SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 20, 2008
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Topic: Associated Press
Google Asked To Pay $77 Million To Belgian Newspapers For Copyright Violations
Yesterday we were reminded of Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against Google for copyright infringement. That case of course has yet to be determined. However, in Europe, a group of French-language Belgian newspapers previously won a copyright case against Google and are now moving to collect $77 million (€49m) in damages.
Ask.com Buying Lexico, Owner Of Dictionary.com
In a move that is interesting and perhaps even surprising for several reasons, IAC/Ask is buying Lexico Publishing Group, which owns and operates “iconic” domains Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com. These sites get most of their traffic through direct navigation and will increase Ask’s reach by 145 million unduplicated users (or 11 percent). Ask is saying […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 18, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 28, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 24, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 17, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 3, 2008
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 22, 2008
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Brin “Unnerved,” Yang “Girds,” And Microsoft Shops For A New Yahoo Board
Previewing the teams involved in the Google-sponsored Lunar X prize, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the Associated Press following the event that he found the prospect of Microsoft owning Yahoo “unnerving.” Meanwhile, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, according to Charles Cooper at CNET, is “girding for the certainty of a coming proxy war with Microsoft.”
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, & Other Search Engines Must Comply With EU Privacy Rules
EU: Search Engines Under EU Rules from the Associated Press reports that European data privacy regulators said search engines outside the EU have to comply with the EU’s privacy regulations.
Will The European Union Decide IP Addresses Are Personal?
The head of an EU group looking into search privacy issues said yesterday that Internet Protocol addresses assigned to computers should be treated as personal information. Below, more about that plus a look at some comments about how the search engines have been reported to the European Parliament to be dealing with privacy.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, January 4, 2008
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Guge Vs. Google Chinese Court Hearing Begins
Chinese Company Takes Google to Court from the AP reports the case between Guge and Google has begun this week. Beijing’s Guge Sci-Tech Co. took Google China to court for infringement over their name. Guge Sci-Tech Co. registered the name on April 19, 2006 with Beijing Municipal Industrial and Commercial Bureau. Google China didn’t register […]
Wife Googles Husband, Discovers He Kept Lottery Win A Secret
Miami woman sues missing husband for share of lottery win from the AP reports a husband was keeping a huge secret from his wife. The secret? He won $19 million in the Florida lottery jackpot! Donna Campbell is now suing her husband for half of his winnings, which turned out to be $600,000 after he […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 19, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 12, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 18, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 15, 2007
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Fall Cornucopia Of Linking News
Here we go again… The Associated Press (AP) is suing news aggregation site Moreover and parent company VeriSign, claiming copyright infringement for, among other things, linking to the AP news without permission (here’s the complaint in PDF format). In an awesome bit of newsbot irony, you can read all the gory details via Reuters.
Comparing Annual Ad Spending From Google, Yahoo, And Microsoft
This Associated Press article chronicles how Google has been able to build a multi-billion dollar consumer brand largely without advertising. That’s the part everybody knows. But the article also compares the annual ad spending of Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and eBay. It points out that when Google does buy any advertising, it’s typically to recruit employees.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 10, 2007
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Google Office Gains New Enterprise Credibility
Capgemini Backs Google’s Software Push from the Associated Press covers how Paris-based tech and business consultancy CapGemini is going to start recommending and installing Google Apps on enterprise desktops, a move viewed as a big boost for Google’s “office” application aspirations. CapGemini also works with Microsoft and IBM and “influences the type of software used […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 6, 2007
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Google News Now Hosting Wire Stories & Promises Better Variety In Results
Today, Google News will begin offering articles from several major wire services and news agencies hosted on its own site, rather than sending readers away from Google. The move is part of licensing agreements that have been stuck over the past year. Google News is also promising better duplicate story detection, so that the original […]
Brazil Says Google Still Not Cooperating Over Illegal Orkut Activities
Brazilian prosecutors say Google has not provided Orkut user information regarding crimes from the Associated Press reports that Brazilian authorities say that Google Brazil is still not complying with requests to hand over information on those using Orkut for illegal activities. Some use Orkut to help spread child pornography and hate speech. Prosecutor Sergio Gardenghi […]
Google News To Newsmakers: Send Us Your Comments
Weird. That’s the only way I can describe it. Google News is asking people who are in news stories to email them comments about the story, which will be associated with those articles. From the Google News Blog post:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 6, 2007
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Accoona Files For $80.5 Million IPO
Via PaidContent.org, Accoona Files for IPO from the Associated Press reports that Accoona has filed to go public, with an estimated IPO price of $80.5 million. Accoona hopes to list their stock as “ACNA” on the NASDAQ. The AP reports Accoona’s three business lines as online-lead generation, an online search engine in the U.S., Europe […]
Answers.com To Buy Dictionary.com For $100 Million
Answers Corp has reached an agreement to buy Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com from Lexico Publishing Group, LLC for $100 million. These properties attracted 11.5 million unique monthly users in the U.S. during the month of June 2007 according to comScore. They generated revenues of $7 million, EBITDA of $2.9 million and net income of $2.8 […]
Google To Build $600 Million Data Center In Iowa
Google to build data center in Iowa from the Associated Press reports Google has confirmed rumors that they will be building a data center in Iowa.
Google Bad On Privacy? Maybe It’s Privacy International’s Report That Sucks
It’s a bad privacy day for Google, with Privacy International first accusing the company of having the worst privacy performance of any internet service company in a study it has just released and then accusing Google of conducting a smear campaign against it. But if you actually read the report, Privacy International itself comes off […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 31, 2007
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Google Denies New UK News Search Deal
Google reach deals with news websites from the Sunday Herald reports that Google has reached a deal with several large UK newsgroups to carry content on Google News, but Google tells me no such deals have been agreed.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 18, 2007
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Billable Click Fraud Is 10% to 15%, Says Fair Isaac
Fair Isaac Claims Pay-Per-Click Fraud Is 10% to 15% from InformationWeek says Fair Isaac is going to report today that it has found the click fraud rate of billed paid search and contextual advertising to be 10 to 15 percent, though the figures are based on what the Associated Press characterized as being a “handful” […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 11, 2007
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Thailand Changes Mind, Won’t Sue Google Over Insulting King
Thailand Drops Plan to Sue Google from the Associated Press reports that Thailand has changed their mind on suing Google over the insulting videos of their king that were posted at YouTube. Vissanu Meeyoo, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology spokesman said, “We decided not to sue Google because it has agreed to cooperate […]
Thailand Taking YouTube To Court Over Insulting Video
Remember that case where YouTube was hosting a video many Thais felt was insulting to their king? Thought it was all resolved? Think again. The Thai government plans to go after Google in court. Most stories I’ve seen so far talk about Google getting sued, but the AP reports this move might be a criminal […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 30, 2007
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