Posts Tagged ‘Google’
Ten blue links may never be less useful than when a person who’s in a hurry is forced to squint at them on the screen of a cell phone. Google’s taken an important step, then, by making the short answers it introduced a month ago available to folks who are on the go.
The New York Times reports that European Union officials have accused major search engine providers such as Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft of violating user’s personal rights by storing private data for too long. The Article 29 Working Party, an EU advisory board made up of 27 European national privacy chiefs issued a letter to the three companies on Wednesday urging them to appoint outside auditors to ensure that practices used to render data collected from individuals anonymously truly removes all links to a person.
Google launched today YouTube’s You Choose 2010 Campaign Toolkit, an updated toolkit designed to help candidates create more effective campaigns and deliver more direct messages.
Google announced today that the Blogger Template Designer — a tool that allows users to customize the look and layout of their blog without knowing HTML or CSS — is now available to the public by default.
Google reached its highest point in search market share for the month of May, according to a revised estimate from comScore. Google reached 66.4 percent, versus 16.6 percent for Yahoo and 10.8 percent for Still, even without the padding, the revised scores show that Bing has increased by about 4 percentage points since its original launch. ComScore’s methodologies are being criticized by analysts, including Broadpoint Amtech analyst Ben Schachter, who wrote in a research note June 10 that the company’s methodology and definitional cahnges may ipact the usefulness of its reported data. 
