Google Becoming Wikipedia Without the Talk Page
In a recent post about paid links, Danny Sullivan wrote about how Google’s army of engineers are going to start hand editing PageRank scores if they think you are selling links, which is a move that wreaks of desperation.
Google, IBM Create University “Cloud”
Google and IBM have partnered to give some of the world’s best young minds access to hundreds of linked computers. What’s more, the companies aren’t doing this out of direct self-interest, and have teamed up with six universities.
Google FTC Complaints “Chronicled”
A growing number of disgruntled Google users have filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission concerning a range of issues.
eBay Ads May Deflect Buyers
Imagine that someone leased space for a small sandwich shop. Then the landlord plastered signs for Jimmy John’s, Subway, and Schlotzsky’s all around the area. Not good, eh? And some eBay sellers feel that they’ve been put in a similar position.
Newsvine Plucked By MSNBC
News community site Newsvine just made an undisclosed amount of cash for its owners as MSNBC agreed to purchase it.
Google’s Cut? Forty Percent, Baby
Divide the online advertising revenue pool into ten slices. Google devours four all by itself, to the tune of $7.5 billion in the US market so far in 2007.
eBay Buys Auction Management Software, Site
“German engineering” is often a selling point in and of itself. And so I have to wonder how many times that phrase came up while eBay was in the process of acquiring ViA-Online GmbH, a German auction management software company.
Yahoo oneSearch Finds Answers And Wikipedia
Yahoo oneSearch has gotten a whole lot smarter – the mobile service is integrating content from both Yahoo Answers and Wikipedia. Frequent travelers will be happy to hear that airline information is getting added, as well.
Google and Trademark Laws
Greg Lastowka is an Associate Professor of Law at the Rutgers School of Law, Camden, and he finished a (draft) paper titled Google’s Law [PDF], which he says is a discussion of trademark law matters and the suits against Google for its AdWords practices (with some general Google history thrown in). Greg wraps it up for us:
Media Companies Tinker with Image Management
Gone are the days when my mental picture of the community "out there" was shaped by the the hand-picked Letters to the Editor in the print newspaper.