Comments on: MSN responded and complied with DOJ request … last summer!

By: SEO Book.com

SEO Book.com — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:41:18 +0000

Privacy, User Data, Trust and Marketing

Post about the recent government lawsuit against Google aiming to pry away search query data from Google. AOL, MSN and Yahoo! lamely gave up similar search data without informing their users.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 14:02:22 +0000

rich - it wouldn’t have been idiotic if the information was benign and also last summer was a time when people were having fits about Google and privacy. The timing was ripe. Go back through the news cycles in the summer of 2005.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:59:43 +0000

orangecrush - maybe so. Still a missed opportunity.

Seth - maybe you missed the part about it being an opportunity to be upfront about the situation? If the information was so benign as Mr. Moss contends, there was little risk in a “firestorm.”

By: uli's objets trouvés.

uli's objets trouvés. — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:10:28 +0000

Search Engines And Trust.

Back then there was a chance to come out at a time when Google was being pounded over privacy concerns and stand up to the government instead of folding like a cheap lawn chair and working out some technical response that we would only learn about mon…

By: rich

rich — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 06:02:49 +0000

When do you think Google was subpoenaed? Just wondering if they “came clean” the second they were. If MSN did “come clean” people would just stop using their engine to play it safe. It would be idiotic for them to say anything back then. When you think about it, Google is the one playing it safe.

By: Seth Finkelstein

Seth Finkelstein — Sun, 22 Jan 2006 04:46:16 +0000

Umm, perhaps they didn’t makea fuss because the data wasn’t connected to any individual, and they didn’t want to spark off a firestorm?

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Sun, 22 Jan 2006 03:48:34 +0000

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By: orangecrush

orangecrush — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 17:45:45 +0000

I just wonder if Microsoft was so tired of the government attacks in previous years, that they were a bit brow beaten and just gave them what they wanted to keep, the DOJ off their back?