Creating stronger privacy controls inside Google. In May we announced that we had mistakenly collected unencrypted WiFi payload data (information sent over networks) using our Street View cars.
We work hard at Google to earn your trust, and we’re acutely aware that we failed badly here. So we’ve spent the past several months looking at how to strengthen our internal privacy and security practices, as well as talking to external regulators globally about possible improvements to our policies. Here’s a summary of the changes we’re now making.First, people: we have appointed Alma Whitten as our director of privacy across both engineering and product management. Her focus will be to ensure that we build effective privacy controls into our products and internal practices. Alma is an internationally recognized expert in the computer science field of privacy and security. Is Android More Open? Google Kicks Kongregate Out of the Marketplace. Google's Android is widely considered the more open and democratic of the two leading smartphone operating systems, whereas Apple is criticized for its allegedly tight control over what apps get accepted into its app store.
Perhaps contrary to that reputation for openness, tonight we learn that casual game service Kongregate has had its gaming app kicked out of the Android Marketplace. Welcome to Google Docs. Henk van Ess: Database of 547 Google ser... Twitter directory ? News from Google. Prediction API - Google Code. APIs. Privacy Center. There are many different ways you can use our services – to search for and share information, to communicate with other people or to create new content.
When you share information with us, for example by creating a Google Account, we can make those services even better – to show you more relevant search results and ads, to help you connect with people or to make sharing with others quicker and easier. As you use our services, we want you to be clear how we’re using information and the ways in which you can protect your privacy.
Our Privacy Policy explains: What information we collect and why we collect it. How we use that information. We’ve tried to keep it as simple as possible, but if you’re not familiar with terms like cookies, IP addresses, pixel tags and browsers, then read about these key terms first. Information we collect We collect information in the following ways: Information you give us. Mobile Privacy Policy. Empowering users to control their privacy. Ericschmidt. Google Brussels TechTalk "Internet Privacy" Alma Whitten: "Your informations and privacy are safe on our Google tools and services" Google. Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products.
These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.[8] Most of its profits are derived from AdWords,[9][10] an online advertising service that places advertising near the list of search results. Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares but control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock.
They incorporated Google as a privately held company on September 4, 1998. An initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. History Google's original homepage had a simple design because the company founders were not experienced in HTML, the markup language used for designing web pages.[29] The domain name for Google was registered on September 15, 1997,[46] and the company was incorporated on September 4, 1998. Growth. Google Analytics. The Google-branded version was rolled out in November 2005 to anyone who wished to sign up.
However, due to extremely high demand for the service, new sign-ups were suspended only a week later. DoubleClick. This article is about the Google subsidiary.
For the computer term, see double-click. DoubleClick is a subsidiary of Google which develops and provides Internet ad serving services. Its clients include agencies, marketers (Universal McCann, AKQA etc.) and publishers who serve customers like Microsoft, General Motors, Coca-Cola, Motorola, L'Oréal, Palm, Inc., Apple Inc., Visa USA, Nike, Carlsberg among others. DoubleClick's headquarters is in New York City, United States.
History[edit] AdWords. Google AdWords is an online advertising service that places advertising copy at the top or bottom of, or beside, the list of results Google displays for a particular search query.
The choice and placement of the ads is based in part on a proprietary determination of the relevance of the search query to the advertising copy. AdWords has evolved into Google's main source of revenue. Google's total advertising revenues were USD $42.5 billion in 2012.[2] AdWords offers pay-per-click, that is, cost-per-click (CPC) advertising, cost-per-thousand-impressions or cost-per-mille (CPM) advertising, and site-targeted advertising for text, banner, and rich-media ads. The AdWords program includes local, national, and international distribution. AdSense. Google AdSense is a program run by Google that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve automatic text, image, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to site content and audience.
These advertisements are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google, and they can generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Google beta-tested a cost-per-action service, but discontinued it in October 2008 in favor of a DoubleClick offering (also owned by Google).[2] In Q1 2011, Google earned US $2.43 billion ($9.71 billion annualized), or 28% of total revenue, through Google AdSense.[3] Overview[edit] History of Google. Google's homepage 1998–1999 This article explores the history of Google, the most widely used web-based search engine.
Early history[edit] Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 2003 The first Google computer at Stanford was housed in custom-made enclosures constructed from Lego bricks.[1] InsidetheMind ofGoogle, Business, Technology, Search Engine, Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks - washingt. The world's largest Internet search company and the world's most powerful electronic surveillance organization are teaming up in the name of cybersecurity.
Under an agreement that is still being finalized, the National Security Agency would help Google analyze a major corporate espionage attack that the firm said originated in China and targeted its computer networks, according to cybersecurity experts familiar with the matter. The objective is to better defend Google -- and its users -- from future attack. Google and the NSA declined to comment on the partnership. GoogleInvest Cambridge University Initiative. Google yesterday announced investment in a number of university research projects across the US. The University of Cambridge however is set to become the only university outside of the US to receive a grant in this round of funding. The investment will go to Cambridge University’s green technology initiative, part of its University Computer Lab project ‘Computing for the Future of the Planet’. Google’s funding will be spread over over three years. but exactly how much will be invested is not clear.
Individual grants will range between $100,000 and $1.5 million, substantially higher than previously grants of only around $50,000 – and Cambridge will reportedly receive a “six figure” sum. The project has four key goals: an optimal digital infrastructure, sensing and optimising with a global world model, reliably predicting and reacting to our environment, and digital alternatives to physical activities. Why Google is working in cahoots with America's spooks. We all know that conflicts can produce some unlikely bedfellows, but as Google continues its battle with the Chinese authorities, it appears that another unlikely alliance is being forged. According to this report in the Washington Post, Google has now turned to one of its fiercest enemies - America's National Security Agency - to try and protect itself from interference.
The NSA - the group charged with conducting surveillance and codebreaking for the US government - is said to be working with Google to help it understand and analyse recent attacks by hackers said to be based in China. On the surface, this might not seem like a big deal - after all, American companies have not been shy about asking the government for help over the last couple of years. Google stands up to White House in row over privacy on web.
The head of the internet search engine Google has vowed to protect the privacy of web surfers against the US government. As Americans delivered a sweeping midterm election defeat for the Republican administration, Eric Schmidt strongly criticised the White House's attitude towards privacy at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, where the world's most powerful internet players are meeting this week to discuss the future of the medium. Earlier this year, Google overturned a government subpoena that attempted to force dozens of internet companies to make available huge banks of data on web users' habits. The government claimed it wanted access to records of internet searches and online activity to help identify suspected terrorists and observe dangerous patterns of behaviour. A federal judge ruled that the move was illegal, and Mr Schmidt said surfers were right to take their anger out on officials.
"This was a complete violation of our users' rights," Mr Schmidt told the summit. Cyber-warfare 'is growing threat' Cyber-warfare attacks on military infrastructure, government and communications systems, and financial markets pose a rapidly growing but little understood threat to international security and could become a decisive weapon of choice in future conflicts between states, the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies warned yesterday.
IISS director-general John Chipman said: "Despite evidence of cyber attacks in recent political conflicts, there is little appreciation internationally of how to assess cyber-conflict. We are now, in relation to the problem of cyber-warfare, at the same stage of intellectual development as we were in the 1950s in relation to possible nuclear war.
" The warning accompanied yesterday's publication of the Military Balance 2010, the IISS's annual assessment of global military capabilities and defence economics. "Moreover, the speed of cyber attacks and the anonymity of cyberspace greatly favour the offence. Defensive measures have already begun. Is Google Planning to Take Street View into Stores? (Updated) How “Open” Is Google Really? Google Begins Phasing Out YouTube Accounts. SURF en Google tekenen driejarige overeenkomst.
Buzz. AndroidApps. China. Streetview. Gmail. Antitrust. Chrome. Privacygroep eist verbod op Google's clouddiensten. One reason Health minister is secretive over paid-for Google ads. Three years ago, the then NPfIT minister Caroline Flint condemned a PR company which had placed pay-per-click keyword adverts with Google. The PR company was working for NHS Connecting for Health on improving the image the of NHS IT scheme, NPfIT. Flint in 2007 promised an investigation into the placing of the ads. She said in a Parliamentary reply that the Department of Health had terminated its arrangement with the unnamed PR company. With the help of Conservative Shadow Health Minister Stephen O'Brien, Computer Weekly discovered that that some of the ads had been a form of spin: when Google searches pulled up articles that put the NPfIT in a negative light, an ad link to NHS Connecting for Health appeared prominently on the first search page.
A Google search on the Public Accounts Committee, which had published a critical report on the NPfIT in 2007, pulled up a NHS Connecting for Health sponsored link, where people were directed to positive stories about the NHS IT scheme. She replied: EU Opens Antitrust Investigation Into Google. Microsoft’s Finger. The European Union has opened an antitrust investigation into Google to look into claims made by three European-based Internet companies. Google Me, Facebook you? Google appears, at the very least, to have run intense research on social networking. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP The latest gossip to fly around the web is that Google is about to throw itself into the social network arena and launch a full competitor to Facebook.
Is Google Watching You? New Plugin Will Let You Know [APPS] Jamie Wilkinson (jamiew) Ventures – Portfolio. Adimab is the first fully integrated, yeast-based antibody discovery platform. Google’s Acquisition Appetite: An Infographic. Why Google Has No Game. Exclusive: Google, CIA Invest in ‘Future’ of Web Monitoring. The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future. The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine “goes beyond search” by “looking at the ‘invisible links’ between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events.” The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down.
Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event. “The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science. But unease has been growing. Recorded Future - Temporal & Predictive Analytics Engine, Media Analytics & News Analysis.
Google search: Political power - Kim Hart. Google’s aggressive tactics have put it on top of the business world, and now the Internet giant is looking to leverage the high profile and sterling connections of its CEO to achieve similar power in the political sphere. Google boss Eric Schmidt is one of the nation’s most politically active business leaders — a man who uses the cachet of the company he leads, as well as his own charisma, to build strategic alliances in the Obama administration and on Capitol Hill. Ads Preferences. Google Alarm interview on CNN. Google Opt Out Feature Lets Users Protect Privacy By Moving To Remote Village. The Word - Control-Self-Delete - The Colbert Report - 8/24/10. Google rolls out real-time Blogger stats for all. Rivals Say Google Plays Favorites.
Google Challenges Five Privacy Orders by Regulator at Spanish Appeal Court. Alleged crackdown shows Android politicking.