Best of 2013: No 2 – Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare

Facebook’s new Graph Search has potential for finding information about others and targeting, but also raises a lot of privacy questions at the same time

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Best of 2013: No 2 – Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare

Google Agrees To Settle Lawsuit Over Passing Search Queries To Third Parties

Google has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit that stems from two searchers accusing the company of sharing their search queries with third parties without user content or knowledge. As part of the settlement, Google has agreed to pay $8.5 million…

Yes You Are being Spied On, But It’s not the Government we Should look at

james-bondPeople don’t want the government spying on them but at the same time tell the world everything about themselves.

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Yes You Are being Spied On, But It’s not the Government we Should look at

Transparency is not the answer; Privacy is what sets us free

Google Big BrotherThe Silicon Valley elite call for greater transparency, claiming it will free us from governments and enable innovation. But is that actually the case?

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Transparency is not the answer; Privacy is what sets us free

Friday Talk: Andrew Keen about Digital Vertigo

With the latest revelations around PRISM it is interesting to listen to a talk Andrew Keen did a few years ago. He has been criticising the web and especially privacy on the web for quite some time now.

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Friday Talk: Andrew Keen about Digital Vertigo

Spurred By PRISM Scandal, StartPage & Ixquick Surpass 3 Million Daily Searches

Alternative search engines are having a good week, likely thanks to public awareness and concern over data and privacy issues being raised by the PRISM scandal. StartPage and Ixquick, two small search engines from the same company, announced this week …

DuckDuckGo Passes 2 Million Daily Searches

DuckDuckGo, the upstart search engine that hangs it hat on protecting its users’ privacy, hit a new milestone on Monday: its first day with two million direct searches. According to the company’s traffic page, DuckDuckGo saw 2,211,203 direct searches on Monday — up about 400,000…

Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

DuckDuckGo Passes 2 Million Daily Searches

DuckDuckGo, the upstart search engine that hangs it hat on protecting its users’ privacy, hit a new milestone on Monday: its first day with two million direct searches. According to the company’s traffic page, DuckDuckGo saw 2,211,203 direct searches on Monday — up about 400,000…

Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.