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Google changes its search formula to address piracy
Los Angeles Times
Hoping to mollify its entertainment industry critics,Google Inc.is tweaking its search engine to penalize websites suspected of hosting pirated music, videos, games and other copyrighted content. The change was viewed as a concession to movie studios, ...
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In Google's Privacy Settlement, Tech Giant Denies Liability (Again)
Huffington Post
Those are the terms Google agreed to in its record-breaking settlement with the Federal Trade Commission, which announced Thursday it had penalized Google for the second time in a year for violating privacy promises made to its users. Google's failure ...
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Google Nexus 7 is (almost) the only device I need
CNET
I've had a Google Nexus 7 tablet for a little while now, and I'm a bit worried that my hands may soon just merge with the slick touch screen, transforming me into a 21st century Inspector Gadget. Unlike previous Android tablets and my much-scorned Nook ...
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Google's Changing The Algorithm Again: This Might Not Be A Good Idea
Forbes
Under a certain amount of pressure Google has announced that starting next week it will be changing the ranking algorithm. The aim is that those who are presenting other people's copyrighted material will turn up lower down in the search results. But ...
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For Google spouses, there's a financial afterlife
Los Angeles Times
If a Google employee dies, his or her spouse or domestic partner gets a financial afterlife. The survivor receives a check for 50% of the employee's highest salary every year for 10 years. Also, the employee's stock vests immediately and his or her ...
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Los Angeles Times
Microsoft's Place in the Apple-Google War
DailyFinance
In the ongoing war between industry giants Apple (NAS: AAPL) and Google (NAS: GOOG) , old Microsoft finds itself shoved to the side by these fellow tech titans. With the burgeoning growth of mobile platforms and the slow decline of the PC, Microsoft ...
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Google Caters to Copyrights
Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. said its search engine would begin to penalize websites suspected of improperly posting copyrighted material, a gesture meant to succor media companies that have long complained about the issue. In a post Friday on Google's blog, Amit ...
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Is It Safe to Google "Kristen Stewart?" How Hackers Target Celebrity Gossip
Huffington Post (blog)
Google and Microsoft's Bing search engine are aware of this tactic -- and they've tried to engineer protections into the search systems that prevent this -- but blackhat SEOers still manage to game the system, albeit for a shorter period of time than ...
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So what the heck is cloud computing?
CBS News
Most people use a form of cloud computing everyday, but the term has yet to become engrained in the mainstream lexicon. So what the heck is cloud computing? Think of the cloud as a disk drive that is owned by a company like Google or Apple, which ...
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Google's new plan to fight piracy draws skepticism
CNET (blog)
Google announced on the company's blog today that sites that generate too many take-down notices will find themselves pushed down in the search rankings. Takedown notices are the documents that owners of copyrighted material file in order to request ...
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Google doodles London 2012 closing ceremony
IBNLive.com
New Delhi: With the view to bid farewell to the London 2012 Olympics, Google is going to come up with the London 2012 closing ceremony doodle, which is apparently the last Google doodle this Olympics, on Sunday. It is the seventeenth doodle by Google ...
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Google Releases New Web Development Aids
PCWorld
Google released two new internally authored technologies this week that could help ease the burdens of Web developers. One is a tool for spotting memory leaks in JavaScript code, and the other is a library written in Dart for accessing popular Google ...
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Google talks of Wi-Fi availability
Kansas City Star
Yet the breadth of any Google Fiber Wi-Fi network will ultimately be determined by people controlling public buildings such as schools and libraries that get free connections from the company. In fliers sent out to neighborhoods where Google is now ...
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Google and Other Key Players Band Together to Form Mobile Payment Committee
Mobile Magazine
The mobile payment revolution is just around the corner, with companies like Google and Apple both getting behind the technology. While the revolution is coming closer, it will need guidance and direction if it's going to truly take off. In order to ...
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Under Copyright Pressure, Google to Alter Search Results
New York Times (blog)
Google said that beginning next week its algorithms would take into account the number of valid copyright removal notices Web sites have received. Web sites with multiple, valid complaints about copyright infringement may appear lower in Google search ...
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Google praised for move to penalize sites hosting pirated content
Los Angeles Times
Hollywood and other content owners, whose relationship with Google is fitful at best, gave the Silicon Valley search company rare praise Friday for its move to penalize websites that have been flagged by copyright holders for potentially hosting ...
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Google's search engine becomes new antipiracy weapon
CNET
This appears to be among the most significant antipiracy measure Google has ever adopted. The company's powerful search engine is the route through which most people on the planet conduct Internet searches. For the past two years, Google has made ...
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Lost Egyptian pyramids found by Google Earth
GlobalPost (blog)
A Google Earth satellite imagery survey may have found two pyramid complexes in Egypt, Discovery News reported. The sites, which are located about 90 miles apart, contain unusual groupings of mounds with intriguing features and orientation, satellite ...
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Google to Demote Sites With 'High Number' of Copyright Complaints
PC Magazine
Singhal insisted that Google will not remove websites from search entirely "unless we receive a valid copyright removal notice from the rights owner." The search giant will also continue to provide counter-notice tools to those affected in case they ...
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Google Now Is Watching You
PC Magazine
I've been getting friendly with the newest features of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone, including a feature called Google Now. On the new start slider, when bringing the phone to life, you can slide to the right to go to the phone itself. If you go to ...
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Google to de-emphasize websites that have high numbers of copyright take ...
Washington Post
The Motion Picture Association of America issued a lukewarm response, saying it was "optimistic" the change would help steer consumers away from piracy. "We will be watching this development closely — the devil is always in the details," MPAA senior ...
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Google to downgrade pirate sites in search results
The Associated Press
This year, Google joined other Silicon Valley heavyweights to help kill legislation that would have given government and content creators more power to shut down foreign websites that promote piracy. The Motion Picture Association of America issued a ...
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Google tweaks search to pinch piracy: MPAA optimistic, but notes "devil is in ...
Chicago Tribune
"This ranking change should 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," wrote Amit Singhal, senior VP engineering at ...
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Google search to be anti-piracy enforcer
Politico
Announcing the new policy Friday on its blog, Google said that sites with "high numbers" of "valid" removal notices would be affected as the search company tries instead to "help users find legitimate, quality sources of content more easily — whether ...
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Politico
Google Algorithm Changes For June, July Finally Released
WebProNews
[project codename "Image"] We've updated a signal for Google Images to help return more on-topic image search results. #82743. [project codename "Answers"] Changes to the calculator feature to improve recognition of queries containing "and," such as [4 ...
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How YouTube Will Escape Google's New Pirate Penalty
Search Engine Land
The penalty — which we've dubbed the Emanuel Update — impacts Google's web search results. If someone has reported a web search listing as being a copyright violation, using the DMCA takedown mechanism, that's a strike against the entire site.
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Search Engine Land
Google fights piracy with search
Washington Post
In a statement of its own, the Motion Picture Association of America hailed the decision and said it was "optimistic that Google's actions will help steer consumers to the myriad of legal ways for them to access movies and TV shows online." Related ...
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Google Makes Searching for Illegal Content More Difficult After Pressure From ...
U.S. News & World Report
Google announced Friday that the search giant would "better prioritize legal content," making it more difficult for Internet users to find pirated content through the site. The company bowed to pressure from the Motion Picture Association of America ...
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U.S. News & World Report
Google helps Bluffs students go high tech
Omaha World-Herald
Chris Russell, operations manager for Google's Council Bluffs data center, said the company's goal is to help students gain experience and get excited about pursuing careers in the tech field after college. A similar grant funded a mobile phone ...
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Google Unveils Search Changes to Curb Access to Pirated Content
Bloomberg
Entertainment companies have been pressing Google for years to take steps to make pirated content harder to find. The new system will use "removal notices," or complaints from entertainment companies, that a website has received in ranking search ...
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Blogs14 new results for Google
 
An update to our search algorithms - Inside Search
By A Googler
Inside Search. The official Google Search blog. Search This Blog. Loading... Site Feed · Add to Google ... More blogs from Google. Visit our directory for more information about Google blogs. Feedback? Do you want to comment on a post or ...
Inside Search
Google Updates Its Search Algorithm: Will Start Punishing Sites With ...
By Frederic Lardinois
Google provides search and advertising services, which together aim to organize and monetize the world's information. In addition to its dominant search engine, it offers a plethora of online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Maps, YouTube ...
TechCrunch
Google moves to combat piracy in search results — paidContent
By Laura Hazard Owen
Google will tweak its search algorithm to push pirated content further down in search results -- a move welcomed by the film and music industries.
paidContent
Today's Scuttlebot: Google as Samsung's Little Helper, and Sign ...
By By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The technology reporters and editors of The New York Times scour the Web for important and peculiar items. Friday's selection includes sign-language music on YouTube, an exodus at Facebook and American state stereotypes. Read more...
NYT Bits
Google to Lower Web Sites' Ranking Based on Alleged Copyright ...
By Whitson Gordon
It's unclear exactly how this will play out, but one possible (and problematic) scenario: we may start to see a lot less of BitTorrent and file sharing sites on Google, even when we're searching for something legitimate. Hit the link to read more.
Lifehacker: Google
Secure your Google Account with two-step authentication ...
By Andy Wolber
Two-step authentication significantly increases the security of your Google account and it takes less than three minutes to setup.
on TechRepublic
Google to downrank sites hit by valid copyright claims -- Engadget
By Terrence O'Brien
Google has been dogged by claims that it facilitates the piracy of content through its search results pretty much since day one. Starting next week, the.
Engadget
Google Starts Punishing "Pirate" Sites In Search Results | TorrentFreak
By Ernesto
Google announced today that it will lower the search engine rankings of websites that receive a high number of DMCA takedown requests, independent of whether the linked content is lawful or not. The algorithm change is the result of ...
TorrentFreak
Tech at Night: Google punished for hacking Safari Do Not Track ...
By Neil Stevens (Diary)
So the FTC is on a tear. Google is officially smacked for $22.5 million for hacking though Safari's privacy protections to sell Safari users' information to.
RedState
Goofing Off on a Google Doodle: How Downtime Helps Us Work Better
By Chris Taylor
As many productivity experts will tell you, building a good chunk of downtime into your day isn't just helpful in recharging yourself and your creativity. It's essential.
Mashable!
Watch out, pirates: Google's new search changes target copyright ...
By Ricardo Bilton
With a tweak to its search algorithm, Google's waters are about to become a bit more unfriendly to pirates.
VentureBeat
New Google Search signal: copyright removal notices
By Martin Brinkmann
This is how big companies start to lose their edge. They get distracted from their core mission which is to excel at providing a service to their users. The distractions are small but numerous and ultimately it leads to enough loss of focus to allow ...
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Good Deal: 45 albums for $2.99 on Google Play | The Verge
By Dieter Bohn
Albums. In your heart of hearts, you know you should be listening to the whole damn thing instead of just your favorite track. You also suspect that they don't make 'em like the used to. Well, you...
The Verge - All Posts
Google Translate Now Reads Text From Images | Geekosystem
By Sui Ying Teoh
In its latest update, Google Translate for Android went Goggles, and brought us the ability to translate words from photos. Which makes perfect sense, because if you can't read it, odds are you probably can't type it. Here's how you use it.
Geekosystem

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