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Google bombs date back as far as 1999, when a search for "more evil than Satan himself" resulted in the Microsoft homepage as the top result. [8] [9]In September 2000 the first Google bomb with a verifiable creator was created by Hugedisk Men's Magazine, a now-defunct online humor magazine, when it linked the text "dumb motherfucker" to a site selling George W. Bush-related merchandise. [10]
On August 4, 2006, AOL Research, headed by Abdur Chowdhury, released a compressed text file on one of its websites containing twenty million search queries for over 650,000 users over a three-month period; it was intended for research. AOL deleted the file on their site by August 7, but not before it had been copied and distributed on the Internet.
Yahoo paid $4.5 million in legal bills for the plaintiffs and agreed to settle advertiser claims dating back to 2004 [11] In July 2006, Google settled a similar suit for $90 million. [12] [13] On March 8, 2006, Google agreed to a $90 million settlement fund in the class-action lawsuit filed by Lane's Gifts & Collectibles. [14]
In early 2005, the United States Department of Justice filed a motion in federal court to force Google to comply with a subpoena for "the text of each search string entered onto Google's search engine over a two-month period (absent any information identifying the person who entered such query)."
Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González was a decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union holding that an internet search engine operator is responsible for the processing that it carries out of personal information which appears on web pages published by third parties.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 July 2024. American software engineer Matt Cutts Cutts in 2008 Born Matthew Cutts 1972 or 1973 (age 51–52) Alma mater University of Kentucky (BS) UNC-Chapel Hill (MS) Occupation Programmer Known for SafeSearch, Google's family filter, Webspam Team Spouse Cindy Cutts (m. 2000; died 2018) Matt Cutts ...
In January 2006, Google agreed that China's version of Google, Google.cn, would filter certain keywords given to it by the Chinese government. [51] Google pledged to tell users when search results are censored and said that it would not "maintain any services that involve personal or confidential data, such as Gmail or Blogger, on the mainland ...
Through a web application, Archive-It partners can harvest, catalog, manage, browse, search, and view their archived collections. [79] In terms of accessibility, the archived web sites are full text searchable within seven days of capture. [80] Content collected through Archive-It is captured and stored as a WARC file. A primary and back-up ...