Google and YouTube repeatedly violated a federal law that protects children from being tracked online and will pay $170 million in a nationwide settlement....
Google’s answer to Facebook and other social media sites was exposed three years ago by IM as a haven for lonely heart sex scammers with ties to organized crime. Now Google is throwing in the towel on the service....
Jennifer Aniston is pregnant… again! So claim the latest tabloid reports. But that’s no surprise. They’ve have reported her with child nearly 30 times over the past several years, including six times with twins. And, Jen, for one, is fed up with it. Katy Perry and Kendall Jenner and other young celebrities had become the new targets of fake pregnancy stories....
The face (and body) that caused hundreds, maybe even thousands of men to fall in love with her through online “lonely heart” scams, belongs to a Canadian soft-core porn actress. The model goes by the name Josie Ann Miller, but she has no connection to the scams, an IM investigation has discovered. Miller even warns fans about them on her porn Web site. Nonetheless, she’s a fraudster favorite because of her beguiling looks and a proliferation of easily obtainable photos and videos online. ...
Google sex and marriage scams all have one thing in common, a strikingly attractive woman. The are diverse, invariably young and desperately seeking true love, marriage and children. But no one has figured into more scams than an angel-faced beauty described by one victim as a “devil in the flesh of a fairy.” Her name is Carine, or Miriam, or Liliane, depending any one of several profiles posted on Google Plus, according to an IM special investigation of the search engine’s social media site. ...
Francoise Shaibend is a lonely French woman looking for love on the Internet. Who could resist her? And that's exactly the point. She wants your money (Photo: ...
Google Hangouts, the Internet giant’s answer to Facebook and other social media outlets, is a fertile hunting ground for organized crime groups that could be fronts for the Islamic State. They are using the service to con tens of thousands of dollars from unwitting users through blackmail and sex and marriage scams, a special IM investigation has learned. ...
Google has already taken one step to world domination–control of the information highway. Now it’s about to take another– control of real highways. Yes, its self-driving car is here… almost. The search engine giant, which controls almost 70 percent of Internet searches, released a video and detailed information today (May 15) about its latest invention on its blog. The company’s motives are nothing but altruistic of course. ...
More than a dozen Hollywood actresses and other celebrities have hired mad-dog celebrity lawyer Marty Singer and are threatening to sue Google for making available on its service hundreds of nude photos stolen by hackers. The giant search engine was put on notice of a potential lawsuit in a letter that charges Google with “despicable and reprehensible” conduct. The celebrities are not named, but such celebs as Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Kate Bosworth, Ariana Grande, Victoria Justice, Vanessa Hudgens and Scarlett Johansson have seen their nude photos go viral....
Google, which controls more than 70 percent of the search market, revised its search algorithm, known as Panda, this week and hammered gossip sites among other web outlets in a bid to control “spam.” Among sites that are seeing significant declines in organic search rankings are GossipCop, StarPulse and The Examiner. Changes to the algorithm, which determines where content appears in search results, have been highly controversial....
New York State Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman is cracking down on search engine optimization companies that engage in a “black hat” SEO scheme known as “Astroturfing.” It involves placing phony reviews on Web sites to boost traffic. The investigation, known as “Operation Clean Turf,” discovered that companies have been hiring freelance writers to post glowing reviews online to game Google’s search engine rankings....
