We've seen the likes of Yahoo and Google get into bidding wars over becoming the default search engine for Apple's iOS devices. Currently, Google is the default search provider, but the company may need to pay as much as $20 billion to keep things that way. In the fiscal year …
Read More »Google starts granting ‘Right to be forgotten’ requests
Google is now complying with a European Court of Justice ruling made last month, requiring the company to remove specific personal information from search results upon a user's request. Searching for a person on a European Google site will now come with a disclaimer saying that some information may have …
Read More »Torrentz.eu downed by UK IP crime unit
The UK's Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) hasn't been around very long, having only been formed in September 2013, but it's been making waves since its arrival, shutting down torrent and streaming search sites by the bucket load. It doesn't do it with legal precedent mind you, it just …
Read More »If Google goes down, how much web traffic is lost?
Google is one of those companies, that managed to turn its brand name into the generic term for what it does, like bandaids or iPods. It's so embedded in our culture in-fact, that a lot of people don't even know there are alternatives. So it's no surprise that if Google …
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