Facebook and Google, two of the world’s biggest and most influential online companies, are duking it out in a very public battle over who should control the Internet.That war of words continued on Thursday, when Google wrote a rebuttal to responses on its joint policy proposal with Verizon about an open-Internet standard known as “Net […]
VIA Huffington Post: By Josh Silver, Free Press For years, Internet advocates have warned of the doomsday scenario that will play out on Monday: Google and Verizon will announce a deal that the New York Times reports “could allow Verizon to speed some online content to Internet users more quickly if the content’s creators are […]
If you use Google to search for a picture of First Lady Michelle Obama, brace yourself for an unpleasant surprise. Depending on your Web browser’s settings, the first image to surface in Google Image’s search engine could be an offensive image of the First Lady ostensibly photo-edited to resemble a monkey. Originally spotted by Search Engine Roundtable, after a Google user […]
