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The Motley Fool March 15, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Google: Slightly More Secure It's good that Google's proactively addressing the privacy risk, but shareholders should closely monitor how the search giant balances customers' concerns with its need to improve the quality of its own services.
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Google And The Big Brother Nomination This article explores allegations by Google Watch that Google is a threat to privacy and Big Brother like.
PC World April 2006 Andrew Brandt	How Much Does Google Know About You? If you think your search keywords are private, think again.
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Salon.com August 29, 2002 Farhad Manjoo	Meet Mr. Anti-Google A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic."
Search Engine Watch April 20, 2005 Chris Sherman	Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages.
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2006 Greg R. Notess	On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues.
InternetNews September 9, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Google to Purge Server Logs Twice as Fast In a nod to mounting privacy concerns, Google slashes the time it stores users' IP addresses.
PC World June 2006 Erik Larkin	New Privacy Threats As you guard your privacy against standard threats like spyware and phishing, your data is leaking out via legit firms you do business with.
Search Engine Watch November 10, 2005 Chris Sherman	Google Personalized Search Leaves Google Labs Google's personalized search has graduated from Google Labs and is now available to users on 39 worldwide Google domains in addition to Google.com.
InternetNews April 20, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Search and My History Shall Find My Search History, which went live on Wednesday, lets users access and manage their Google search history from any computer.
PC World June 19, 2007 Scott Spanbauer	Is Google Too Big? With its empire expanding, the search giant can have an unprecedented breadth of knowledge about you. Can we trust it with so much data?
InternetNews December 11, 2007 Kenneth Corbin	Privacy-Wary Searchers, Ask(.com) And Ye Shall Receive The launch of AskEraser is billed as the answer to Internet users' mounting privacy concerns, but some say it doesn't go far enough.
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Clearing Your Search History From Google And Other Search Engines Ever gone to Google or another search engine using the Internet Explorer browser and noticed that some past searches you've performed were displayed below the search box? It's your browser that's keeping the record, and it's one you may find yourself wishing to delete, from time to time.
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Behind The Curtain Google changes its privacy policy so you can search anonymously.
PC Magazine January 31, 2007 Dave Mathews	Cover Your Tracks Online Your online activities could, and do, end up in a data-base somewhere.
Search Engine Watch October 6, 2003 Chris Sherman	Google Testing Frequent Searcher Program Ever wonder just how often you use Google in a day? Soon you may be able to get an exact count thanks to a Google search counter the company has been quietly testing with a small group of users.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Google Tools Around The search giant is upgrading its search toolbar, but there's much bigger news afoot. Tuesday's earnings release is where the real excitement lies this week for investors.
Search Engine Watch February 15, 2006 Chris Sherman	Google Desktop Fears Overblown? Consumer watchdogs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation are urging a boycott of Google's new Desktop Search program, citing privacy concerns. But is it really too risky to use the program?
InternetNews June 12, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Shortens Hold Time on User Data From now on, or at least until another government complains, Google will anonymize its search server logs after 18 months. The company made the announcement this week in response to another round of European Union objections.
InternetNews June 21, 2006 Andy Patrizio	Adobe, Google Bundle Up Google Toolbar will be included with Adobe products, starting with Shockwave.
PC World October 24, 2007 Stephen Manes	Today's Web: Use at Your Own Risk! Sites want the right to snoop on you. But just what do they promise to give you in return?
InternetNews January 9, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Yahoo Leads in Toolbar Searches Though it continues to fall behind Google in other categories, Yahoo currently holds the lead for the most toolbar searches, but only by the thinnest of margins.
The Motley Fool September 6, 2006 Jack Uldrich	Google Searches the Past for New Opportunities The bottom line is this: Google's latest service, offering people a way to search back in time, also offers Google investors yet another reason why they shouldn't have to search too hard to understand how the company will keep its revenues growing into the future.
Search Engine Watch March 7, 2005 Chris Sherman	Google Desktop Search Moves Out of Beta After a comparatively short beta test period of just five months, Google has formally launched its desktop search application. And it addresses many of the privacy and security concerns raised after the release of the beta version last October.
Search Engine Watch April 21, 2004 Chris Sherman	Blending the Best of Google and Amazon Amazon.com subsidiary A9 goes beyond Google, offering a number of unique options, including some very cool personalization features.
InternetNews February 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google's Desktop Search Red Flag Google's new desktop search reveals privacy concerns.
Search Engine Watch July 6, 1999	Google Goes Forward While I've considered Google a "major player" in the search space for some time, the deal with Netscape gives it a mass audience for the first time, along with its first business deal.
Search Engine Watch March 17, 2004 Chris Sherman	Google Pushes Local Search Into the Limelight Google has officially moved local search out of Google Labs and into beta, introducing several noteworthy new features at the same time.
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2000	Google Gets Kid Safe, Suggests Maps Google has added a new feature to filter adult content out of its listings, and the search engine now also provides links to online maps in response to relevant queries.
InternetNews March 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Maps Local Search Game Google Maps enables users in the United States and Canada to find location information, navigate maps and get directions to neighborhood businesses.
InternetNews June 22, 2007 Clint Boulton	EU Expands Search Engine Scrutiny The European Union's data protection party probe said it is investigating any Internet search engine it feels is guilty of storing data for too long.
Search Engine Watch April 29, 2004 Danny Sullivan	Google IPO To Happen, Files For Public Offering As many expected, Google filed to go public today. A quick update on the news and pointers to more information.
InternetNews November 21, 2008 David Needle	Google Wikifies; Build Your Own Results SearchWiki gives users more control over search results.
PC Magazine November 16, 2004 Tara Calishain	Google Everywhere Search results can find you many ways.
InternetNews April 12, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Another Month And More Google Growth Google accounted for 64 percent of all U.S. searches. Yahoo hangs on to second place, but it has a Panama trick up its sleeve that it's hoping to boost its share.
PC Magazine January 10, 2007 John C. Dvorak	A Threat to Web Search Google, along with the rest of us, worries about Net neutrality.
InternetNews October 6, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Mashes Up Local Maps and local search merge into Google Local.
Searcher June 2004 Paul S. Piper	Google Spawn: The Culture Surrounding Google Just a few years back, the word Google existed as the name of a cartoon character and possibly among the random phonemes mumbled by toddlers. Today, one would be hard-pressed to find a person who hasn't heard of the search engine that bears this name.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Google vs. the Government "Don't be evil" comes into play as the government wants a piece of Google's data. If the Department of Justice gets what it wants, it will be a blow against privacy on the Internet -- and of serious concern for Google investors.
InternetNews April 20, 2007 Roy Mark	Google-DoubleClick Raise Red Privacy Flags Online privacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission today seeking to block Google's $3.1 billion bid for online advertising firm DoubleClick unless the world's largest search engine agrees to greater consumer privacy protections.
InternetNews April 8, 2008	Google Defends User Data Policy Despite EU Report Google on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results, responding to an EU report that saw no need for search services to keep personal data beyond six months.
CIO January 15, 2006 Juan Carlos Perez	Who Uses Google Google users tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo and others, according to a new study.
Information Today April 25, 2005 Paula J. Hane	Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers.
InternetNews February 21, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Admits Security Risks Google agrees with report saying there is 'unacceptable risk' in Desktop 3 Beta for companies.
Search Engine Watch January 22, 2004 Chris Sherman	Google Alert Automatically Tracks Your Favorite Topics Google Alert lets you automate the process of running regular queries, sending you an email whenever any new content matching your query is added to the Google database.
PC World September 26, 2007 Erik Larkin	Who Best Safeguards the Privacy of Your Web Mail? A look at privacy policies at Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo reveals your best choice for e-mail.
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