The cookie war dividing Europe

Radical servers

If the highway code had been written in the era of horse-drawn carriages and carriages, we would all feel the urgency of updating it to modern-day traffic, made up of cars, vans, motorbikes and mopeds. And the same, metaphorically aside, is happening with the European Union rules for the protection of electronic communications. The directive today in… Continue reading La guerra dei cookie che divide l’Europa

Google manipulates its algorithms more than we think

Google manipulates its algorithms more than we think

A long investigation by the Wall Street Journal tells how in the most used search engine in the world there are increasingly more manual interventions to organize the results. It is estimated that around 63 thousand searches are carried out on Google every second. The precision of the results offered and the convenience with which you can find practically anything… Continue reading Google manipola i suoi algoritmi più di quanto crediamo

A Google algorithm "monopolizes" web traffic

Alternatives to Google Search

The algorithm used by Google to make its sites faster than its competitors behaves "incorrectly" by occupying most of the transmission bandwidth. A study by some researchers from Carnegie Mellon University has established this: the Bbr algorithm, developed by Big G, would manage internet traffic by consuming too much bandwidth... Continue reading Un algoritmo di Google “monopolizza” il traffico web

Do Google searches like a hacker would

Do Google searches like a hacker would

The search engine that we use every day to carry out any type of search also hides a dark side. If interrogated properly, Google can become an extremely effective weapon. Querying a search engine means entering the search terms into the Google bar and pressing the "Enter" key. And by knowing what to ask for, you can get it from… Continue reading Fare ricerche su Google come farebbe un hacker

Google and Facebook read your license plates [EN]

Alternatives to Google

For years I've gone back and forth over the practice of obscuring license plates on photos on the internet. License plates are already publicly-viewable things, so what's the point in obscuring them, right? Well, now I think there actually is a good reason to obscure your license plates in photos because it appears that Google… Continue reading Google e Facebook leggono le vostre targhe [EN]