Google Loses Thumbs To Perfect 10

Google suffered a setback in court last Friday as US District Judge Howard Matz ruled that thumbnail displays retrieved by the company's image search feature were a likely violation of copyright law. Links to third party sites and the practice of "framing" the image above those sites, however, were not considered to be in violation.

Technorati Has Its Favorites

A new feature on the Technorati blog search site lets users dub blogs as Favorites; users can track those blogs for updates and share those Favorites with others.

Why Google and Yahoo Both Love eBay

eBay Inc. is the number one and number two sponsored link advertiser for both Google and Yahoo!, reports Nielsen/NetRatings. Dwarfing other advertisers in the top five, eBay and eBay's Shopping.com have spent more on search marketing than Target and Interactive Corp. combined (and then some).