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Miguel Helft, Google Uses Searches to Track Flu’s Spread , NYTimes online.

See also Google FluTrends and Is there a Privacy Risk?

Otra  nota en el NYTimes  sobre los problemas monopólicos del sistema de Adwords. Un usuario se quejó del incremento del precio de Adwords y de la bajada de tráfico porque su land page no cargaba rápidao.. en fin.. un cambio en el algoritmo de Google y muchos quedan afuera o bajan y otros suben.. no se puede satisfacer a todos…

Un post oficial de Google anuncia que llegaron al billon de urls procesadas…

A Christian group is suing Google over the internet giant’s refusal to take its anti-abortion advertisements. The Christian Institute, a “non-denominational Christian charity”, wanted to pay Google so that whenever the word “abortion” was typed into the popular search engine, its link would appear on the side of the screen. [Daily Mail]

A deadline for Google to turn over documents in the case Viacom v. Google $1 billion copyright lawsuit against the Web search leader has been extended by two months by a federal judge. Google’s attorneys had asked that a March 7 deadline for both sides to turn over documents be postponed by three months because it was wading through 4.5 million documents. [CNET]

CNET: Google spars with Europe…. Se

see also FTC approval

Este es completo reporte (pdf con 187 páginas, 7,8 MB) de H. Maurer sobre los peligros y oportunidades de motores de búsqueda y en especial de Google…Aun no lo lei pero parece ser un excelente trabajo de investigación solo que no entiendo porqué especificamente se menciona a Google y no a otros buscarores. Teoricamente, lo que haga uno pueden hacerlo otros, mas alla del poder de mercado de los mas grandes… Ver Report on dangers and opportunities posed by  large search engines, particularly Google

Ojo Buscador nos informa que la UE sigue con la investigación de Google.

The European Union’s data watchdog will take another few months to decide whether Google or other Web search engines may be violating EU privacy laws, a participant in the watchdog’s meeting said on Wednesday.

In a YouTube video lastig 4 minutes, a googler explains in plain English how the GPP works…