Inside Google

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

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.

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Consumer Watchdog Urges State Attorneys General To Probe Google’s WiSpy Snooping

John M. Simpson

Consumer Watchdog today called on the state attorneys general to investigate Google’s WiSpy snooping in their respective states to determine what state laws were broken.

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Google Admits Wi-Fi Data Blunder

Maggie Shiels

John Simpson, from the Consumer Watchdog, told the BBC: "The problem is [Google] have a bunch of engineers who push the envelope and gather as much information as they can and don't think about the ramifications of that."

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Australian news video calls Google “a company on steroids”

By John M. Simpson

A video produced by Hungry Beast, a weekly news show on Australian television puts Internet giant ...

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“Google HomeView” arrives in Germany

By John M. Simpson

Many Germans have objected strenuously to Google's Street View service saying that it is an improper invasion of their privacy. Now there's a delightful ...

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An answer to Google’s annoying Super Bowl ad

By John M. Simpson

Remember the ever-so-cute ad that Google ran during the Super Bowl?  Now there's a parody that shows some not-so-cute things you can do using Google's...

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How Google’s ‘Chrome’ Doesn’t Protect Your Privacy

By John M. Simpson

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt Responds to Consumer Watchdog

By John M. Simpson

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Google is committed to openness — for everybody else

John M. Simpson

Google continues to demonstrate that when comes to a commitment to openness and transparency the Internet giant is really talking about holding others to that standard, certainly not itself.

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What is Google hiding?

John M. Simpson

Thousands of pages of documents were unsealed in U.S. Court in New York Thursday in the $1 billion copyright infringement suit filed against YouTube and ...

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