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Diet Google: DuckDuckGo Dinged by Privacy Ratings Service for Lack of Transparency
DuckDuckGo, the search engine that bills itself as a privacy-centered alternative to Google, but appears to censor conservative news to an even greater degree than its giant competitor, has been dinged by a privacy ratings service for lacking transparency.
Report: Google Has Received Over 2.4 Million European Requests to Be ‘Forgotten’
Google has received over 2.4 million requests from Europeans exercising their “right to be forgotten” from the Internet, according to a report.
Report: Keeping Search Engine Data for Long Periods Doesn’t Improve Results
Despite the fact that search engines such as Google keep user search data for long periods of time, the data retention does not improve search result quality, according to a report.
FTC Leak Suggests Google Searches are Biased, Discriminatory
In what is sure to lead to a customer scandal and heighten a U.S. Antitrust Probe, Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staffers determined in an undisclosed report that Google, Inc. allegedly used an algorithm to manipulate search results to favor their own less relevant search over competitors. The alleged Google fraudulent practice only became public when FTC staffers inadvertently shared the document with the Wall Street Journal.
Google Develops System For Ranking ‘Trustworthiness’ Of Websites
Google is floating a trial balloon that needs to be shot down: an algorithm that would rank web pages based on their “trustworthiness” by automatically detecting and tabulating “false facts” on each web page.
A Few Cracks Appear in the Google Search-Engine Monolith
Is the search-engine market ready for a little dash of creative destruction? We’ve grown accustomed to a landscape dominated by the formidable Google mountain, their company name becoming the preferred euphemism for the very act of using a search engine.