Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft urged not to censor search
Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Friday not to censor their Web search engines one day next week to help protest cyber censorship.
Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft on Friday not to censor their Web search engines one day next week to help protest cyber censorship.
Internet
Mar 6, 2009
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The rate of ad clicks from sponsored and non-sponsored links was reported in a recent study conducted by researchers from Penn State and the Queensland University of Technology.
Internet
Feb 25, 2009
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The scientific method is rigorous. Claims and premises are supported with evidence. The peer review system is designed to ensure that research is scrutinized by experts before publication. And whenever researchers lack certainty, ...
Social Sciences
Sep 13, 2022
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Our world has no dearth of complex networks—from cellular networks in biology to intricate web networks in technology. These networks also form the basis of various applications in virtually all fields of science, and to ...
Quantum Physics
Mar 3, 2020
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Only a few years ago, web search was simple. Users typed a few words and waded through pages of results.
Computer Sciences
May 16, 2019
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For years criminal websites shrouded in secrecy have thrived beyond the reach of traditional search engines, but a group of French engineers has found a way to navigate this dark web—a tool they don't want to fall into ...
Internet
Dec 30, 2018
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In 1998, Google began humbly, formally incorporated in a Menlo Park garage, providing search results from a server housed in Lego bricks. It had a straightforward goal: make the poorly indexed World Wide Web accessible to ...
Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 26, 2018
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A web hosting firm is fighting a demand by US prosecutors for data on visitors to a site organizing a protest during the inauguration of President Donald Trump in a fresh clash over digital privacy rights.
Security
Aug 15, 2017
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Web browsers might soon use fuzzy logic to spot redirection spam and save users from being scammed, phished or opening malicious sites unwittingly, according to researchers in India writing in the International Journal of ...
Security
Jun 16, 2016
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When an ad pops up in your Web browser, there's a lot going on behind the scenes. Advertisers are competing for the space in front of you in what amounts to an auction. In milliseconds, their computers have to decide how ...
Internet
Jul 20, 2015
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