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'Liberating' your data from Google, and what that really means

Posted May 26, 2012 - 7:50 am

If you listen to the growing chorus of online chatter about the company, Google's now-infamous "Don't be evil" slogan is becoming increasingly inaccurate by the day. The company's most recent move--a sweeping change that consolidated most of its privacy policies under a single umbrella--immediately drew umbrage from critics who felt that Google was on its way to taking all the data it has collected from its users through its dozens of services and building an exhaustive dossier on each of us that would be used mercilessly in efforts to sell us things.
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Narrow your Google searches with a custom date range

Posted May 19, 2012 - 7:35 am

Like many folks, I rely heavily on Google Search; I probably use it dozens of times per day. Of course, wonderful as it is, it doesn't always give me exactly the results I'm looking for.
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Google's new Knowledge Graph: three key features

Posted May 19, 2012 - 7:30 am

Google today unwrapped the first part of its efforts to overhaul its search engine capabilities to incorporate more semantic search capabilities. Here are three of its key features.
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Facebook tries to out-Google Google with new search tool

Posted April 7, 2012 - 7:07 am

If, as reported, Facebook is building a search engine to rival Google's, then the competition between the two Internet giants has intensified further.
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Google works to overhaul its search

Posted March 18, 2012 - 7:16 am

Google is planning major changes to its search engine that will make it easier and faster for users to get the information they need.
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With Google out, Twitter inks search deal with Yandex

Posted February 22, 2012 - 7:48 am

Just months after Twitter and Google failed to reach an agreement for Realtime Search, the microblogging site has inked a deal with Russian search engine firm Yandex.
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By the numbers: How dangerous are Facebook, Twitter, and search engines (really)?

Posted December 13, 2011 - 8:08 am

In his presentation titled "The dark side: Measuring and analyzing malicious activity on Twitter and Facebook," Daniel Peck, research scientist with Barracuda Networks, delves into the details of how cybercriminals trap people on social networks. Peck's research also uncovered that user perceptions of social networking security contrasts drastically with actual membership rates, which you can read about in Facebook may be scary, but we love it anyway.
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Google rises, Yahoo drops in U.S. search market

Posted October 11, 2011 - 6:55 pm

After slipping to a two-year low in August, Google inched back up in the U.S. search market.
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Despite slight erosion, Google's search market lead is safe

Posted August 10, 2011 - 4:34 pm

Yahoo and Bing have gained ground on Google in the U.S. search market, but not enough to really matter.
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Accused search hijacker denies all charges except covertly redirecting search

Posted August 10, 2011 - 4:14 pm

Paxfire disputes that it 'hijacks' search requests from ISP customers, gathers personal information and uses it covertly. BAH! It fixes and redirects searches, stores data to improve future searches and gives results enhanced with information from its partners. So there.
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We're outsourcing our memories to search engines

Posted July 15, 2011 - 10:46 am

"Google effect" making it harder for Internet users to remember information, Columbia University researchers say.
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Search engines top vehicle for malware

Posted July 6, 2011 - 8:55 am

Search engines were the most popular vehicle for delivering malware into the Internet during the first half of the year.
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Google redirects Kazakh search traffic

Posted June 8, 2011 - 6:24 am

Google is redirecting visitors to its Kazakhstan site, google.kz, to a page in Kazakh at google.com, after the country's government warned it would begin enforcing a nine-month-old rule requiring .kz domain names to point to servers in the country
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Google discusses search rankings, blocks

Posted June 7, 2011 - 10:02 pm

Warm mangos, Pandas and Alan Greenspan: these were among the wide range of topics that came up during the characteristically humorous keynote by Google’s Matt Cutts at the end of the first day of the Search Marketing Expo in Seattle.
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Google to use authors as search ranking signal

Posted June 7, 2011 - 3:24 pm

Google has started using individual authors not just the publications they write for as one of its criteria for ranking search engine results.
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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo collaborate in search

Posted June 2, 2011 - 2:25 pm

In a rare display of collaboration, Google has joined forces with its search rivals Microsoft and Yahoo in a project intended to improve the Web crawling and indexing of structured data, which often originates in databases and loses its format when converted into HTML.
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Google may have missed mark with search page experiment

Posted May 9, 2011 - 4:53 pm

Google is experimenting with a new look for its search results page, and so far users don't seem impressed.
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So much for Yahoo's 'consumer-friendly' data-retention policy

Posted April 19, 2011 - 10:04 am

It's a shame that Yahoo, in a frantic bid to grow stalled revenue, has decided to join search market leader Google in retaining user data far longer than is necessary.
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Bing guy says Google turns users into pidgin English-speaking search dunces

Posted April 12, 2011 - 12:24 pm

This sounds like it comes straight from the classic Microsoft FUD playbook.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, Bing Director Stefan Weitz accuses search market leader Google of teaching users very bad habits:
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Yahoo to appeal Italian court's ruling on search

Posted April 7, 2011 - 6:29 am

Yahoo is planning to appeal an Italian court's ruling that it should remove links leading to a pirated Iranian movie from its search index.
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Lawmakers question if search engines contribute to piracy

Posted April 6, 2011 - 4:56 pm

U.S. lawmakers explore ways to combat websites engaging in digital piracy.
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Yahoo Search Direct Takes On Google Instant

Posted March 24, 2011 - 9:36 am

Yahoo today unveiled Yahoo Search Direct, a new feature similar to Google Instant that shows search results as you type. The benefit to you: Less typing, fewer clicks, and (hopefully) faster results.
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Three new search engines worth checking out

Posted March 21, 2011 - 8:52 pm

It takes a brave company to set up in business against Google, Bing and Yahoo, but that's what several intriguing startups are doing.
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Consumers must be confused after shifting to Bing from Google

Posted March 4, 2011 - 1:36 pm

Bing searches increase through Yahoo affinity, heavy marketing, and re-tries by users who can't find "Windows" on search.microsoft.com.
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Unholy union of SEO trickeration clears antitrust scrutiny

Posted March 1, 2011 - 5:50 pm

Just when Google thought it was getting a handle on ridding its searches of low-quality content created by content farms, aggregators and SEO-riggers, the marriage of two masters of those dark arts was approved by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
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