Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'privacy'

Yesterday, the blogsophere was abuzz with news that Yahoo will be retaining data for 90 days. At Search Engine Land, Barry explains that "[t]he data policy is not just inclusive of their search data but also their page views, page...

Posted on December 18, 2008 9:47 AM

Due to increasing privacy concerns with Google Maps, Google has decided to blur out all identifying information, including heads and license plates. For example, see the blurred head for an example of the measures Google is taking to protect the...

Posted on September 8, 2008 9:29 AM

Yesterday Google announced that they will utilizing the DoubleClick cookie-based tracking technology to bring more targeted ads and better targeting features to adveristers. You can read most the blog and news commentary via Techmeme. The features are simple: Frequency Capping...

Posted on August 8, 2008 8:13 AM

The National Legal and Policy Center released a compelling report about how Google is not respecting privacy. In one statement, Google said that they take privacy concerns very seriously. The NLPC was troubled when Google “Evangelist” Vint Cerf said "nothing...

Posted on August 5, 2008 9:23 AM

Google Maps Street View feature has always been on the to-do list of privacy advocates. Over a year ago, Google gave us a way to report images to be removed from Google Street Views. Tamar did a great job walking...

Posted on July 29, 2008 8:35 AM

A WebmasterWorld member discusses an interesting scenario regarding Google's requirement to have you log into your Google account when you access any service tied to Google. For example, if you have a Gmail account, you're likely also posting onto Google...

Posted on April 23, 2008 7:38 AM

Another Google privacy discussion has emerged as a result of a Times Online article: Google’s overall goal is to have a record of every e-mail we have ever written, every contact whose details we have recorded, every file we have...

Posted on October 23, 2007 9:30 AM

In response to Google's announcement to anonymize user data after 18-24 months and possibly the response by Ask.com to launch AskEraser and also to anonymize user data after 18 months, Microsoft has taken a similar stance, according to a Reuters...

Posted on July 23, 2007 8:47 AM

After the urging of many Google users and privacy advocates, Peter Fleischer of Google's Global Privacy Counsel wrote in the Official Google Blog that cookies will auto-expire after 2 years, rather than in the year 2038 as was initially intended....

Posted on July 17, 2007 8:59 AM

Since we like reporting about search in forums, we generally wait for the discussion to begin there. As such, earlier this morning, Insomniac (aka Entriple) told Barry about a flaw in Google Video and Barry suggested that it be posted...

Posted on June 12, 2007 12:23 PM

Privacy International released a report this weekend rating Google at the bottom of bottom, in terms of their privacy practices. They even published an open letter to Google over their practices calling for "an apology" for calling this report "a...

Posted on June 11, 2007 7:42 AM

digg_url='http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013780.html'; With the launch of Google Maps Street View, curious users have found some relatively inappropriate images. In a DigitalPoint Forums post, users discuss the impact of Google Maps Street View on privacy. After all, for awhile, you were...

Posted on June 8, 2007 10:37 AM

Yesterday Google announced that they are renaming the "search history" section to "web history" because it is now a more fitting name. Google Search History Expands, Becomes Web History by Danny Sullivan is the ultimate and most detailed write up...

Posted on April 20, 2007 7:39 AM

Big news last night, Google wrote they will be taking steps to further improve our privacy practices. What that means is that after 18 to 24 months, Google will begin to anonymize their sever logs to help protect it a...

Posted on March 15, 2007 7:00 AM

I wrote about it at the SEW Blog yesterday; Techmeme is reporting a huge amount of concern over AOL releasing, then pulling, search logs done by 500,000 users over three months. The purpose of the release was to help search...

Posted on August 8, 2006 10:19 AM