Kiri Rupiah explains how the Google Image search algorithm works to filter image results – and how these results come to reflect white supremacy.
Google’s Eric Schmidt is to meet the European Commission’s antitrust chief amid signs that the search giant will be accused of abusing its position.
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/ 1 September 2011
Google’s Real Name policy embodies a theory that states the way to maximise civility is to abolish anonymity.
Google may cooperate more closely with Facebook and Twitter and believes there is room for multiple social networks.
Google is leaving open the door to more cooperation with social media giants Facebook and Twitter and says there is room for several social networks.
Internet giants, including the bosses of Facebook and Google, have called on countries at the G8 to guarantee free Internet access to their citizens.
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/ 22 January 2011
After slip-ups with search, Street View and Android, it’s clear that Google needs control at the top — and Eris Schmidt is not the man for the job.
Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, has resigned from the board of Apple with immediate effect due to increasing conflicts of interest.
Google’s chief executive said this week that the internet search leader hopes its recently acquired advertising service will aid newspapers.
The internet company Google has defied predictions of economic doom by delivering a 31% surge in quarterly profits, which appeared to vindicate the company’s claims that people will continue searching the web in a recession. Google’s first-quarter earnings jumped from -billion to ,31-billion.
Google expanded its power in online advertising on Tuesday when it completed its takeover of DoubleClick, a move that increases the pressure on rival Microsoft to win its hostile bid for Yahoo!. The merger came after European regulators signed off on the deal, and strengthened Google’s domination of the lucrative online ad business.
Google will not use advertising to support its new internet health service, CEO Eric Schmidt said recently in the search company’s first detailed public comments about a venture raising concerns among privacy advocates. Schmidt said the service is merely a platform for American users to store their medical information.
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/ 12 February 2008
The first cellphones fitted with Google’s Android software platform made their debut at an industry trade show on Monday, a milestone for the internet giant as it looks to dominate the wireless world. A handful of chip makers showed off prototype handsets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
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/ 28 January 2008
Serious concerns were raised in Davos last week about the ability of the Chinese government to spy on the country’s 500-million cellphone users. China’s biggest cellphone company stunned delegates by revealing that the company had unlimited access to the personal data of its customers and handed it over to Chinese security officials when demanded.
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/ 15 November 2007
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told Google employees on Wednesday his meteoric rise in politics mirrored the company’s emergence as the lifeblood of the internet and he surprised his hosts by answering a geeky engineering question.
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/ 17 October 2007
Like a gourmet chef who rarely eats out, Google feeds advertising services to hordes of other businesses while skimping on its own marketing. The recipe has been extremely fruitful. While the internet search leader has sold more than -billion in advertising since 2001, Google has become a household name without buying expensive ad campaigns.