Recently, at The Art Institute of Chicago, Google announced an expansion of the Google Art Project initiative. The project, which launched in early 2011, initially featured works of arts from 17 museums located throughout the United States and eight European countries. However, the Google Art Project has rapidly grown to a global program that features …
Although many Facebook users already have concerns regarding their privacy, the social network’s large user base combined with the vast amount of data available continues to motivate marketers and researchers to find new uses for the information. Now, the University of North Carolina’s Center for Infectious Diseases team is hopeful that they have found a …
U.S. Democratic Senator Al Franken, who is the chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, recently accused Google and Facebook of blatantly disregarding users’ privacy. Franken stated that he believes Americans’ privacy is an antitrust issue and feels that some technology companies have become immune to normal market pressures. Since consumers …
As Search Engine Journal recently reported, the long-awaited Google Drive is expected to finally launch in the next several weeks. While our recent article suggested that the free storage was going to be limited to a measly 1 GB of free storage, the latest rumor and supporting screenshot (see above) suggest that every user will …
Yesterday, Google launched a new Account Activity feature that provides Google users access to certain reports detailing their usage of Google’s various services. The new service, which will only be available to users who opt in, will provide detailed metrics related to the following: Number of times a user sign-ins Statistics related to Internet browser …
While the US Supreme Court has not yet ruled on the constitutionality of Obamacare, the high court has decided that live-tweeting oral arguments is a violation of the long-standing electronic communications policy. Yesterday, Casey Mattox, the senior counsel for the right-wing Alliance Defense Fund, decided to provide live updates related to the healthcare proceedings on …
Although Search Engine Journal has been covering rumors related to the long-awaited Google Drive since 2006, it appears that Google’s elusive cloud-based storage solution is finally getting ready to launch! According to a recent article by Om Malik of GigaOm, inside sources have confirmed that Google is planning to launch GDrive in early April. However, …
In a recent cyber-defamation case, a Japanese court ordered Google to suspend autocomplete searches queries related to a specific man’s name. The plaintiff has argued that the autocomplete results, which include suggestions related to crimes he did not commit, have caused him to lose a job and prevented him from finding gainful employment. Hiroyuki Tomita, …
Recently, Mozilla announced that they are testing default encrypted Google searches on the Firefox browser. The change, which is expected to reach all Firefox users within the next several months, will severely limit publishers’ analytics data related to how Google searchers are finding their websites. Since approximately 25% of the browser market is controlled by …
According to the Irish analytics firm StatCounter, Google’s Chrome browser recently became the world’s most popular PC browser for one day. The StatCounter data, which is based on visitor information from 3 million websites and 15 billion page views each month, indicates that on March 18th Chrome reached 32.71% usage. Internet Explorer was a close …
