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Google Reader Sparks Users' Anger Over Privacy

Dec 27, 2007 9:57 AM CST

Google Reader Sparks Users' Anger Over Privacy

'Shared' items become visible to all contacts

(Newser) - A new Google Reader feature that centralizes a user’s favorite blog and web updates is causing an uproar, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Quietly introduced Dec. 14, the feature makes articles marked "shared" visible to all of a user’s contacts—including anyone they’ve ever spoken...

FTC Okays Google’s DoubleClick Buy

Dec 20, 2007 10:11 AM CST

FTC Okays Google’s DoubleClick Buy

Deal to go forward despite months of antitrust and privacy opposition

(Newser) - The FTC voted 4-1 to approve Google’s purchase of DoubleClick, despite months of lobbying against the deal on privacy and antitrust grounds. The commissioners concluded that the deal "is unlikely to substantially lessen competition,” PC World reports. The $3.1-billion deal has been fought tooth and nail...

Microsoft, Viacom Ally to Check Google

Dec 20, 2007 9:34 AM CST

Microsoft, Viacom Ally to Check Google

Partnership aims to counter search giant's ad growth

(Newser) - Microsoft and Viacom joined forces to counter Google's growth in the ad market yesterday, with a 5-year, $500-million partnership. Microsoft gets audio and video content from Viacom, and is a preferred partner in online gaming. Viacom will switch its ad placement from DoubleClick, which Google is about to buy, to...

Big Sites Fold on Net Gambling

Dec 20, 2007 1:39 AM CST

Big Sites Fold on Net Gambling

DOJ has winning hand in legal battle with Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!

(Newser) - Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo have agreed to cough up $31.5 million to settle Justice Department charges they promoted Internet gambling by accepting advertising from gambling sites for the past 10 years, Reuters reports. The high-tech giants will pay some of that amount in fines, and will create PSAs telling...

Android Bugs Developers

Dec 19, 2007 12:28 PM CST

Android Bugs Developers

Google's mobile phone software is proving to be tough to work with

(Newser) - Google may have millions of answers, but software developers say the company’s ballyhooed mobile phone software, Android, misses the mark. “It’s clearly not ready for primetime,” says one Seattle-based designer who’s struggled for weeks with bugs and poor documentation, reports the Wall Street Journal. He’...

In 'Smartphone Valley,' Telecom Boom Calls

Dec 17, 2007 1:00 PM CST

In 'Smartphone Valley,' Telecom Boom Calls

Computing birthplace draws new industry to Californian shores

(Newser) - Silicon Valley is being reborn as a telecom hub, as phone companies jockey for computing technology and battle to compete with Apple and Google. Nokia, which opened a major research center in Palo Alto last year, has named its first Golden State-based technology chief. It's one of several firms rushing...

To Thine Own Self Be Googled

Dec 17, 2007 5:23 AM CST

To Thine Own Self Be Googled

Number of adults searching themselves online doubles in three years

(Newser) - More Americans are Googling themselves, friends and dates. A Pew study found that 47% of US adult Internet users have looked up themselves using the search engine, compared with 22% in 2002. The study found 53% Googled neighbors, colleagues, or dates—often checking bankruptcy and divorce proceedings, and other public...

Google Takes On Wikipedia

Dec 14, 2007 4:40 PM CST

Google Takes On Wikipedia

Online encyclopedia is in beta testing

(Newser) - The company is developing a collaborative online encyclopedia, called the "knol project," that will allow contributors to earn money by including Google ads on their pages. Google won't edit content, but will give high search ranking to entries it considers high quality, reports CNET. Users will also be...

Chinese Translation Ours, Company Tells Google

Dec 14, 2007 3:24 PM CST

Chinese Translation Ours, Company Tells Google

Beijing outfit wants search engine to pick new Far East moniker, pay damages

(Newser) - A Beijing company has sued Google over the search engine’s Chinese name, insisting it registered “Guge” first—and that the Californians should pick a new Far East handle. Beijing Guge Sci-Tech says it claimed the name in April 2006, while its nominal American competition didn’t make its...

'American Idol' Most-Watched Show of 2007

Dec 13, 2007 1:06 PM CST

'American Idol' Most-Watched Show of 2007

Super Bowl again is top single broadcast in Nielsen year-ender

(Newser) - Nielsen released its top-10 ratings for everything from TV to consumer goods this week. Once again, "American Idol" was the most-watched regular show, while the Super Bowl drew the most viewers for a single event. Although "Lost" didn't rank among the top 10 shows during its regular airings,...

Bebo Adopts Facebook-Style Ad Platform

Dec 12, 2007 5:37 PM CST

Bebo Adopts Facebook-Style Ad Platform

UK's top social networker vies for industry compatibility

(Newser) - Bebo, the most popular social networking site in Britain, announced today that it will launch an application platform modeled on that of Facebook, GigaOm reports. The launch is the result of a collaboration with its US counterpart, so that developers of Facebook apps will be able to port their work...

Quite Literally, Chinese Aren't Saying 'Google'

Dec 12, 2007 2:43 PM CST

Quite Literally, Chinese Aren't Saying 'Google'

Language barrier keeps search engine a bit player in big market

(Newser) - "Google" is a verb in many dictionaries, but the challenge of pronouncing it in Chinese has spelled trouble for the planet’s biggest search engine. "G-O-O-G-L-E is not a normal Chinese spelling and people don't pronounce it right," one Google exec tells Bloomberg of China, where the...

Ask.com Addresses Privacy Worries

Dec 11, 2007 11:34 AM CST

Ask.com Addresses Privacy Worries

No. 5 search engine says it will erase info within hours

(Newser) - Aiming to establish itself as an innovator, Ask.com is allowing users to have their search requests deleted within hours, the AP reports. The fifth-most-popular search engine with just 3% market share, Ask.com is taking a huge leap toward being the web’s least intrusive search option. "We...

Googler Preps for Lavish Island Nuptials

Dec 6, 2007 8:49 AM CST

Googler Preps for Lavish Island Nuptials

Search giant's co-founder to wed in Branson's private digs before 600

(Newser) - Google co-founder Larry Page didn’t have to use his popular search engine to scout out locations for his upcoming wedding. He just asked his best man, and fellow billionaire, Richard Branson, Reuters says. Page will wed girlfriend Lucy Southworth Saturday on Branson’s private Caribbean getaway, Necker Island. Six...

iPhone Tops Google Search List

Dec 5, 2007 12:28 PM CST

iPhone Tops Google Search List

Fastest-growing US search term in 2007

(Newser) - The iPhone topped Google’s list of fastest-growing search terms this year, reports Reuters. "iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006,” said a Google rep. “It didn’t exist.” The list was dominated by social networking and...

Nielsen Wants Role as Online Video Cop

Dec 5, 2007 10:11 AM CST

Nielsen Wants Role as Online Video Cop

New service will fingerprint programming to prevent video piracy

(Newser) - Television ratings giant Nielsen is getting set to take a new role—video piracy cop. The company says its new service, Digital Media Manager, will fingerprint programming to make sure videos can be posted on Internet sites like MySpace and YouTube only if they have owners' permission, reports the Wall ...

'08 Race Adds Google Pilgrimage

Dec 2, 2007 10:29 AM CST

'08 Race Adds Google Pilgrimage

Candidates embrace chance to flex high-tech cred, even as technology influences campaign

(Newser) - Where Detroit once beckoned to any candidate who would be president, the 2008 field is making increasing pilgrimages to the Googleplex to showcase their tech savvy, reports the New York Times. And YouTube, which didn't even exist in the last presidential election, has launched YouChoose ’08, a modern version...

Google Wants You! - to Help Stop Malicious Web Sites

Nov 30, 2007 1:27 PM CST

Google Wants You! - to Help Stop Malicious Web Sites

Internet surfers can report sites online

(Newser) - Google is enlisting Web users in the hunt for sites hosting malicious code aimed at infecting visitors' computers. The internet giant has created an online form where Web surfers can report suspect sites, says PC World. Google searches that display sites the company believes are malicious show a warning, and...

Google to Bid on Wireless Spectrum

Nov 30, 2007 7:30 AM CST

Google to Bid on Wireless Spectrum

Search giant expected to jump into FCC auction fray today

(Newser) - Google will announce today that it does plan to bid for a slice of wireless spectrum coming up for FCC auction in January, the Wall Street Journal reports. A winning bid would allow it to provide wireless phone and Internet service, to partner with other providers, or to lease out...

Hacker Blitz Infects Web Search Results

Nov 29, 2007 10:50 PM CST

Hacker Blitz Infects Web Search Results

Malicious websites may have fooled Google, Yahoo and MSN

(Newser) - Software security firms believe they uncovered a massive hacker effort earlier this week to "booby-trap" web searches, one which could have rendered Windows and Internet Explorer users vulnerable to fraud. Seemingly innocuous and random search terms, like "Christmas gifts" and "infinity," brought results that included links...