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Records of Broughton in Buckinghamshire date back to the Domesday Book, the first medieval census--a comprehensive account of hitherto uncollected personal information. Nearly a millennium later, the online search giant [...]

Google's December 2004 announcement to expand its plans to digitize the world's books into scanning collections from five major world libraries in the U.S. and U.K. brought a strong reaction […]

PageRank is a method used by the Google Web search engine to compute the importance of Web pages, whereas, Interaction Information Retrieval (I2R) method is a nonclassical information retrieval paradigm representing a connectionist approach based on dynamic systems. A different interpretation of PageRank, namely a dynamic systems viewpoint, is proposed, by showing that the PageRank method could be formally interpreted as a particular case of the I2R method.

For many cleaning companies, getting ranked on Google has been the best marketing return ever. The cost is minimal and a cleaning company can easily get a dozen calls each [...]

This study offers the search results for links to Cybermetrics, an online journal and shows that search engines won't retrieve every link-page that is indexed by them. It was found, for example, that HotBot concealed 20% to 39% of the links pages for each search and Google concealed 48% to 70%.

Byline: by Andy Greenberg Illustrations by Merijn Hos Benedict Evans THE DIGITAL JUSTICE LEAGUE GOOGLE IS ON A MISSION TO PROTECT THE INTERNET'S MOST VULNERABLE. BUT DOING GOOD IS HARDER [...]

More than 300,000 Chrome browser users have complained to Google about 'ad- injectors', intrusive programs that infect browsers to replace existing ads with unwanted ones. These can pose a security [...]

Google, Inc., Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf this week emphasized that the security and reliability of the Internet was a responsibility shared by users, government, civil society, academic institutions, and [...]

Kent Walker, senior vice president and general counsel at Google, Inc., said on March 6 that the increased use of encryption technologies by data and network service providers is a [...]

An advisory panel formed by Google, Inc., has told the company that it was appropriate for Google to apply only in Europe a European court ruling requiring it to remove [...]

Consumer Watchdog has written to Google, Inc., requesting that the company offer the same privacy protections to users in the U.S. that it has been required to provide in Europe [...]

The site's owner, Google, promises to review video views in an attempt to become more transparent. Google is getting serious about its video offering on YouTube, striking deals with partners [...]

NUMBER of requests to have unflattering or personal information removed from Google search results since the European Union adopted the 'right to be forgotten' law in 2014. The law forces [...]

The business of personal data is booming and the web giants will stoop pretty low to get hold of yours. If only they put half as much effort into showing [...]

Facebook and Google face a backlash, from users and regulators alike, over the way they have handled sensitive data JENNIFER STODDART, Canada's privacy commissioner, is furious with Facebook. In August [...]

NASA will deploy an unmanned airplane to help in the battle to contain wildfires raging through Southern California. NASA announced Wednesday that the Ikhana would take off from Dryden Flight […]

Microsoft is promoting information about its search data privacy policy as questions arise regarding how much personal information search engines and Web sites should collect, and how that data is […]

In keeping with Google's ongoing effort to balance privacy concerns with data retention requirements and its own concern for quality of service, Google said yesterday that it plans to shorten […]

On the heels of Privacy International's damning assessment of Google's privacy practices earlier this week -- one that Google characterizes as inaccurate -- Google Tuesday announced a new policy to […]

"Let me state here on the record that in the 17 years of our existence, no company has ever made such a claim," Davies said in the letter. "Privacy International […]

Google will try to cleanse identifying information from its search data, a major policy change around the contentious issue of how Internet companies treat data on people's online activity. Google […]

Google on Wednesday announced a change in its privacy policy. Rather than keeping data about user interactions with Google properties as long as it's useful, the company plans to anonymize […]

NEW YORK -- Google's release of a wide-ranging database product, in which users can enter a variety of information, has potentially far-reaching implications for advertising, according to an industry analyst. [...]

An email from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and a related memo from Ray Ozzie, one of the software giant's three chief technology officers, have been leaked onto the Web. The […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) -- Google Inc.'s Internet-leading search engine on Thursday will begin serving up the entire contents of books and government documents that aren't entangled in a copyright […]

Employees of the search engine, Google, are getting ready to scan books given by the University of Michigan, Harvard and Stanford and making digital copies, which will then be made accessible and searchable to the 80 million Internet users. Five major publishers, working through their trade group, the Association of American Publishers, sued in a New York federal court to stop Google as they feel that by making electronic copies, the search giant is committing massive copyright infringement.

Google Inc. on Thursday said it would add information outside of generally accepted accounting principles to its quarterly earnings announcements, in order to prevent confusion with Wall Street analyst reports. […]

Wikipedia does a good job telling you were the Mentawai Islands are, but it isn't much good at giving you a map of the location. Placeopedia is looking to solve […]

Google says it won't manually manipulate its search results, even when pranksters push unwarranted links to the top of the results list with so-called "googlebombing" tactics. The most recent embarrassment […]