European citizens grabbed the opportunity to request erasure their embarrassing activities of their past from Google search results!
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Google’s ‘right to be forgotten’ form goes live in Europe
People can now get their embarrassing activities in the past stripped from Google search results.
Google wipes off Rapidgator URLs from its search results
The dark side of DMCA takedown requests shows its presence yet again.
Yahoo keen to replace Google on Apple devices?
Latest report claims that Yahoo’s Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is trying to persuade Apple to ditch Google for Yahoo as the default search engine on iOS devices. According to the Re/code report,…
New internet search engine ‘ChinaSo’ launched in China
Some of China’s leading news organizations on Friday launched Chinaso.com, a new Chinese-language Internet search engine. Operated by ChinaSo IT Corporation the new search engine is founded by China’s seven main news…
Google faces $5 billion fine by Competition Commission of India
Google may be fined a whopping $5 billion by the Competition Commission of India (CCI), India if the ongoing antitrust investigation finds the search engine giant guilty of violating competition norms of…
Joaquin Almunia: No Gentlemen’s agreement with Google
The European Union has not entered so called ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ with Google, the European Commission’s competition chief said on Friday. Joaquin Almunia, while addressing an antitrust conference, defended the recent investigation settlement…
Rivals: Google’s settlement proposal to EU should be subjected to market testing
Google’s proposal in the ongoing anti-trust investigation was accepted by the EU; however, lobbying groups FairSearch and iComp are of the opinion that the proposal should be subjected to market testing to…
Bing Chinese search results raise censorship concerns
A latest research by Chinese Web monitoring service GreatFire.org expresses concerns that Microsoft’s search engine Bing filters results for Chinese-language searches for users not only in China, but also worldwide. Tests by…
Google’s proposal for comparable display search results accepted by European Commission
The three year old antitrust case between Google and European regulators is nearing a settlement whereby the former has finally agreed to demarcate advertisements and provide rivals greater screen space for their…
Yahoo planning its own search engine?
Yahoo, which currently uses Bing search technology to power its search engine, is looking out for an alternative and may break up its “Search Alliance” with Microsoft, new reports have claimed. According…
Google tweaks search engine to help users ‘find the right result’
Google, with its new update, will help its search engine users find more information about the source of a link in the search results before actually clicking on the link. The search…
Yahoo search is now secure
Yahoo, keeping with its CEO Marissa Mayer’s promise from 2013, has begun plugging security holes that it discovered ahead of its self-imposed Q1 2014 deadline, starting Wednesday. In a nutshell, now all…
Facebook agrees to share public data of users with Yandex
Social networking giant, Facebook and Russian search engine giant Yandex have signed an agreement under which Yandex will be given access Facebook user’s data. As a part of the deal, Facebook will…
Google, Microsoft take a stand against online child pornography
Google and Microsoft have decided to take strong measures against online child pornography considering the alarming rate at which photos and videos containing child pornography are proliferating on the Internet with plans…