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A subpoena for information regarding Amazon.com customers and used book purchases as part of a criminal investigation into Robert D’Angelo has been withdrawn after withering criticism from the presiding judge.

Federal Judge Stephen Crocker in western Wisconsin rebuked US Attorneys for seeking records from Amazon in connection with D’Angelo’s tax evasion and mail fraud case. News [...]

Searches are up all over the world, and it’s an interesting juxtaposition to think of the rest of the world as “emerging” compared to North America and Europe. In today’s Searching for Meaning column, “Understanding the Global Search Marketplace - Part 2,” Kevin Ryan looks at some global search data provided by comScore to see [...]

Search sites measured by comScore under their new qScore 2.0 methodology will benefit from the hosted and affiliated search traffic they send back to the main search engine. It’s a scenario that offers Google a heaping helping of share by comScore’s reckoning.A couple of significant changes by comScore will alter the landscape of how they [...]

Search engines have faced mounting scrutiny over their data retention and privacy practices, and Microsoft and Ask likely wish to head off potential increases in federal scrutiny.Few things are more painful for a company than the prospect of heightened levels of federally-mandated paperwork. New laws and bureaucratic oversight represent an expense that companies would rather [...]

Their lead faded slightly to 49.5 percent of the US search market, but that was good enough for Google to easily best the field for June 2007.ComScore found in its assessment of June’s search data the usual top five search sites lined up like little ducks following their mother.
Google led the way, with Yahoo, [...]

Retail Web sites received 25 percent of their traffic from search engines for May 2007, according to findings from Hitwise. This was an increase of 0.7 percent over May 2006.

Hitwise also found that Google was the main driver of traffic for shopping and classified Web sites and is growing more rapidly as a source of [...]

By anonymizing logs of information captured from people who search on Google after 18 to 24 months, the company hopes to improve the perception people have of their privacy being protected.Google keeps data now for as long as finds the information useful. That could be an infinite period due to the relative low cost of [...]

Despite Microsoft’s best efforts, Vista isn’t yet breaking any sales records. According to some reports, the launch of the new operating system didn’t even draw a midnight crowd. People are curious about Windows Vista, though - data from Hitwise reveals that searches for the term are up 53%.
I had a cynical reaction when [...]