Microsoft Asks Google To Censor Bing, U.S. Government In Automated DMCA...
(Great Beyond) Out of the five million DMCA takedown requests Microsoft filed with Google last year, there are probably plenty of legitimate ones involving copyright infringement and protected content....
View ArticleApple & Amazon Top This Year’s Brand Loyalty Survey, Blackberry Hangs On In...
(stevelyon)If there’s anything we want from our products and the brands that provide them, it’s love, true love. Well, maybe not quite that level, but according to the most recent Brand Keys Loyalty...
View ArticleMicrosoft To Offer Ad-Free Version Of Bing For Schools
While both Google and Microsoft’s Bing search engines have “safe search” options intended to let younger school children research reports on things like “backyard drilling” without getting results that...
View ArticleFTC To Search Engines: Do A Better Job Of Labeling Paid Search Results As Ads
A decade ago, the Federal Trade Commission told the major Internet search engines that they should be more transparent about search results that received premium placement because the advertiser paid...
View ArticleBing Adds The Option To Search The Internet With Emojis
For all those moments when the words escape you and you’re thinking strictly in pictures, search engine Bing announced this week that it’s launching a new option to cruise for answers on the Internet...
View ArticleGoogle, Bing To Block Search Result Ads For Unlicensed Payday Lenders In...
(Taber Andrew Bain) Government officials in California found a few unlikely allies when it comes to ensuring online payday lenders aren’t illegally advertising their services to residents online: The...
View ArticleCFPB Asks Google, Bing & Yahoo To Help Stop Student Loan Debt Scams That...
(thisisbossi) The Internet is teeming with scammers, fraudsters, and hustlers determined to part consumers from their money, and as a $1.2 trillion venture, student loans often present an attractive...
View ArticleMicrosoft Now Accepting Requests To Remove Revenge Porn From Bing, Xbox Live...
(Mike Mozart) Microsoft joined the growing list of tech companies taking steps to crack down on so-called revenge porn – the posting of nude photos or videos online without the consent of the subject –...
View ArticleBurned By Too Many Scams, Microsoft Bans Tech Support Ads In Bing Search Results
Imagine if an entire section of the phone book (remember those?) was dominated by fake companies and scam artists. You’d hope the phone book people would wise up and get rid of that section. That...
View ArticleApple Switching From Bing To Google Search Results For Siri, Spotlight Queries
The next time you ask Siri a question or look for something using Apple’s Spotlight feature, the web results you see will be from Google search, instead of Bing. Apple confirmed today to TechCrunch...
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