower search rankings and search engine presence is a nightmare for many companies and online portals all around the world, especially those that rely on organicsearches from Google as one of their major sources of traffic. Typically, the ...
Kipp Report
Google Search Ranks Pirate Sites Lower
The Droid Guy
Google's search engine has become the latest significant antipiracy weapon.Google announced in its company blog that it's taking on piracy this time by penalizing sites that have been receiving many complaints from copyright owners. Sites that appear ...
The Droid Guy
Google Introduces Siri-like Voice Search Features forAndroid and iOS
The Droid Guy
This was announced in an event Google had held in San Francisco, California wherein they also revealed that they answered 100 billion searches a month, an incredible number that made Google as the top search engine in the entire world. Google also had ...
The Droid Guy
YouTube may escape Google's punishment for too many DMCA take-downs
VentureBeat
So where does Google come into play? The company, whose highly-ranked search engine results drive tons of traffic to websites every day, will push websites with too many DMCA take-down noticed lower in that rank. You can see which sites have the most ...
VentureBeat
Google Adds Death Benefits to Employee's
The Droid Guy
Bock had said that in the case of a U.S employee of Google pass away while under Google'semployment of the 14-year old search engine, their spouse or domestic partner will be receiving a check for 50% of their salary every year for the next decade of ...
Google sets new engagement standard
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
Google has once again taken the lead to break that stereotype and put “Boots on the Ground” to engage communities in their own success by providing tangible and usable talent and programs for communities across Iowa and the United States. Utilizing its ...
The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)
Google doodle pays tribute to end of 2012 Olympics
GMA News
Internet giant Google Inc. on Sunday paid what could be its last tribute to the 2012 Olympics, with a doodle marking the Games' closing ceremonies. Visitors to Google's homepage (www.google.com) were greeted with a doodle featuring athletes in ...
App Review: Google Translate 2.5
Mobile Magazine
... change all the much in this aspect. The only significant change to this part of the service is that you can now type words like “hello” and instantly the tool will give you a translation on-the-fly, similar to searching a term through Google's ...
Google faces Norway fine - Today's Technology News
San Francisco Luxury News
Collecting the data “violated the privacy rights,- it was processed without consent and wasn't deleted as the agency requested, the regulator said in the August 7 notice to the operator of the world's largest Internet search engine. “This is one of the ...
Google to push pirate sites down search results
Radio 1
The world's biggest search engine announced the change in a blog post. The move has been welcomed by record companies in the UK and Hollywood film studios. Movie and music firms have complained in the past that Google should do more to fight piracy ...
Radio 1
Guest commentary: How Google could improve financial markets
STLtoday.com
Sixteen years ago, the founders of Google — computer scientists Larry Page and Sergey Brin — introduced an algorithm to measure the "importance" of Web pages relative to any set of keywords. Known as PageRank, it works on the notion that Web pages ...
Google to demote pirated content
The Age
Google says it will introduce changes to its search engine that will discourage piracy by placing legitimate copyrighted content higher in online queries. The company will begin using algorithms this coming week that push potentially pirated material ...
Hong Kong: Google Search Engine Sued for Defamation - Global ...
By Oiwan Lam
Albert Yeung Sau-shing, the Chairman of Emperor Group in Hong Kong is suing Google Inc for defamation. He claimed that when searching his name, both in Chinese and English, in Google's search engine, there are listed items that defame ...
Global Voices Advocacy
'Search Plus Your World': Google no longer pushing Google+ results ...
By Steffen Konrath
Telegraph :: In an interview with the Telegraph Google's search chief, Amit Singhal, has said the company has found a “better place” for Google+ results after criticism by Facebook and Twitter that it was unfairly promoting its own social ...
:: Future of Journalism
Google's Opaque New Policy Lets Rightsholders Dictate Search ...
In short, without details on how Google's process works, we have no reason to believe they won't make similar, over-inclusive mistakes, dropping lawful, relevant ...
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