Google blocking links to suspected child porn from search results
In an open letter published by the Daily Mail, Schmidt said a team of 200 Google staffers have been working with a new technology to prevent links to child porn from appearing on the company's search engine. "While no algorithm is perfect — and Google …
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Google agrees to pull Maps sat pics of 14-yr-old shot dead in 2009
Google has said it will delete some of the images on Google Maps after the family of a murdered teenager saw his body on the system's satellite photos. Kevin Barrera was 14 when he was shot to death on the way home from school in the San Francisco's …
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Google WILL wriggle away from Euro probe… but THEN what?
Analysis Google seems on course to win an remarkable victory over competition regulators in Europe. The deal could potentially seal in Google's dominance over the search business for five years, forbidding further prohibitive action against it – and …
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Google agrees to pay states million in browser privacy…
Google has entered into a $ 17 million settlement with 37 states and the District of Columbia after the company was found to circumvent privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser. Between 2011 and 2012, Google secretly stored web tracking cookies in …
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Google-Backed Calico Makes Big Biotech and Genetics Hires
Calico, the company founded to extend lifespans that's funded by Google and led by former Genentech CEO and current Apple Chairman Art Levinson, said today that it's made some hefty hires. Hal Baron, who led product at Hoffmann-La Roche, is coming on …
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