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You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results

Krebs on Security

“We’ll also evaluate if the content appears as part of the public record on the sites of government or official sources. ” The company says if it approves your request, it may respond by removing the provided URL(s) for all queries, or for only queries including your name.

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Enhance existing knowledge and information skills with Generative AI

CILIP

Risks should be addressed by enhancing internal governance structures and procedures to ensure confidential organisational information is not shared. The AI may also recommend rewriting or restructuring content to focus on what users are searching for.

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On the Need for an AI Public Option

Schneier on Security

Tech companies can already access our daily whereabouts and search queries. Governments can do it, too. The United States needs a government-funded-and-directed AI program to develop widely reusable models in the public interest, guided by technical expertise housed in federal agencies.

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The Database of Intentions Is Far Larger Than I Thought

John Battelle's Searchblog

I had, in fact, been ruminating on this concept for over a year, driven by an Holy Sh*t moment in late 2001 when Google introduced its first ever Zeitgeist round up of trending search terms. Search was a pristine signal, an eruption of oxygen in the anoxic ocean of the early web, and an entire ecosystem grew in its bloom.

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The Database of Intentions Is Far Larger Than I Thought

John Battelle's Searchblog

I had, in fact, been ruminating on this concept for over a year, driven by an Holy Sh*t moment in late 2001 when Google introduced its first ever Zeitgeist round up of trending search terms. Search was a pristine signal, an eruption of oxygen in the anoxic ocean of the early web, and an entire ecosystem grew in its bloom.

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Who’s On First? (A Modest Proposal To Solve The Problem with First- and Third-Party Marketing)

John Battelle's Searchblog

In the piece, I argued that Microsoft’s move may well force independent publishers (you know, like Searchblog, as well as larger sites like CNN or the New York Times) to engage in a years-overdue dialog with their readers about the value exchange between publisher, reader, and marketer. note: Treated as OK, like first party marketing).

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This Is What Happens When Context Is Lost.

John Battelle's Searchblog

AdWords worked best when you used it directly on Google’s site — because your ad came up as a search result right next to the “organic” results. If your ad was contextually relevant to a user’s search query, it had a good chance of “winning” — and the prize was a potential customer clicking over to your “landing page.”