- Is your boss Googling you?
Date: 2004-10-21 Source: News.com
The survey, conducted by Harris Interactive for search engine Dogpile, said about 23 percent of adult Internet users in the United States have searched online for their clients or customers, workers or potential employees, and supervisors or prospective managers.
[Open In New Window] - A Closer Look At Privacy & Desktop Search
Date: 2004-10-14 Source: Search Engine Watch
A new era of desktop search is being ushered in. With it comes some new issues about search privacy. If you've protected your data the way you always should, no problem. If not -- it's time you did.
[Open In New Window] - Search weapons aim at privacy
Date: 2004-06-14 Source: ZDNet
No doubt the personalization of search results has emerged as one of the most promising weapons in the search market business. But are consumers being asked to give up too much personal information in exchange for more relevant search results?
[Open In New Window] - At what point is search too good?
Date: 2004-02-10 Source: CBS.MarketWatch.com
By organizing information based on social networks drawn from members' address books and the people they communicate with through e-mails (and instant messaging in the future, I'm told), Spoke improves upon the average search engine's results. That's the cool part. On the other hand, the data it pulls together includes information about millions of people who are not members and suggests a dark underside to search precision.
[Open In New Window] - Online Search Engines Help Lift Cover of Privacy
Date: 2004-02-09 Source: Washington Post
Cybersecurity experts say an increasing number of private or putatively secret documents are online in out-of-the-way corners of computers all over the globe, leaving the government, individuals, and companies vulnerable to security breaches.
[Open In New Window] - Prying Google seen as a risk
Date: 2003-09-18 Source: New Zealand Herald
Stephanie Perrin, principal of Montreal-based Digital Discretion, believes Google is a threat to personal privacy because it harvests images and information to serve up to anyone with a computer and internet access.
[Open In New Window] - The world according to Google
Date: 2003-05-22 Source: SFGate.com
With the click of a mouse, parts of your life, including any re-invented selves, are now open to public scrutiny. Within seconds, you can find someone you once cared about. But people can also locate you, even if you'd rather not be discovered.
[Open In New Window] - Trying to hide from alert Web intelligence
Date: 2003-03-06 Source: ElectricNews.Net
The vaster the Web becomes, the more you need a way to find anything, anyone, anytime, and Google has long been the tool of choice. But the reach of the big G is starting to make some people nervous.
[Open In New Window] - Yahoo privacy worries
Date: 2002-12-25 Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Yahoo's announcement this week that it plans to acquire search-engine powerhouse Inktomi for $235 million raises all sorts of troubling questions about who controls information in the electronic ether, as well as how that info gets exploited for commercial gain.
[Open In New Window] - Is Googling O.K.?
Date: 2002-12-15 Source: The New York Times
While Googling is innocuous, it is not entirely reliable. For starters, people share names. Even if you sort out the names, you can't rely on the veracity of online information.
[Open In New Window] - Web reveals hidden lives
Date: 2002-11-14 Source: BBC
Putting your postcode into a search engine can reveal a wealth of information about your neighbours, as BBC News Online reader Tad Piesakowski found out.
[Open In New Window] - Googling be gone
Date: 2002-11-12 Source: Jewish World Review
"Strangers in the night/Exchanging E-mails/Wondering at first sight - is he a female?/Googling is so right/For strangers in the night."
[Open In New Window] - The Truth About Big Brother Databases
Date: 2002-10-03 Source: SearchDay
Worried that your personal details may be stored away in a database that anyone can search? Two public records experts describe exactly what is -- and is not -- included in 'big brother' databases.
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