article thumbnail

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

Krebs on Security

While Google’s removal of a search result from its index will do nothing to remove the offending content from the site that is hosting it, getting a link decoupled from Google search results is going to make the content at that link far less visible.

article thumbnail

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 Such schemes are used by both resellers who sell alcohol online bought from major retailers as well as fraudsters who sell counterfeit products. The intoxicating Internet.

Sales 64
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Gap Scenario

John Battelle's Searchblog

* It's been a longstanding thesis of mine that Google's ability to reorder information in microseconds, based on our declared intent through a search query, has habituated us to expect an immediate and relevant response from nearly every website - and in particular, commercial sites. You came in for your own retail therapy, after all.

Retail 92
article thumbnail

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).