When we look back at the last few months, we can see how Google’s Search reputation has seen better times. During this time, Google’s search results have been questioned like never before, because of fake, absurd or dangerous search results. Coming back from something like this isn’t easy for a search giant like Google. This […]
Here’s an interesting story for you – there seems to be a group of locksmiths who has filed a class action lawsuit against Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. It’s being claimed that the search engines (Google in particular) are purposely “flooding” organic results with “scam locksmith listings” that are known to be fake. These locksmiths are arguing […]
It’s been well established under US law that the First Amendment of the US Constitution gives search engines almost total discretion over the content on their pages and ranking algorithms. But, a court in Florida previously allowed a case against Google to survive a motion to dismiss (Plaintiff’s links were removed as “pure spam” in […]
Do you remember when we used to read these things called newspapers before the internet came around and practically made them unused? These days, we’re getting all of our news from online sources, rather than physical medium. Because of this, there is considerable pressure on other traditional media entertainment, which uses the argument that the […]
As we’ve seen over the last several years with continuous problems that Google has been facing, it’s no surprise that they’re facing mounting challenges from all over the world. We know that there are three active complaints in Europe, which are directed at vertical search, Android OEM agreements and AdWords contracts, but it seems that the […]
For the longest time, it seems that Google has been a high profile target of critics claiming that the company “encourages piracy.” Although this isn’t a uniformly help sentiment among everyone, as well as Google constantly disputing it, the accusation has been voiced by a number of people in the music and motion picture industries. Google […]
Unsurprisingly, the European Commission (EC) has filed a third “Statement of Objections” against Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. on Thursday. Not only that, the antitrust regulator even amended charges associated with initial shopping search case. It looks like Google is now dealing with three different active antitrust cases in Europe, all at the same time. The […]
In a report in the Wall Street Journal, European Commission (EC) regulators, are preparing a “supplementary statement of objections” in the existing shopping search antitrust matter The original “statement of objections (which were originally antitrust charges) were filed against Google back in 2015. Although, in the original charges, teh EC had been focusing exclusively on shopping search, […]
There is a class-action lawsuit saying that there is illegal tracking of kids’ web browsing and video-view habits. Google has been released from the action by the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals For Google, this is good news, as it’s one less legal issue they have do deal with, but Viacom, the owner of Nickelodeon and associated […]
The Google offices in Paris had some some unexpected company on the morning of May 24th. According to the BBC, the offices were “raided” by 100 tax officials. The company has been accused of owing France almost $1.8 billion in unpaid taxes. France, among other European countries, are trying to collect “back taxes” from Google […]