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InternetNews June 12, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Shortens Hold Time on User Data From now on, or at least until another government complains, Google will anonymize its search server logs after 18 months. The company made the announcement this week in response to another round of European Union objections.
InternetNews March 15, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Behind The Curtain Google changes its privacy policy so you can search anonymously.
InternetNews February 27, 2006 Ed Sutherland	DoJ: Google Search Request Not a Privacy Threat The Department of Justice has rejected Google's assertion that a government subpoena for search data threatens the privacy of Internet users.
InternetNews September 9, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	Google to Purge Server Logs Twice as Fast In a nod to mounting privacy concerns, Google slashes the time it stores users' IP addresses.
The Motley Fool March 15, 2007 Alyce Lomax	Google: Slightly More Secure It's good that Google's proactively addressing the privacy risk, but shareholders should closely monitor how the search giant balances customers' concerns with its need to improve the quality of its own services.
InternetNews April 8, 2008	Google Defends User Data Policy Despite EU Report Google on Monday defended a policy of retaining data on Web users for up to 18 months as necessary to improve search results, responding to an EU report that saw no need for search services to keep personal data beyond six months.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Search, COPA and Dealing With The Feds In the fall of 2005, the U.S. Department of Justice issued subpoenas to the top four search engines, in hopes of figuring out what people are searching for and what they're finding.
InternetNews July 23, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Ask, Microsoft Talk Search Privacy The two search rivals ask Google and others to join their commitment to develop global privacy principles.
InternetNews March 2, 2006 Glenn Minnis	Who's Watching Whom? Web search privacy rights takes on government's need to know in an epic battle.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Google vs. the Government "Don't be evil" comes into play as the government wants a piece of Google's data. If the Department of Justice gets what it wants, it will be a blow against privacy on the Internet -- and of serious concern for Google investors.
InternetNews May 29, 2007 Roy Mark	Google-DoubleClick Merger Up For FTC Review The Federal Trade Commission plans to investigate any antitrust implications of Google's proposed $3.1 billion acquisition of online advertising firm DoubleClick.
InternetNews March 18, 2006 David Needle	Google, For the Most Part, Won't be Searched The U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif. said Google would have to turn over the log of 50,000 URLs to the Department of Justice, but not any of the data on 5,000 search queries the they requested.
InternetNews February 21, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Admits Security Risks Google agrees with report saying there is 'unacceptable risk' in Desktop 3 Beta for companies.
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Search Privacy At Google & Other Search Engines This article examines what Google and other search engines record about your searches.
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan	Google And The Big Brother Nomination This article explores allegations by Google Watch that Google is a threat to privacy and Big Brother like.
InternetNews March 14, 2006 David Miller	Google, DoJ Face Off in Search Data Tussle U.S. District Judge James Ware said today he would rule in a matter of days on the Department of Justice's demand that Google turn over search records to the government.
InternetNews April 19, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Privacy Pressure Applied to Google, Gmail Complaints to EU regulators are the latest flap hindering the company's efforts to run targeted ads in their free e-mail product.
InternetNews March 6, 2008	EU Set to Clear Google-DoubleClick Merger: Sources Google is expected to receive unconditional approval from European Union regulators next week for its $3.1 billion takeover of ad firm DoubleClick.
InternetNews January 20, 2006 Roy Mark	Google Rebuffs DoJ's Porn Data Order Google said Thursday it would "vigorously" resist complying with a federal court order to turn over data the Department of Justice deems necessary for its flagging constitutional defense of the Child Online Protection Act.
PC World June 19, 2007 Scott Spanbauer	Is Google Too Big? With its empire expanding, the search giant can have an unprecedented breadth of knowledge about you. Can we trust it with so much data?
InternetNews January 27, 2006 Susan Kuchinskas	Storm Warning for Google, Search? Google could be headed for a court confrontation with the U.S. attorney general -- and for the mother of all privacy storms.
Search Engine Watch October 31, 2007 Steve Haar	Search Quality Depends on Intention From a marketing perspective, we should try to keep in touch with the environments in which our ads and SEO efforts are seen by the users.
InternetNews October 23, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	Google Gets Social Search Religion Google's Custom Search Engine is for individuals, organizations or business that want to add customized Google Web Search to their Web site or blog.
InternetNews December 21, 2007 Sean Gallagher	With Google/DoubleClick Approved, is Privacy Dead? The Google-DoubleClick merger creates a uniquely large single lightning rod for privacy activists to get up in arms over.
InternetNews August 22, 2007 David Needle	Why Google Likes Facebook Marissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience, admitted in a keynote address that she has a bit of Facebook-envy.
CIO January 15, 2006 Juan Carlos Perez	Who Uses Google Google users tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo and others, according to a new study.
The Motley Fool September 26, 2006 Alyce Lomax	Searching for Privacy Online Three of the folks whose search data was leaked onto the Web by Time Warner's AOL unit are suing the company for the blunder. The lawsuit against AOL may very well have ramifications that surpass AOL's own search services and policies.
PC World June 2006 Erik Larkin	New Privacy Threats As you guard your privacy against standard threats like spyware and phishing, your data is leaking out via legit firms you do business with.
PC Magazine January 31, 2007 Dave Mathews	Cover Your Tracks Online Your online activities could, and do, end up in a data-base somewhere.
InternetNews June 2, 2006 Roy Mark	Tech Talks Data Retention With DoJ Shrouded in secrecy, top tech executives met Friday with the Department of Justice over a proposal that Internet service providers retain customer records for up to two years.
Search Engine Watch February 15, 2006 Chris Sherman	Google Desktop Fears Overblown? Consumer watchdogs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation are urging a boycott of Google's new Desktop Search program, citing privacy concerns. But is it really too risky to use the program?
InternetNews September 14, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Google Calls For Global Privacy Standards Google goes on the offense in Europe over privacy concerns.
InternetNews September 9, 2008 Kenneth Corbin	DoJ Intensifies Google-Yahoo Scrutiny As the DOJ appears to be intensifying its antitrust review of Google's advertising deal with rival Yahoo, analysts wonder if the companies might find themselves defending the partnership in court.
InternetNews January 26, 2007 Nicholas Carlson	Court Wants YouTube Pirate's ID A US District Court in Northern California has instructed Google to produce identifying information for a YouTube member accused of illegally uploading episodes of Fox's "24" and "The Simpsons."
Information Today January 2003 Paula J. Hane	Web Search Trends At Internet Librarian 2002, Danny Sullivan examined what's happening with Web searching tools. He said the past year had not seen huge developments, but rather incremental changes, in our evolving Internet technologies.
PC Magazine August 29, 2007 Dan Costa	You Are What You Search Google's Web History project tells us a lot about ourselves by tracking our search habits, but what info does it give Google about you, too?
InternetNews December 11, 2007 Kenneth Corbin	Privacy-Wary Searchers, Ask(.com) And Ye Shall Receive The launch of AskEraser is billed as the answer to Internet users' mounting privacy concerns, but some say it doesn't go far enough.
Search Engine Watch April 20, 2005 Chris Sherman	Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages.
InternetNews January 19, 2010	Microsoft Reduces Bing's Hold on User Data The No. 3 search player adopts a more privacy-friendly data-retention policy that one-ups even archrival Google.
BusinessWeek February 20, 2006 Stephen H. Wildstrom	Your Data, Naked On The Net The U.S. Justice Dept.'s demand for data on how Web surfers use Google and other search engines raises a disturbing question: Just how much do the Web sites you visit know about you?
InternetNews August 8, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	AOL Leaked Search Queries Privacy issues drive another search engine to delete user data.
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2000	Google Gets Kid Safe, Suggests Maps Google has added a new feature to filter adult content out of its listings, and the search engine now also provides links to online maps in response to relevant queries.
Search Engine Watch April 29, 2004 Danny Sullivan	Google IPO To Happen, Files For Public Offering As many expected, Google filed to go public today. A quick update on the news and pointers to more information.
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan	In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge.
Information Today August 14, 2006 Richard W. Wiggins	AOL Is Caught in Its Own Long Tail The utter stupidity of this is staggering. AOL has released very private data about its users without their permission.
Search Engine Watch August 16, 2005 Danny Sullivan	Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy The search engine companies are once again arguing about which search engine has a larger or fresher index. But there is still no metric to measure whose results are most relevant.
Search Engine Watch July 5, 2000	Google Announces Largest Index Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index of 560 million URLs in June, making it the largest search engine on the web....
PC Magazine March 1, 2006 Michael J. Miller	When the Government Knows Where You Search The Bush administration asked the major search engines for information on the most popular Web searches, as part of an effort to reinstate the Child Online Protection Act (COPA).
InternetNews October 14, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Search Hits The Desktop Google's Desktop Search application, released today, sorts through desktop files of all sorts, as well as AOL Instant Messenger chats and Web sites the user has visited.
InternetNews November 16, 2006 David Needle	Google, Microsoft and Yahoo as Partners? Competitors put aside their differences to agree on Web search standards.