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• Article | 24/05/2012 European privacy regulators want more detail on Google's policy changes

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• Article | 24/05/2012 Yahoo leaks private key, allows anyone to build Yahoo-signed Chrome extensions

  Yahoo was forced to release a new version of its Axis extension for Google Chrome after the original one contained a private key that allowed anyone t...
• Article | 24/05/2012 Yahoo launches stand-alone mobile search app

  Yahoo beefed up its search offerings on Wednesday when it launched Axis, an HTML5-based browser app that delivers search results as page previews rath...
• Article | 23/05/2012 Microsoft takes Bing Streetside offline in Germany after privacy complaints

  Microsoft has taken its Google Street View-like service Bing Streetside offline in Germany after German citizens expressed their worries about how Mic...
• Article | 21/05/2012 EU offers Google a chance to avoid fines over four antitrust concerns

  Google has "a matter of weeks" to address four antitrust issues identified by European Union antitrust regulators. If Google addresses these issues th...
• Article | 21/05/2012 Microsoft's social networking site So.cl now open to all users

  So.cl, an experimental research project from Microsoft, that combines social networking and search to promote learning, is now accepting all users int...
• Article | 21/05/2012 EU offers Google a chance to avoid fines over four antitrust concerns

  Google has "a matter of weeks" to address four antitrust issues identified by European Union antitrust regulators. If Google addresses these issues th...
• Article | 17/05/2012 Google search will incorporate 'knowledge graph' into main search results

  Google will begin in the next few days to incorporate the "knowledge graph" it has been building for two years into its search results .
• Article | 15/05/2012 China's Baidu unveils new low-end smartphone with latest cloud platform

  Baidu, which runs China's most popular search engine, has unveiled its newest smartphone, featuring the company's own mobile platform and priced to ta...
• Article | 15/05/2012 WSJ: Thompson told Yahoo board he has cancer

  Scott Thompson told the Yahoo board before he was ousted as CEO over the weekend that he has thyroid cancer, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. ...
• Article | 11/05/2012 Microsoft revamps Bing to include interactive social sidebar

  Bing will soon include a search interface that offers social search results in a separate column to the right of the returned links, Microsoft said on...
• Article | 8/05/2012 ACM CHI: more search could be crowdsourced

  Search engines could use crowdsourcing to expand the range of answers they give to their users, a group of researchers from the Microsoft and the Mass...
• Article | 5/05/2012 Fewer than half of Facebook and Google users understood the sites' privacy policies

  Most users of Facebook and Google had fundamental gaps in understanding, even after reading privacy policies, about how the websites handled their inf...
• Article | 3/05/2012 Yahoo makes a play for small business ad dollars, dives into proxy fight

  Yahoo launched a free marketing dashboard on Wednesday to boost its advertising appeal for small and midsized businesses by simplifying digital market...
• Article | 27/04/2012 FTC hires outside attorney in Google antitrust case

  The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has hired an outside litigator to lead its antitrust investigation of Google, a possible sign that the FTC is prepar...