US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook — (Article Review #10)

Article Title: US Judge Orders Hundreds of Sites "De-Indexed" From Google, Facebook

Article Author:

Nate Anderson

Article Publication Date:

November 29th, 2011

URL: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/11/us-judge-orders-hundreds-of-sites-de-indexed-from-google-twitter-bing-facebook.ars

Article Summary:

Chanel, A luxury goods maker steps in to alert the US courts about sites that are selling counterfeit luxury goods. For having won cases in the past, Chanel reports hundreds of sites to be investigated by law officials. A ban on search indexing was ordered, but was ignored by google and bing.

Relevance to Class:

The Government steps in once again to boss around Google. They are ordering them to de-index sites from their search engine which could mean that Information that needs to be found will be more harder to find than before. For the Users they would get "legit" information by the Government Standards.

Key Quote:

"I'm not sure how this court can direct a registry to change a domain name's registrar of record or Google to de-list a site, but the court does so anyway. This is probably the most problematic aspect of the court's orders."

HTML5: A Look Behind the Technology Changing the Web — (Article Review #8)

Article Title: HTML5: A Look Behind the Technology Changing the Web

Article Author:
Don Clark

Article Publication Date:
November 11, 2011

URL: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203537304577030033160849296.html

Article Summary:
HTML5 is becoming widespread due to its usefulness around the web. This type
of programming is rapidly changing the face of the web because apps for mobile
devices are being developed by HTML5 and not flash. HTML5 seems to be making flash more uses because companies are turning towards HTML5.


Relevance to Class:
HTML5 is becoming the lead innovator of the web. It enables designers to be
creative once again on the web.


Key Quote:
Danny Winokur, Adobe's general manager for interactive development. "If you want
to be delivering a Web experience around multiple devices, you have to be doing it
in HTML5," he says.

Google faces more government demands for user info — (Article Review #6)

Article Title:
Google faces more government demands for user info

Article Author:
MICHAEL LIEDTKE , AP Technology Writer

Article Publication Date:
October 25th, 2011

Url: http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-google-demands-info.html

Article Summary:
There has been an increase of government demanding information
and censorship from google. They see google as a site that holds
valuable information of what people do online and also want to
protect their country laws. Google is very sensitive with personal information and denied
their requests.

Relevance to Class:
Google is a huge library where users can get public information. The big bad government steps in
to demand more personal information from google users for their needs.

Key Quote:
"the government takes the threat of online extremism or hate content very seriously."