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The search advertising company doesn't go in and tweak the results that come up for queries, except for the times that it…
The Center for Democracy & Technology's analysis of behavioral ad targeting done at the ISP level, which claims such targeting "may run afoul of federal and state wiretap laws," comes at a pretty convenient moment for Google. Both the search ad company and the CDT are testifying in front of the Senate Commerce Committee this morning for a hearing about behavioral targeting and privacy.
Here's the less exciting side of a new development: Flickr users aren't being given any choice other than to go about their business as usual. But on the more interesting front: Getty Images will begin swooping in to offer some of them commercial opportunities.
A few days ago, Marissa Mayer wrote a blog post about Google's homepage, and an obsession with simplicity and clean design became almost painfully clear. Now, her company's launching a sort of fragmented virtual world in which users can choose cats as avatars and hug each other underneath dinosaur skeletons.
Despite millions of visitors to video sharing site YouTube, Google hasn't managed to find a key that unlocks the magic box of revenue for the site.
Windows users and system administrators should breathe a little sigh of relief as Microsoft's light package of patches for July, but a recently discovered Critical problem with Snapshot Viewer still lacks a solution.
