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Connecticut AG Declines To Take Google To Court
Google's decision to ignore a Civil Investigative Demand issued by Richard Blumenthal may work out all right for the company.  New Connecticut Attorney General George Jepse...
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Google Edges Bing For Visual Attention
The top three paid positions on Google attract more visual attention than the top three links on Bing, according to a new report from research firm User Centric....
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Yahoo VP Leaving For Groupon
The company that's said to have turned down a $6 billion acquisition offer from Google has now lured an important employee away from the second-biggest name in search.  Mic...
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Is Google Trying To Hide Torrent Results?
The torrent watchdogs of the Internet have a beef with Google’s instant search feature and the way it deals with word “torrent” and related searches (bittorren...
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Google Marks Data Privacy Day
We're not quite sure how the average individual is supposed to celebrate this - don a tinfoil hat and watch a few episodes of The X-Files, perhaps? - but Data Privacy D...
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Facebook: Email Addresses Rolling Out More Rapidly
If you've been waiting for your chance at a Facebook email address, you may get it soon. Somebody asked about them on Quora, and...
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Google Waves White Flag In Real Estate Fight
The people behind sites like Realtor.com, Redfin, and Trulia can breathe a sigh of relief and perhaps throw a party.  They seem to have defeated Google, which announced thi...
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Google Censors “BitTorrent” Suggestions
Early in December, Google vowed to distance itself from...
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Twitter Adds Bing’s Principal Scientist To Employee List
"Principal scientist" is an important-sounding title, and it's hard to imagine any person holding it wouldn't contribute a lot to his or her company.  Unfortunate...
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PayPal VP Of Product Development Moves To Google
Fans of Google Checkout and/or the idea of paying for things with your Android smartphone have reason to cheer this morning: Osama Bedier, the (former) vice president of product...
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Another “Evil” Eric Schmidt Video From Consumer Watchdog
Consumer Watchdog is at it again. The group has been criticizing Google for years, and gained a lot of exposure for some videos it...
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In PR, There’s No Such Thing As A One-Day Story
Yesterday, I wrote about how NBC has handled Keith Olbermann's departure fr...
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Google Leases 100,000 Square Feet Of Space In Venice, CA
Yesterday, Google announced that it intends to hire more than 6,000 new employees this year.  Now, we're starting to learn where the search giant will put some of its worke...
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Trust and the Importance of Repetition
It's that time of year again that we can look forward to the Edelman Trust Barometer which was published today....
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The Hurdles of “Do Not Track”
This week saw announcements from both  Mozilla and Google about browser mechanisms related to online behavioral targeting. Mozilla...
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