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Posted by Karen Wickre, Google Blog TeamIn case you're thinking summer is the time to slow down, that's not always true around here. Our CEO has been on the go on behalf of a number of our public policy initiatives. And our Public Policy blog has been keeping up with him.
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Posted by Chris Sacca, Head of Special InitiativesFor several years now, many Googlers have been working to identify the obstacles that prevent the Internet from being available to everyone on the planet. It strikes us as unfair that some people should enjoy such abundant access to this rich resource while billions of others aren't so [...]
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Today we're announcing some key enhancements on the Google content network (partner sites for which we provide advertising) that will offer a better experience for users and better value for advertisers and publishers. These enhancements are the latest result of our integration with DoubleClick and our commitment to making advertising on the Google content [...]
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Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP Search Products & User ExperienceLate one night in the summer of 2000, I found myself answering user support emails in response to two new features we had just released, Advanced Search and Preferences (at the time catchily called "Language, Display, and Filtering Options" :)). Busy crafting answers about how to [...]
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Posted by Matt Cutts, Software EngineerThis post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. As the head of the webspam team at Google, I'm in charge of making sure your search results are as relevant and [...]
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Posted by HongHai Shen, EngineerThis post is the latest in an ongoing series about online safety. - Ed. One of the things I work on is password security. And because I'm someone who pays close attention to passwords and how people use them, I sometimes hear interesting stories. For example, a couple of my colleagues [...]
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Posted by Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy Counsel, and Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy CounselBecause we're strongly committed to protecting your privacy, we want to present our privacy practices in the clearest way possible. Over the past year, we've been experimenting with video to clarify and illustrate the privacy practices set forth in our Google Privacy Policy. [...]
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Posted by Paul Haahr and Steve Baker, Software Engineers, Search QualityWe recently began a series of posts on how we harness the power of data. Earlier we told you how data has been critical to the advancement of search; about using data to make our products safe and to prevent fraud; this post is the [...]
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Posted by Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust & SafetyWe recently began a series of posts on how we harness the power of data. Earlier we told you how data has been critical to the advancement of search technology. Then we shared how we use log data to help make Google products safer for [...]
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Posted by Niels Provos, Google Security TeamWe recently began two new series of posts. The first, which explains how we harness data for our users, started with this post. The second, focusing on how we secure information and how users can protect themselves online, began here. This post is the second installment in both series.- [...]
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Posted by Douglas Merrill, VP of EngineeringAs many of you know, we spend a lot of time around here thinking about new products to help you run your life more efficiently, whether that’s organizing email in a better way, sharing pictures with friends, or collaborating in real time on documents. What you may not know [...]
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Posted by Hal Varian, Chief EconomistWe often use this space to discuss how we treat user data and protect privacy. With the post below, we're beginning an occasional series that discusses how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. We think it's appropriate to start with a [...]
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Posted by Marissa Mayer, VP, Search & User ProductsIt's been a busy week for the Google Health team. Last week we announced our partnership and pilot with the Cleveland Clinic. This week, the team has been at the HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society) conference in Orlando, Florida, where Eric Schmidt gave the [...]
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Posted by Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy Counsel;Peter Fleischer, Global Privacy Counsel; and Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust and Safety Last year, the Council of Europe had a great idea. Based on polling that showed that 70% of Europeans did not understand how their personal data was being protected, the Council decided to hold [...]
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Posted by Jane Horvath, Senior Privacy CounselIn order to give you the best possible information about the privacy settings for our products, we asked the engineers and product managers who actually designed them to explain how they work in a series of new videos we released today on our YouTube Privacy Channel. These videos feature [...]