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While Google and Bing have spent the past 12 months building social sites and claiming that they’re really good at search, honest, Yahoo have quietly been biding their time.

Buoyed by the recent takedown of MegaUpload, the entertainment industry in the UK have set their sights on the biggest suppliers of pirated material in the world. The search engines Google and Bing.

If you’re currently signed up for a Google Account, the chances are that you’ll have received an email from Google, explaining that they’re changing their privacy policy. We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers [...]

We warned you that this would happen. Despite a last minute plea from the White House that the Stop Online Privacy Act would be stopped in its tracks, some of the internet’s most popular sites are taking a stand against government interference in what they publish.

Bing on the March

16, Jan 2012

It’s not been a good week for Google. First, Google+’s integration into search went down like a lead balloon, then the continuing anti-trust probe announced that they’d be investigating social search, before Rupert Murdoch decided to make the papers by calling Google pirates. So after seven days like that, you can imagine that Google wouldn’t [...]

Yesterday, we mentioned that Google have decided to show you social results when you search Google.com. But only from their own social network. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it took the internet about an eighth of a second to decide that this was a stupid idea.

In their infinite wisdom, Google’s search team have decided that when you search Google.com, you really want to search Google+. So as of today, they’re beginning to drop your social data into your search results.

The BBC are reporting that the world’s favourite search engine has a lucrative sideline in selling knock-off Olympics tickets and mail order cannabis.

A number of internet giants aren’t happy with the “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA) proposed by the US Senate. And they’re planning a blackout in protest. The bill could give copyright holders a number of powers that they’ll be able to use without trial if a website is thought to be in breach of copyright [...]

the strange clicking noise was yesterday, you’ll be happy to find out that it wasn’t a swarm of crickets outside your house. No, it was every SEO in the world tutting loudly after Google was found to have breached Google’s own rules on buying links.


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