Patriots May Cancel Tickets For Using StubHub
The New England Patriots have won a court case against online ticket reseller StubHub and have obtained the names of 13,000 people who have bought or sold tickets using the site. The Patriots said they could revoke the season tickets of people who used the site.
Google Still On a Hiring Binge
I support Google’s relaxed dress code. But given all the hiring the company’s doing, I’d recommend one tweak: name tags. Google added over 2,100 employees this last quarter, making it seemingly impossible for anybody to keep track of anything.
Microsoft, Viacom Posture On Content Sharing
The newly announced User Generated Content Principles, backed by several media companies, exhorts websites to filter content while paying lip service to fair use.
Google Webmaster Central Takes History Lesson
What’s old is new with the tools Google makes available to webmasters, with their latest update that brings more historical data to the service.
Yee-hah! Dallas Cowboys Clueless On Domains
Poor Jerry Jones, first his ‘Boys get curb-stomped by the Patriots, then it turns out the attorney representing them at a domain name auction has no idea about the starting or ending price.
Navigational Searches Common, Confusing
Why do people type full URLs into search bars? And why is this practice noticeably less common at Google than at other search engines? It’s hard to say, really, but Compete’s Jeremy Crane has some thoughts and stats on the matter.
Google Earnings As Expected, Revenue Up 57%
Google shares have been up and down in after-hours trading, but largely have hovered around the closing price of $639.62 soon after Google released its earnings report for the third quarter of 2007. Google beat analyst expectations by a slim margin.
Google Trends Reveals What Unites Manchester
In celebration of Reuters’ discovery of Google Trends, we thought we’d revisit for an update. Like last year (when Google Trends was launched) Birmingham, England still has the world’s largest concentration of porn searches.
Google News Now Featuring YouTube Videos
Two months ago, we reported that some people had seen video clips appear on Google News. Not us, mind you – a sort of regional test may have been taking place – but some people. Now we’ve seen one for ourselves, and the clip came straight from YouTube.
Senators Critical Of Wireless Carriers
Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN.) is sponsoring a bill that calls on wireless companies to prorate early termination fees for cell phone subscribers that sometimes are as high as $200 and are disguised as taxes on bills.