European Union's data protection advisory group sent a letter to Google this month asking why the company keeps records of user searches for up to two years.
When human-powered search engine Mahalo launched in alpha earlier this month, comparisons to Google Search were inevitable. In reality, Mahalo is to Google like pie is to brussels sprouts. They're both food, but pie is much more fun to eat.
...The search for data that does not yet exist becomes metadata that helps to create the new data it is proleptically about. The instrument created to search the Net replicates the Net over and over. Is the Internet different because of this?
Google just upped its stalker factor by adding face recognition to its image search; by appending a query string onto the end of a search URL ("&imgtype=face"), results contain ONLY faces.
Not wanting to be included in Google's master database of highly personalized profiles, James Thomas decides to go it alone (well, with Yahoo, Ask, other services)...and here's the saga....
"Well, I've been buying Google search terms for about two years now, but the price keeps going up. I have a feeling that my competitors are clicking on my link just to drive my costs up." Gary parked the van to let me out, and dove straight for his Blac