It also suggests, critics say, a willingness at Google to compromise its famous "Don't Be Evil" principles in the heat of its intense rivalry with Facebook and other competitors for digital advertising dollars. "What this really marks is a significant...

In fact, the WSJ report also says some Facebook apps use the same workaround code. Still, says Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan, who is also pretty critical of the WSJ report, this latest revelation is “a body blow to Google’s reputation.” One other...

Google accidentally captured some WiFi traffic and didn’t do anything with it, much more invasive than Google taking pictures of publicly visible buildings — both practices that drew enormous and enduring criticism at the expense of the company’s...

By default, Apple doesn’t allow this kind of tracking, but Google found an exception in the rules and exploited it, just so the company could integrate Google+ with its web ads. As Danny Sullivan points out at Marketing Land, the Journal‘s headline is...

Google argued in a written statement to the newspaper that it “used known Safari functionality to provide features that signed-in Google users had enabled,” and it stressed “these advertising cookies do not collect personal information.” Marketing...

Romney now has a similar problem thanks to the debut of SpreadingRomney.com in mid-January. It has jumped to page 1 of Google search results in just a few week’s time, which even search marketing industry veterans like Danny Sullivan finds remarkable. ...