Anti-piracy code of practice for search engines proposed by rights holder representatives
Internet search engines that operate in the UK could stop publishing links to websites that are deemed to be substantially infringing copyright under plans proposed by groups representing rights holders.

Search Engines Exit the Crawl Space - ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces for Sale a Patent Portfolio on Improved Vector ...
CHICAGO, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --  ICAP Patent Brokerage , a division of ICAP plc, the world's largest intellectual property brokerage and patent auction firm, is offering for sale a patent portfolio ...

Do We Need a Ministry of Truth for the Internet?
What is ?truth?? It?s a question as old as the study of philosophy itself. In an age of information abundance, even overload, that question persists and some academics argue that search engines or other online operators should do more to help us sort fact from fiction on the Internet. An effort to force or even encourage search providers to be proverbial Ministries of Truth, however, could open ...

Should Google take the crazy out of the Internet?
Evgeny Morozov thinks search engines should "flag" sites that promote nutty conspiracy theories. It's a nutty idea.

Media groups propose anti-piracy 'code of practice' for UK search
Rights groups up in arms... Internet search engines that operate in the UK could stop publishing links to websites that are deemed to be substantially infringing copyright under plans proposed by groups representing rights-holders.…

Are You Keeping Secrets From The Search Engines?
Many webmasters are obfuscating the content of their sites’ pages from view of the search engines. They post content that appears differently for human readers than it does for search engine crawlers. And as a result, their sites receive inferior treatment from those search engines in the indexes.

Search Engine News Wrap-up Jan 15
Here are the latest news from the world of search engines and Internet searching.