Companies Ask EU Commission To Step In On Google Search Ranking Complaint

The Internet has changed the information landscape and, increasingly, individual users are finding there's no place to hide on the web - or on the street, come to that, as Google's Street View cars may come and sniff you out...

There are a number of similarities between Google and Toyota, the Japanese car manufacturer. A few hours ago, an executive told US congressmen that the world's largest car maker might have grown too fast. Now the European...

The declaration emerged from attempts by publishers in Germany to have copyright law there changed to better protect newspaper publishers.The Hamburg declaration stops short of calling for new rights but did say that it welcomed...

A widely-requested European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on keyword advertising may fail to give businesses in the UK and Ireland the legal clarity it would give to the rest of Europe, a High Court judge has warned.Mr Justice...

Google will use a web user's location in its calculation of the best search results to publish, the company said. It will use a computer's internet protocol (IP) address to whittle down results.Privacy campaigners have been...

Popped down to the IP 08 Expo in London yesterday, mainly to listen to a couple of keynotes from people I trust in the IT industry.Listening to the marketing spiel at the event, however, is fascinating, especially when it comes...

Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were involved in the decision, according to a Google executive. Protesters had said that the link was a legal requirement, but Google had said that it was not prepared to add more words...

Street View allows users of Google's maps to view 360 degree photographs of streetscapes in towns and cities that have been catalogued by Google cameras. The company's distinctive cars with cameras attached were spotted on the...

A small black Opel car with a high roof-mounted camera and a Google logo was spotted by one Flickr user and by Channel 4 News, indicating that Google is gathering data for a London Steet View service.Google confirmed today that...

The deal only applies to the US and Canada at the moment and US authorities have said they will investigate it, but it is likely that European authorities would also examine the deal if it were extended to the EU.The agreement...

But experts say that brand holders might try to fight the policy in court. Google has announced the lifting of a ban on one company buying the right to use another's trade mark to trigger its own advert. The move brings the...

Google News has unveiled a deal with some of the world's leading news agencies to host their content on its own site as a part of its own service. The move is expected to reduce traffic to sites that reproduce news wire...

The internet's major search engines are following Google's lead in limiting their collection of information about web users and their searches. Microsoft, Yahoo! and Ask.com are taking action after controversial policy changes by...

European privacy regulators will expand their investigation into Google's privacy practices to all search engine companies, it has said. The Article 29 Working Party, a committee of Europe's data protection watchdogs, has been...

Google is not bound by the Data Retention Directive when it comes to search engine logs, Europe's data protection committee has said. Google has used the Directive to justify keeping data, but OUT-LAW has learned that the law...