“In November 2011, Eoin McKeogh was falsely branded as a thief on YouTube, Google, Facebook and a number of websites. This was the result of a video and accompanying material which wrongly identified him …” (more)
[Inforrm's Blog, 19 May]
“A Dublin student wrongly branded a taxi fare dodger in a viral YouTube video has won a major victory in a High Court action against tech giants Facebook and Google …” (more)
[BreakingNews.ie, 16 May]
“A federal court has sided with the Associated Press and the New York Times in a closely-watched case involving a company that scraped news content from the internet without paying for it …” (more)
[Jeff John Roberts, paidContent, 23 March]
“Google announced last night that it will be shutting down its RSS feed, Google Reader, in a couple of months. It was an unpopular decision …” (more)
[Martha Gill, New Statesman, 14 March]
“Multinational companies always like to cite Ireland’s educated workforce as one of the reasons why they set up shop here …” (more)
[John Mulligan, Independent, 9 March]
“It seems that Google just can’t past this whole ‘stop pirating our bylines’ thing these days: the German lower parliament approved a bill requiring Google (and other search engines) to pay a licensing fee for re-publishing bylines of news stories …” (more)
[Liam Boogar, Rude Baguette, 4 March]
“The lower house of the German parliament, known as the Bundestag, has approved a new bill that would require search engines to pay a license fee for re-publishing content longer than ‘individual words or short excerpts’. The bill passed by a vote of 293 to 243, with three abstentions …” (more)
[Cyrus Farival, Ars Technica, 2 March]
“Google may have to act quicker to remove potentially libellous posts from its Blogger platform following a court of appeal ruling in London. The court ruled that a gap of five weeks between a complaint being made and the removal of allegedly defamatory comments on a blogpost could leave it open to a libel action …” (more)
[Lisa O'Carroll, Guardian, 14 February]
“While Google may see its payments to French publishers as a smart move for its own short-term purposes, the deal is still being seen by many as a payment for links, and that could set a dangerous precedent …” (more)
[Mathew Ingram, GigaOm, 4 February]
“… Google+ and its video chat service Google Hangouts offer enormous potential for academics and researchers to connect and collaborate, writes Amy Mollett as she shares some of the ways that LSE Review of Books plans to use this new social platform …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 31 January]
“I just don’t understand why Google+ gets dismissed as a place for meaningful online activity. Just looking at brands, I see there are 30 brands above the million follower mark on G+ compared to 33 on Twitter …” (more)
[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View from Ireland, 29 January]
“Libel expert says firms’ Ireland presence opens them up to lawsuits from people abused by bloggers and tweeters …” (more)
[Henry McDonald, Guardian, 24 January]
“As Google gets bogged down with the French government over a so-called ‘internet tax’, the newspaper Le Monde reports that the search giant tried and failed to reach a large-scale copyright deal before Christmas …” (more)
[Jeff John Roberts, paidContent, 21 January]
“In a major win for the search giant, it avoids a battle over search bias. The Federal Trade Commission announced today that it has completed a nearly two-year investigation into Google’s business practices. Here are some of the key takeaways: …” (more)
[Casey Newton, CNET News, 3 January]
“Since 2005, I have watched the development of social media in Irish education. While the speed and preferred services have changed, usage patterns remain predictable …” (more)
[Bernie Goldbach, Inside View from Ireland, 11 November]
“Winning a Nobel Prize really is the ultimate demonstration of academic impact, but why would the public seem more interested in one of two joint winners? Rebecca Mann traces the public’s desire for information on Roth and Shapley, this year’s winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics …” (more)
[Impact of Social Sciences, 18 October]
“On Thursday, Google and five publishers settled a long-standing legal battle over whether scanning university-library books and using snippets in search results can be done without the permission of copyright holders. While the agreement lets Google continue its work, both sides deliberately avoided tackling the issue at the heart of the conflict: What does fair use mean in the digital age? …” (more)
[Antone Gonsalves, ReadWriteWeb, 5 October]
“Google has launched a broadside against a proposed law in Germany that would see search engines forced to pay license fees for linking people to news stories …” (more)
[David Meyer, GigaOM, 21 August]
“Google is seeking Irish applicants for the 2013 Google Rise (Roots in Science and Engineering) awards which are designed to promote education in science, maths and computer science …” (more)
[Catherine O'Mahony, Business Post, 16 August]
“Google has agreed to pay a $US22.5m (£14.5m) fine to settle allegations that it broke a privacy promise by secretly tracking the online activities of millions of people who use Apple’s Safari web browser …” (more)
[Independent, 10 July]
