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

Krebs on Security

Google said this week it is expanding the types of data people can ask to have removed from search results, to include personal contact information like your phone number, email address or physical address. According to recent estimates, Google enjoys somewhere near 90 percent market share in search engine usage.

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Mollitiam Industries is the Newest Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer

Schneier on Security

Its spyware is also said to be equipped with a keylogger, which means every keystroke made on an infected device — including passwords, search queries and messages sent via encrypted messaging apps — can be tracked and monitored.

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Market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol exceeded 30 million USD in 2018 in Russia

Security Affairs

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that the market volume of illegal online sales of alcohol in Russia exceeded 30 million USD in 2018, i.e. almost 5.8 According to Group-IB, in 2018 interest in online shopping of alcohol increased by more than 35% , as can be seen with the higher numbers of search queries for “buy alcohol”.

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Bing, Google, and Conversational Search – Is OpenAI an Arms Merchant, Or a Microsoft Ally?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Just last week I predicted that Google would leverage ChatGPT to create a conversational interface to its search business, and that Microsoft would do the same in the enterprise data market. Microsoft hopes the new feature, which could launch before the end of March, will help it outflank Google, its much bigger search rival.

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It’s Google’s World. Your Business Is Just Living in It

Adam Levin

Case in point: I just did a Google search for Basecamp, an online project management tool. Not too long ago, the same search resulted in a first hit featuring Basecamp, but it was an ad. percent of the online advertising market ) and pay to show up in search results. The copy: “We don’t want to run this ad.”

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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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Best Network Monitoring Tools for 2022

eSecurity Planet

On Gartner Peer Insights, Auvik holds an average score of 4.8 / 5 stars with 23 reviews for the Network Performance Monitoring market. On Gartner Peer Insights, Broadcom holds an average score of 4.5 / 5 stars with 75 reviews across the IT Infrastructure and Network Performance Monitoring markets. Auvik Features. Broadcom Features.

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