Posts tagged as:

Search

Data protection group states three major search engines not complying with EU law

by certifiedbug on May 27, 2010

in Internet Security

Data Protection — European Commission, 26 May 2010.

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party, a group of European data protection authorities, today told the three major search engine operators – Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft – that their methods of making users’ search data anonymous still do not comply with the European Union’s Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. [PDF]

The Article 29 Working Party recognises the search engines’ efforts to bring their policies in line with European data protection legislation. However, in letters sent to the companies, the Working Party urges them to use an outside auditor to verify their commitments to make users’ internet search data truly anonymous.

http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/news/index_en.htm

Press Release. [PDF]

http://ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/privacy/docs/wpdocs/others/2010_05_26_letter_wp_google.pdf

{ 0 comments }

Bing is live

by certifiedbug on June 1, 2009

in Microsoft

http://www.bing.com/

Update
Microsoft is Getting Things Right This Time
When a Problem Comes Along, You Must Bing It

Create your own Search Provider.
Internet Explorer
http://www.ieaddons.com/en/createsearch.aspx
FireFox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12205/

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090529/microsoft-bing-decision-engine-video-tour/

{ 0 comments }

Microsoft unveils “Bing”

May 30, 2009

PressPass REDMOND, Wash. — May 28, 2009 — Microsoft Corp. today unveiled Bing, a new Decision Engine and consumer brand, providing customers with a first step in moving beyond search to help make faster, more informed decisions. Bing is specifically designed to build on the benefits of today’s search engines but begins to move beyond [...]

Read the full article →

New search engine Cuil launched

July 28, 2008

Cuil (pronounced kewl) Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge. For knowledge, ask Cuil. http://www.cuil.com/ http://www.cuil.com/info/ The layout is very different from Google, Live Search and Yahoo’s, it’s a magazine style popular with bloggers, complete with tabs. Typed spyware into the search box. We didn’t find any results for “spyware” Some reasons might be… [...]

Read the full article →