AP Launches News Content Protection Initiative

The Associated Press has announced its plan to launch an initiative to protect news content from "misappropriation" online. "We can no longer stand by and watch others walk off with our work under misguided legal theories," says AP Chairman Dean Singleton.

Google Car Harassed By British Villagers/Cops

Google Street View cars are hitting roadblocks in England, quite literally. If it’s not the cops in one town, it’s human shields in another. I’ve never been England, and all I know about British roads is from movies, and from what I gather they are often clogged with sheep. In one village, called Broughton, people shooed off the sheep to block the road personally. They…

No More PPC for Amazon Associates

Amazon is ending the payment of referral fees to associates in North America using pay-per-click (PPC) to get traffic. This is effective beginning May 1st. The change is not temporary. Amazon will not reinstate payment of referral fees to paid search associates. They say the decision to make the change is based on their review of how they invest their advertising resources.

Google Launches Gadget for Insights for Search

Google has introduced an iGoogle gadget for Insights for Search. It displays the top rising searches and top related searches on your Google home page. Users can change the settings to show results for a specific location, keyword, category, or source.

Google Health And CVS Expand Partnership

CVS Caremark has expanded its partnership with Google Health by offering its pharmacy customers the ability to download their prescription and medication histories to their Google Health account. Customers filling prescriptions at CVS pharmacy stores can now add their medication history to their online medical record directly from CVS.com.