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Your New Agreement With Google, Chrome Users
Your New Agreement With Google, Chrome Users
When Google released its browser called Chrome this fall, there was an unusually loud controversy about its End User Licensing Agreement (EULA) . The company responded quickly to those complaints. Now the contract with users has been changed again, with a number of sections deleted since ...
Google Turns Its Back on Network Neutrality [GigaOM]
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Google Search Suggest Get Ads, Links & Answers
Google Search Suggest Get Ads, Links & Answers
searchengineland.com — Earlier this year, Google Suggest finally made it to the Google home page. The feature suggests queries as you begin typing in the search box. Now Google is testing providing links to web sites, direct answers and even ads that appear within the ... (more) Google Search Suggest Get Ads, Links & Answers
Google cranks up the Consensus Engine • The Register
Google cranks up the Consensus Engine • The Register
theregister.co.uk — Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement - and nobody has yet grasped its significance. Not so very long ago, Google disclaimed responsibility for its search results by ... (more) Google cranks up the Consensus Engine • The Register
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Webware.com — ... ReadWriteWeb is reporting Google has removed a slew of sections from its Chrome browser EULA. According to the report, the new EULA has removed Chrome's age restriction policy, its requirement for personal information, and no longer bans automated access. Google has yet to comment on the change to the EULA. ...

Chrome’s EULA changes: Feels like Hotel California
Between the Lines — ... Has Google become the new Hotel California? You can checkout any time you like, But you can never leave! The folks over at Read Write Web sifted through the End User Licensing Agreement tied to the ...

Polishing Google's Chrome
Google Watch — ... However, Chrome still has soft spots because, ironically, it depends on Windows, and "there is the possibility of a flaw in the operating system security model itself." Read the piece if you haven't already for other issues, as well as this one on security in Google's new Native Client technology. ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick meanwhile was brave enough to dive into the boring Chrome EULA, which seems to change every week. Kirkpatrick notes: Part of the original Chrome EULA required that you had to give identification or ...

Google: A little more like Microsoft every day
The Open Road — ... Recently, Google made a series of changes to its Chrome EULA, including removal of language that describes how users can terminate their relationship with Google, as ReadWriteWeb discovered. Evil? Nah. That's likely just lawyers talking. ...

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