More DVD War Shots Fired

Google Countersuit Taken Out of Googleplex Backyard

Understandably, Microsoft is playing hardball with Google's countersuit regarding the legitimacy Kai-Fu Lee's non-compete agreement by working to disallow Google a home field advantage in California court. California laws do not recognize non-compete agreements, which is the basis for the countersuit, and Microsoft has asked that the case be taken up by a federal court instead.

Google Insider Cutts Into Blogging

One of Google's software engineers, Matt Cutts, has a blog up and running. The latest post has a great personal reply to someone questioning him on why their site wasn't showing up on the engine. Cutts gives a lengthy reply as to why that was, and it didn't look good for the site operator.