Google has long been the king of search, dominating rivals including Yahoo Inc. and Microsoft Corp. But it increasingly sees social networks such as Facebook as challengers to its search engine, a Google official said.
As people search out advice online for everyday, personal decisions, the standard list of links served up by Google is not [...]
Social networking and photo-sharing websites retain photographs deleted by users, reveals research by Cambridge University.
Researchers uploaded photos on 16 popular websites – including Facebook, Yahoo’s Flickr and Google’s Picasa – noting the web addresses where the images were stored and then deleted them.
The team said 30 days later, it was able to find them on [...]
Israel’s domestic intelligence agency issued a rare public warning on Monday that terror groups were using popular social networking Web sites like Facebook to recruit, and possibly kidnap, Israeli citizens.
The Shin Bet security service said in its statement it had “received many reports of terror groups approaching Israelis on the internet offering to recruit them… [...]
