New Google policy will combat 'domain name tasting'
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A controversial practice enables some domain name registrars to make short-term gains from registering domains that others might want. Now Google -- the vehicle for their revenue -- says it wants to do something about that.
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Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS (Domain Name System) pinning, that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.
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As part of the ongoing concern over privacy and retention of private information gather from its users, Google is setting a new policy to reduce the lifetime of cookies to a period of 2 years auto-expire term. What this means is that users who visited Google&#8217;s site and continues to visit Google will have their [...]
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Measuring time on page instead of hits is likely to hurt Google but help YouTube.
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Google Registering Mashup Search Domains Gary Price of ResourceShelf has noticed that Google has its eye on some new domain names, this time focusing on Mashup Search. Although Google does not own the domain SearchMashup.com, they are working on cornering the domain market for that term - including misspellings. So, here&#8217;s a list of domains registered by [...]
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The Internet registrar is being criticized for its practice of putting holds on domain names that searchers on its site may not look for but not immediately register, although it since has backed down.
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Blog: By using the new AskEraser tool, users will be able to set their privacy preferences so the search engine does not retain their Web search history.
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The Clinton campaign comes up with a new line of attack on opponent Barack Obama, and the first step is to register the right domain names.
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Google envisions the policy to be a product of self-regulation by companies, improved laws and possible new ones.
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Ziff Davis - New hires, a domain-name registration and Mozilla bugs lead to speculation that Google is preparing a Web browser, but the clues could point in many directions.
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Google is the focus of mounting paranoia over the scope of its powers as it expands into new advertising formats.
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There is some confusion about threats posed by the new search tool. Google says common sense is enough of a patch. By Thomas Claburn.
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The Internet's key oversight agency is investigating suspicions that insider information is being used to snatch desired domain names before an individual or business can register them.
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New rule creates potential security flaw for domain name transfers.
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A proposal by the overseer of the Internet&#39;s addressing system could make it a lot easier for people to reserve the domain name they want for their Web site.
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Blog: Google now lets advertisers see exactly which web sites their ads appear
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Faced with concerns by European online privacy advocates, Google is promising to obscure information about people&#39;s Internet searches after only 18 months.