Inside Google

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Google using search engine to muscle into Internet businesses, study finds

CONTACT: John M. Simpson

Google has been using its dominant position in online search to muscle its way into other Internet businesses, ultimately limiting consumer choice, Consumer Watchdog said today in a report written for its new Inside Google Website.

Protect your privacy on Google: Tips from Computerworld

Margot Williams

A great “smart paranoid’s guide to using Google” at Computerworld today takes you step by step through “down-and-dirty details on how to maintain your privacy while using Google’s myriad services.” It’s chock full of precautions, security tips and instructions on how to disengage from Google collections of  information about you. The guide takes you from […]

Google shows the way on search engine encryption; others must follow

John M. Simpson

Google has announced that it is now offering privacy-friendly SSL encryption on its search engine, becoming the first major company to offer the protection. The company deserves credit and others who want to do more than pay lip service to privacy should immediately follow Google’s lead.

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Consumer Watchdog Says FTC’s Google-AdMob Decision Will Hurt Consumers

CONTACT: John M. Simpson , 310-392-0522, x317; or 310-292-1902

The Federal Trade Commission’s decision allowing the $750 million deal for Google to buy mobile advertising company AdMob is anticompetitive and bad for consumers, Consumer Watchdog said today.

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Consumer Watchdog’s Jamie Court and John M. Simpson introduce Inside Google

CONTACT: John M. Simpson

Google change shuts Scroogle, but alternative search engine returns

John M. Simpson

Consumers worried about the data Google amasses about them as they use the Internet giant’s search engine have used a service called Scroogle.org. This week the nonprofit service was abruptly disrupted, prompting questions about whether Google deliberately targeted the operation.

We’re number one… or not. The vagaries of Google’s search engine.

John M. Simpson

As we ready Inside Google, now in “Beta” mode, for its formal launch I’ve been checking various search engines to see where the site ranks. Today Google put me at number one.

Can Google explain this search result?

John M. Simpson

As we have been putting Consumer Watchdog’s new Inside Google Website through its paces while it’s still in “Beta” mode, I discovered an example of exactly the sort thing Google needs to explain.

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Ohio AG backs antitrust suit against Google

CONTACT: John M. Simpson

In yet another indication of the seriousness of the mounting antitrust concerns about Goolge, the Ohio Attorney General, Richard A. Cordray, has weighed in on the side of myTriggers, an internet search firm suing Google for unfair anticompetitive practices

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Is history repeating itself with Google antitrust saga?

CONTACT: Glenn Simpson

Is this how it begins?
A handful of small companies crushed by a technology giant file David v. Goliath unfair competition lawsuits. A leading Silicon Valley antitrust expert lends his legal brains to the seemingly hopeless cause. Soon, a company that thinks it is all powerful and can do no wrong is forced to face up to the reality that it does not play well with others.