Google’s the Largest Torrent Search Engine, isoHunt Tells Court (Ernesto/TorrentFreak)
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:Google’s the Largest Torrent Search Engine, isoHunt Tells Court — Last month search giant Google got involved in a BitTorrent case for the first time in its history. The company took interest in the ongoing court case between isoHunt and the MPAA, fearing that the standing injunction …
Lost iPhone 5 Update: Police ‘Assisted’ Apple Investigators in Search of SF Man’s Home (Peter Jamison/The Snitch)
Peter Jamison / The Snitch:Lost iPhone 5 Update: Police ‘Assisted’ Apple Investigators in Search of SF Man’s Home — The bizarre saga involving a lost prototype of the iPhone 5 has taken another interesting turn. Contradicting past statements that no records exist of police involvement in the search for the lost prototype …
With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog (Steve Lohr/New York Times)
Steve Lohr / New York Times:With the Bing Search Engine, Microsoft Plays the Underdog — MIKE NICHOLS has a poster on his office wall. It shows the young Muhammad Ali glaring down at a fallen Sonny Liston, the bruising heavyweight who had seemed invincible — until Ali beat him, in 1964, in one of the [...]
U.K. begins search for next cyber warriors – Globe and Mail
The UK’s computer security industry is turning to a series of games and tournaments to try to find people with potential cyber crime-fighting skills in a sign of its desperation to find fresh talent. The government’s Cabinet Office and a number of …
Careful: Google AdWords Phishing Emails – Search Engine Roundtable
Google has confirmed a large email phishing attempt on their AdWords customers over the past day or two. Bindu from the Google AdWords team explained in a Google AdWords Help thread the email going out that is a phishing attempt is titled “We stopped …
AdWords Email Verifications Are Not Phishing Attempts – Search Engine Roundtable
A WebmasterWorld thread had some Google AdWords advertisers being very suspicious over a recent email they received from Google. The email was about verifying your billing email account and some other information. To me and many others that is a clear sign …
Most Say No to Government Regulation of Search Engines (Rasmussen Reports)
Rasmussen Reports:Most Say No to Government Regulation of Search Engines — Most Americans give high marks to Internet search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing and don’t think the government needs to regulate their responses. — The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 77% …
For Ask.com, Foray Into Social Search Points to Mobile (Liz Gannes/NetworkEffect)
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:For Ask.com, Foray Into Social Search Points to Mobile — Ask.com is in the process of reformulating itself, having dropped its algorithmic search offering and laid off 150 employees in November. The company is billing the changes, which came after a community Q&A launch in July …
Google’s “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story (Danny Sullivan/Search Engine Land)
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Google’s “Gold Standard” Search Results Take Big Hit In New York Times Story — The New York Times has a great, detailed story out today about a merchant with an unusual marketing strategy: be mean to customers. Any publicity, even negative publicity, means a win with Google’s ranking algorithms.
Google search index splits with MapReduce (Cade Metz/The Register)
Cade Metz / The Register:Google search index splits with MapReduce — Welds BigTable to file system ‘Colossus’ — Exclusive Google Caffeine — the remodeled search infrastructure rolled out across Google’s worldwide data center network earlier this year — is not based on MapReduce, the distributed number-crunching platform …
