Earlier this month Google revealed that they’d uncovered a series of cyber-attack attempts against U.S. Government officials, U.S. military leaders, Asian political leaders, Chinese activists, and journalists. These attacks happened in the form of “spear phishing” efforts that sent highly personalized messages to the Google accounts of specific users, attempting to get access to secure data. Read More…

As far as modern political struggles go, one of the most fiery has long been the battle on how much autonomy a business should have; with too little, they cannot grow or thrive, and with too much, they can overrun the market (becoming a monopoly, engaging in unfair practices, etc.). There are few places in today’s world where this battle is quite as visible as it is with Google.
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It’s not secret that .gov websites get a healthy boost when it comes to search engine results. However, this one component of SEO isn’t a trump card either, and there are plenty of official government websites being pushed back to the second, third, or 437th page. It’s for this reason that Professor John McMillan, the Australian Information Commissioner (a recently created position) has urged government agencies to work on their search engine optimization tactics.

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