Flach Film, a Paris-based film distributor, has filed suit against Google in Paris Commercial court, citing copyright infringement regarding a movie that appeared on Google Video.
Italy Bullies Google Over Video
A video of an autistic 17-year-old boy being bullied in a Turin classroom made it onto Google Video, and Italian authorities are furious that the content was not caught by Google staffers.
Google To Get Belgian News Hearing
A couple of parties to a lawsuit in Belgium against Google for its news indexing have settled with the search advertising giant, but Google will have to wait until 2007 to fight an injunction against its scraping of news content managed by distributor Copiepresse.
Hammer Dropped On Google Earth Viewer
Users of the Gaia project’s open source utility for viewing the data normally available to Google Earth clients have been asked to stop using it in the wake of a cease and desist request from Google.
Google Ends Gaia’s World
Opensource three dimensional Earth viewer Gaia received a cease and desist letter from head Google Earth technologist, effectively ending their world.
Google Merging Blogs Into Search Results
Andy Beal has quoted Andy Boyd on Google merging blog search with natural search results. Andy Boyd also has screenshot of a page in which blogs were shown as results after the Top 10. He says that:
Seasonal Changes At Google Checkout
Google Checkout has, as expected, instituted a few changes in response to the holiday shopping season. Look for a smattering of new merchants – including PETCO – and for the opportunity to save $10 (in more than one way).
Google Helps News Publishers With Sitemaps
An expressed desire for better indexing from Google News has prompted Google to release a Sitemaps product specifically for those news publishers.
Microsoft Writes Off Google
Microsoft’s co-head of the Office software team says the company is not intimidated by Google’s web-based word processing and spreadsheet applications, claiming they will not appeal to corporate customers.
New Sitemaps For Google News
Google has introduced sitemaps for Google News. So if you have a site included in Google News, you can creat and submit News Sitemaps to inform Google about the articles that you wish to be included in Google News.