Assignment 1

Cameron Sieling

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This article talks about the FTC filing a lawsuit for at least $19 million against google
play. The FTC involves parents who were billed due to their children purchasing apps that were
not authorized to be using. The FTC wants google to make a parental consent form before
charging the purchaser. Google is not alone with this problem as Apple and Amazons appstore.
Googles process to purchase an app does not require a password so children were free to
purchase whatever they wanted ranging from 99 cents to $200.
I used two different search engines with the keywords google payout and got similar
results. I used google and also Bing. They had some of the same websites come up in the search
but Bing came up with a video also about the google payout.
The article I found on Bing was written September 4, 2014. This article does answer my
question so it is very relevant to what I am trying to learn. Jacob Axelrad wrote this article and is
a staff writer for The Christian Science Monitor. He went to the University of Michigan and
worked on his student newspaper and got his first story for the Monitor in 2013 from Oujda,
Morocco, where he reported on refugees for four months. The information seems to be accurate
by looking at the in text citations from groups such as the Federal Trade Commission. There is
no bias work in the article it is strictly to inform the viewer nothing more. There are no sides
taken in the article just facts.
I used two different databases actually due to the lack of data on the subject I was looking
for. I first used SIRS to find my first article and on my second search I used LexisNexis
Academic. In both of the search engines I used FTC lawsuit against google play. I choose
these databases because they were the least complex ones in trying to find my information.
Assignment 1
Cameron Sieling

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In using the Bing search engine and using the LexisNexis search engine I found two very
different outcomes. When using the Bing search engine I had many more results relating to my
topic as to where the LexisNexis engine had very few. The difference was that the Bing search
had anyone who ever wrote about the FTC lawsuit even just high school students. As to where
LexisNexis only had scholarly sources that were revised and published from people who knew
what they were talking about. Bing may have not taken as long as LexisNexis but the amount of
accuracy was very different.
MLA Format

Axelrad, Jacob. "Google to Refund Customers $19 Million for Unauthorized In-app
Charges (+video)." The Christian Science Monitor. The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sept. 2014.
Web. 25 Sept. 2014. <http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2014/0904/Google-to-
refund-customers-19-million-for-unauthorized-in-app-charges-video>. Bing Search Engine
Nieva, Richard. "Parent Payout: Google Settles In-app Purchase Suit for $19M." Cnet
Tech Industry. CNET, 4 Sept. 2014. Web. 25 Sept. 2014. <http://www.cnet.com/news/google-to-
pay-19m-settlement-in-ftc-in-app-purchase-suit/>. Google Search Engine
Lunden, Ingrid. "Google To Pay Out At Least $19M To Settle FTC Complaint On Kids
In-App Charges | TechCrunch." TechCrunch. Tech Crunch, 4 Sept. 2014. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.
<http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/04/google-to-pay-out-at-least-19m-to-settle-ftc-complaint-on-
kids-in-app-charges/>. Tech Crunch Search Engine
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Cameron Sieling

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Snyder, Riley. "Google Faces Suit over App Charges." Los Angeles Times 2014 jul 11:
B.1 DB - SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.
<http://sks.sirs.com.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org>. Sirs Search Engine (CCBC database)
Vancouver Sun, ed. Settlement With FTC Costs Google $19M. Vancouver Sun.
LexisNexis, 5 Sept. 2014. Web. 25 Sept. 2014.
<http://www.lexisnexis.com.ccbcmd.idm.oclc.org/lnacui2api/api/version1/getDocCui?oc=00240
&hnsd=f&hgn=t&lni=5D2R-6JY1-DY2T-
D40X&hns=t&perma=true&hv=t&hl=t&csi=270944,270077,11059,8411&secondRedirectIndic
ator=true>. LexisNexis Academic (CCBC database)