Category: Search Engines

Crypto Algorithm Not So Secure

A cryptographic standard for online security long known to be vulnerable should be phased out quickly, according to Dutch researchers who worked with Google to successfully break the algorithm. Developed by the U.S. government in the 1990s, the SHA-1 hash function was designed to help secure and authenticate electronic files and digital signatures.

cliquery 1.8.10

An interactive prompt allows users to easily make successive queries and enter program flags dynamically; simply typing help will list all possible flags to enter. Opening a link will invoke a browser supplied by the user or detected automatically across Windows, OSX, and Linux platforms.

cliquery 1.8.10

An interactive prompt allows users to easily make successive queries and enter program flags dynamically; simply typing help will list all possible flags to enter. Opening a link will invoke a browser supplied by the user or detected automatically across Windows, OSX, and Linux platforms.

Aurora fourth-grader is “Doodle 4 Google” finalist, so…

Aurora fourth-grader Madison J. Lee has some big news that she’s looking forward to sharing with her pet fish. The Black Forest Hills Elementary School student has been named one of 53 U.S. state and territories finalists for the annual “Doodle 4 Google” competition, meaning her work could be featured on the global search engine’s website and seen by hundreds of millions of people.

Aurora fourth-grader is “Doodle 4 Google” finalist, so…

Aurora fourth-grader Madison J. Lee has some big news that she’s looking forward to sharing with her pet fish. The Black Forest Hills Elementary School student has been named one of 53 U.S. state and territories finalists for the annual “Doodle 4 Google” competition, meaning her work could be featured on the global search engine’s website and seen by hundreds of millions of people.

Public trust in Google COLLAPSING as millions of natural health…

Google’s insidious censorship of the entire NaturalNews.com website has set off a firestorm of outrage across the independent media, with a wave of readers expressing astonishment and disgust at Google’s indiscriminate banning of the entire NaturalNews.com website for no justifiable reason. NEW: Sign this White House petition to halt Google’s outrageous censorship of Natural News, InfoWars and other independent media publishers.

FAST: ‘More to do’ on anti-piracy initiative

A new development on pirated films and music online comes as a step forward on the road to reducing mass copyright infringement. However, for the UK’s Federation Against Software Theft , as intellectual property plays an important role in supporting the UK’s economy, the Government must take a keener interest in enforcement measures to protect it.

Google, Microsoft agree to crackdown on piracy sites

For the first time, global tech giants Google and Microsoft have agreed to tighten up their search engines as part of a crackdown on piracy sites illegally streaming events and films. Google and Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, have signed up to a voluntary code of practice and will ensure offending websites are demoted in their search results.

Google and Microsoft will demote piracy links in UK search results

Both Microsoft and Google have agreed to demote piracy links in search results in the UK, it has been announced, in their latest efforts to help crack down on Internet piracy. This move, if it proceeds, will be a first of its kind, and will result in Google Search and Bing demoting websites in search results that give access to copyrighted content without the authority to do so.

Google, Bing Agree to Help U.K. Creative Industries Fight Pirate Sites

A voluntary code of practice is designed to “kick-start collaboration between the parties to demote links to websites that are dedicated to infringing content for consumers in the U.K.” Google and Microsoft’s Bing are two big-name search engines that have voluntarily signed on to a first-of-its kind initiative in Britain aimed at “reducing the availability of infringing content accessed through online search.” The agreement between representatives of rights holders and major search engines was unveiled Monday following a government-chaired series of roundtables.

Google & Microsoft To Demote Piracy Sites In UK Search Results

In a world first, Google and Microsoft have finally agreed to crackdown on piracy sites in the UK. On Monday, it was announced that the search engine giants had both signed up to a voluntary code of practice which will see them commit to demote websites that have been repeatedly served with copyright infringement notices, thereby making it much harder for UK internet users to download and stream films, TV, music and sport illegally.

Google & Bing To Step Up Demoting Piracy From UK Search Results

News is out that Google and Bing have made a deal with the Intellectual Property Office and British Phonographic Industry and Motion Picture Association organizations for both search engines to do better removing or demoting pirated content in the UK search results. Both search engines, according to the report, have promised to reduce pirated content in their search results by June 1, 2017.

Google, Microsoft agree to Crack down on Internet Piracy

Websites that stream or host pirated material may find it harder to feature on the first pages of two leading search engines as Google and Microsoft, which uses Bing search engine, have agreed to a new code of conduct designed to demote such websites in Britain, media reported on Monday. The code brokered by Britain’s Intellectual Property Office aims to stop search engines from driving traffic to illegal websites, the Telegraph reported.

Can internet-beaming balloons outmaneuver shifting winds?

In doing so, the 4-year-old “Project Loon” says it will be able to bring remote parts of the world online more quickly with a smaller fleet of the balloons than it previously thought. Engineers involved in the eccentric project, a part of the X Lab owned by Google’s corporate parent Alphabet Inc., say they have come up with algorithms that enable the high-flying balloons to do a better job anticipating shifting wind conditions so they hover above masses of land for several months instead of orbiting the earth.

Always ‘Just Around the Corner,’ AI Finally Arrives

After years of being on the verge of arriving, the AI revolution is here, says Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Steve Bell. “There’s a saying that AI is going to be big in the next ten years, but they’ve been saying that for the last 20 years,” the Heavy Reading man said in a wide-ranging interview with Light Reading.

Amazon releases Chime, a new cloud-based UCaaS

Chime is the latest enterprise app from Amazon, which is competing with Microsoft and Google across higher levels of the cloud stack Amazon is entering a crowded market of UC solutions, some of which are already cloud-based and others that run on customer premises. Nevertheless, analysts who track Amazon say the company has an opportunity here.

Microsoft adds patent suit protections for cloud customers

This July 3, 2014, file photo shows the Microsoft Corp. logo outside the Microsoft Visitor Center in Redmond, Wash. In a ruling released Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017, a federal judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Microsoft that claims a law that prohibits technology companies from telling customers when the government demands their electronic data is unconstitutional.

Google May Check to See if People Go to Geographic Locations Google May Recommend

Google was granted a patent this week to enable them to check whether people are following recommendations in search results to visit geographical locations – to see how many people actually visited those places. For example, people living near a certain restaurant may be recommended as a place they might like to go; and the patent determines whether or not people may be following those suggestions.

The high cost of being digital

AT THE 2010 TechCrunch conference, Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, described his ambition for the company. It would, he said, collect and analyse data about its users until “we know more or less what you are thinking about”.