Google Defends Search Strategy Against EU Accusations

After what seems like years of wrangling with publishers and authors, Google has finally opened the doors to its mobile library. The search engine behemoth has joined Amazon and Apple in the digital book class but, unlike its...

Google has unveiled a new querying tool that allows users to find out what the number of times any government formally requests information from the search engine giant. The service, which is available at...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will discard withholding of internet search related information in Europe in the coming six months, but only after its competitors, notably Google and Yahoo, agree to the principle of...

The search giant, whose own privacy policies are often controversial, told a senior politician that it supported the idea. Google possesses massive amounts of information on users of its search engine, email, mapping and other...

The head of Europe's privacy watchdogs said that he is still in negotiations with Google about a major data retention dispute and is confident that the search giant will change its policies.Google has claimed its data retention...

Google's purchase of advertising giant DoubleClick has been thrown into doubt by the European Commission, which has announced that it will launch an in-depth investigation into the deal on competition grounds.The decision will be...

Marco Boerries, executive vice president of Yahoo's Connected Life division, made some pretty interesting comments yesterday saying that if Google's Android is open source and free to use, Yahoo (and others) could use it as their...

European data protection officials will not pass verdict on Google's privacy policies until early 2008, an official has said. The Article 29 Working Party met this week and decided to delay issuing an opinion while it widened its...

comScore, Inc. released the first comprehensive study of worldwide search activity, based on data from its qSearch 2.0 service. comScore qSearch 2.0 offers the first panoramic worldwide view of online search activity, providing...

The proposed $3.1 billion merger of search giant Google and online advertising company DoubleClick would lead to "a massive violation of data privacy rights", a German privacy watchdog has warned.The Data Protection Commissioner...

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...

The retention of search engine query data is a security matter and not one for Europe's data protection officials, according to Google's global privacy chief. Peter Fleischer said that its retention of user search data was "just...

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...

Google will shorten the length of time it keeps search data by six months in a proposed compromise with European data protection officials. The company said, though, that it could soon have to reverse its move.Google recently...