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Google's Massive Android Update Will Come With A New 'Smart' Lock Screen (GOOG)

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Google's Massive Android Update Will Come With A New 'Smart' Lock Screen (GOOG)

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Google Has Denied More Than Half Of The 'Right To Be Forgotten' Requests It Has Received (GOOG)

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Google just updated its public statistics about how many URLs it has removed since the EU ruled that individuals have the “right to be forgotten.”

The “right to be forgotten” says individuals have the right to prohibit Google from linking to websites, news stories and items that are “inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant,” to prevent stigmatization as a consequence of something that happened in the past. Opponents believe this legislation will decrease the quality of the internet through censorship and constantly rewriting history. 

In the four-plus months since the EU enacted the controversial “right to be forgotten” ruling, Google has denied more than half of the 144,954 requests it has received. 

Google has received the most requests from France (28,912) and the least number of requests from Liechtenstein (55).

Google reports that it has removed more Facebook URLs from search results than from any other site. 

To further increase transparency, Google also shared a bunch of requests that it has received, and what it decided to do. Here are a few of them:

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Google Wants To Make One App For All The Everyday Things In Your Life (GOOG)

GoogleGoogle wants your phone to automatically interact with all these types of objects.

Google is launching a new project that aims to make interactions with everyday things like parking meters and vending machines with your smartphone even easier than it already is now.

While fairly easy to do, the problem with all these kind of smartphone interactions at the moment is that you need a different app to pay for your parking, then another to see when the bus is going to arrive and another still to order a soda from the vending machine while you wait.

Google is hoping its new “Physical Web” initiative will make the need to download all these different apps obsolete. It wants you to just be able to walk up to an object and be able to interact with it straight away as soon as you open the app — with the added ability to opt in for notifications from your favorite things.

The new project allows companies to create web addresses for any of their physical objects, entering into a new open ecosystem for smart devices, allowing them to broadcast URLs via a Bluetooth beacon into the area around them. On the user’s side, they just need to download a a simple Android or iOS app that will link in to all these smart objects.

Google says it will use its tech to weight the URLs against a phone’s signal strength and potentially with a user’s preferences or search histories. It may also apply its algorithms to rank URLs based on the most-used objects.

There’s clear advantages of an open Internet of things standard from a marketing perspective. Google itself suggests that the idea will just make getting things done that bit easier — like a Zipcar broadcasting a signup page so you can drive away in seconds, not having to dig in your pocket for change to get a Pepsi and finding out that “Mike’s Pizza” place next-door has a Monday offer on.

The idea of your phone automatically linking into other devices as it passes them does throw up security implications. But Google says user tracking will be avoided by allowing smartphones to pick up all the URL broadcasts without actually talking back to the beacons themselves. Google, poetically, says the idea is for a user to “walk through a space and leave not trace.” The smart devices are talking, but they’re not listening.

The “internet of things” has been a popular topic in the advertising and tech world for some years. Having an open standard for thousands of different devices to click into may help move the idea from concept to reality.

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I fall in Love with google more each day...

But through the veil of my desire for things Google, I have to question is this all knowing entity that has given life to so many things and has injected more life in to me more than a company or algorithm; is it a god like being?