According to the Google Blog, China is playing hardball. When Google said they would no longer censor results, China threatened to shut Google out of China completely. So Goiog did a workaround by redirecting people from Google.cn to Google .hk, sending visitors to the Hong Kong engine for results. Now China says they won’t accept [...]
Google Deemed ‘Blasphemous’ by Pakistan Government?
June 27th, 2010According to the Associated Press, Pakistan leaders are cracking down on ‘blasphemous content’: Pakistan will monitor seven major websites, including Google and Yahoo, to block anti-Islamic links and content, an official said Friday. Seventeen lesser-known sites are being blocked outright for alleged blasphemous material. The moves follow Pakistan’s temporary ban imposed on Facebook in May [...]
And The Winner Is? Google
June 25th, 2010Google’s long and vicious battle with Viacom is at last drawing to an end, as a ruling in favor of a summary judgment threw the match to the search engine. According to Search Engine Land, Viacom had sued YouTube/Google for copyright infringement surrounding the posting of scores of clips of Viacom-owned programming (e.g., Jon Stewart) [...]
Real Time News Reporting in the Financial Sector Under Fire
June 23rd, 2010A popular subscription based website, TheFlyOnTheWall.com, is under fire for reporting news too quickly – and Google and Twitter are leaping to its defense. “With information directly sourced from Wall Street traders, brokers, and institutional investors, theflyonthewall.com effectively delivers relevant, equity news in a concise and timely manner.” The service allows anonymous tipsters to leave [...]
More Street View Scandal – Google Tries to Defend the App
June 22nd, 2010In May, Google admitted they had made a mistake: In 2006 an engineer working on an experimental WiFi project wrote a piece of code that sampled all categories of publicly broadcast WiFi data. A year later, when our mobile team started a project to collect basic WiFi network data like SSID information and MAC addresses [...]













