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UK Government asked Google to remove over 300 web search results, images and videos in first six months of 2011

18 November 2011 | Paul Gershlick

The UK Government has asked Google to remove 333 web search results, images and videos in the first six months of this year. The Internet giant fully or partially complied with four in five of the requests....

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Music body wants green light to clear online legitimacy traffic signals

26 July 2011 | Mark Weston

The Performing Rights Society for Music has called on search engines to offer a traffic light service under which Internet users could see whether a music site they were going to was supporting legitimately...

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Google ends suspension of links to Belgian newspapers’ websites after agreeing basis of copyright infringement action

25 July 2011 | Mark Weston

Google has agreed to allow Belgian newspapers to be listed on search results generated by its search engine after the newspapers had claimed that Google had been unnecessarily aggressive in removing them....

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European Commission asks social networks to restrict access to children’s profiles

11 May 2011 | Mark Weston

The European Commission has called on social network sites to restrict access to children’s profiles. Following a survey paid for by the Commission and published by the EUKidsOnline network, it found...

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M&S finds keyword advertising policy not smelling of roses as Advocate General unimpressed with its sponsored ads for “Interflora”

2 April 2011 | Mark Weston

An Advocate General has given his view to the European Court of Justice in a trade mark infringement case involving keyword advertising. The case revolved around M&S sponsoring “Interflora” as...

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Google accuses Microsoft in ‘Bing Sting’

4 February 2011 | Paul Gershlick

Google and Microsoft are engaged in a war of words after the long-standing search engine giant has accused Microsoft’s Bing search engine of copying and cheating following a sting operation coined the...

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European Patent Office creates free online search tool for all clean energy technology pate

8 December 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The European Patent Office has created an innovation of its own. It has created a tool that enables people to search for free for all patents in relation to the clean energy technology sector, wherever...

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Google investigated over allegations of abuse of dominant position in search engine market

2 December 2010 | Mark Weston

Google is being investigated by the European Commission over allegations that it abused its dominant position in the search engine market, contrary to European Union competition law. The fact that...

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CAP Code to apply to material on own websites

8 September 2010 | Mark Weston

The CAP Code is being extended to apply to material on organisations’ own websites. The CAP Code is a code of practice governing the content of adverts and marketing communications. It is administered...

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Argentina overturns previous ruling that had made search engines liable for links to content relating to superstars

26 August 2010 | Mark Weston

An Argentinian appeal court has overturned a controversial 2008 ruling in which search engines had been made liable for the content of sites to which those search engines provided links in the results...

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Latest news and views tagged search engines

UK Government asked Google to remove over 300 web search results, images and videos in first six months of 2011

Music body wants green light to clear online legitimacy traffic signals

Google ends suspension of links to Belgian newspapers’ websites after agreeing basis of copyright infringement action

European Commission asks social networks to restrict access to children’s profiles

M&S finds keyword advertising policy not smelling of roses as Advocate General unimpressed with its sponsored ads for “Interflora”

Google accuses Microsoft in ‘Bing Sting’

European Patent Office creates free online search tool for all clean energy technology pate

Google investigated over allegations of abuse of dominant position in search engine market

CAP Code to apply to material on own websites

Argentina overturns previous ruling that had made search engines liable for links to content relating to superstars

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