keywords in comment and analysis
Ask the Lawyer: Trademark disputes and stopping spammers
Comment A: The law on both sides of the Atlantic in respect of keywords is uncertain at the moment, with both the UK and US courts yet to give a definite ruling on the issue. Most English lawyers would nevertheless advise their clients to be wary of using... [27 Apr 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Work work work, OS attacks and the secret of Google's success
Comment Instead of simple, free text-based keywords - which has been what most searchers have cut their teeth on - the Google engine collects web pages based on a hierarchy of linkages. Also, Google looks at the distribution of keywords in a document and... [28 Aug 2001]
The Bloor Perspective: Java skills in demand, Corel's future with Inprise, and how to make the Web more relevant
Comment Content providers deliver a list of Web domain names, individual Web pages and specific keywords about which they can deliver added-value information. As the user drills down through a Web site, the Java application re-examines the pages for... [14 Feb 2000]
Legal Eye: Google declares trademark open season
Comment As a result, advertisers whose brands are trademarked terms will now need to purchase the keywords related to their brands to ensure consumers who search on their brand terms are not diverted to competitors and vice versa - the increased... [30 Apr 2008]
How mobile is your corner shop?
Comment They will be able to text keywords to get discounts on goods they want to buy. Forget clipping vouchers out of magazines - why not get coupons sent straight to your mobile phone? Convenience stores are getting involved with a mobile phone-based... [13 Apr 2007]
Will the last one to leave please switch off the server
Comment Combine this with the fact that campaigners have found a loophole in the Bill which would allow law enforcement agencies to trawl any email sent internally within the UK for specific keywords (paedophile, terrorism or, who knows, industrial action... [10 Jul 2000]
A digital brain courtesy of Microsoft, post-Napster music and guess who can't get broadband...
Comment Just type 'potty' or the poor child's name into the search tool and it will return any appropriate results in a thrice, assuming you added the right keywords or notes when saving the file originally. Ever had problems remembering things or locating... [21 Nov 2002]
Thus opens a can of worms
Comment If technology is used to monitor for keywords, both groups' conversations may fall foul of Thus's censors. Thus, the owner of Demon Internet, broke ranks with its ISP brethren on Tuesday by saying it will take responsibility for any paedophilic... [23 Feb 2001]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.04.2004
Round-Up No problem there, except the service searches for keywords in 'private' emails and adds adverts it thinks are relevant to the context of the message. To begin with, many thought it was an April Fool's joke. [16 Apr 2004]
Google searches for more moola (part two)
Comment Lloyds is paying for placement in search results related to more than 1,000 insurance-related keywords over the coming year. But while it has a solid foothold in Europe, the company does not dismiss the competition. [30 Jul 2002]
Technologies Time Forgot: Commodore 64
Comment Okay, you didn't have the raft of keywords that you got with machines like the BBC B and the Spectrum but at least you were POKEing and PEEKing to change the screen and border colours by the time you got to the fifth page of the user manual. [24 Dec 1982]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Searching for mobile search
Comment Ask yourself this: How often do you find what you're looking for on a search engine on the first page without having to refine the search with further keywords or click in and out of a couple of results along the way? [13 Apr 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.06.04
Round-Up It was only this week we reported the volume of spam featuring pornography has drooped since filters were introduced to spot certain saucy keywords (see here). "To dream the impossible dream, to fight the unbeatable foe, to bear with unbearable... [04 Jun 2004]
Microsoft anti-trust lawyers met with stiff opposition
Comment While that might surprise anyone who's sat through hours of mildly salacious TV ads ad nauseam, when it comes to serving banners on search engine sites based on the keywords being typed in, sex just isn't on. [31 Aug 2001]
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