Search Engines Slow To Change Practices
from the we'll-get-to-it dept
I guess it's no surprise that following last week's announcement that the FTC has asked a number of search engines to change their practices concerning how they label sponsored results, that the search engines haven't changed anything. The FTC didn't give them a timetable, and so the search engines are all taking their time, though they insist (really) that they take the FTC's warnings seriously.
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