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Taking steps to further improve our privacy practices: Posted by Peter Fleischer, Privacy Counsel-Europe, and Nicole Wong, Deputy General Counsel: “When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful. Today we’re …
FindLaw: Viacom Files Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Against YouTube and Google Over Unauthorized Use Of The Company’s Shows: Viacom International, Inc. v. YouTube, Inc., YouTube, LLC, and Google, Inc., March 13, 2007. Viacom statement: Suit Seeks Court Ruling To Require YouTube And Google To Comply With Copyright Laws And Pay $1 Billion In Damages Google statement: …
Beet.TV: “A major defense department contractor, BBN of Cambridge, Massachusetts, has applied a national security technology application, developed to fight terrorism, to “crawl” the audio tracks of public Internet videos through its Podzinger subsidiary. Podzinger has analyzed, transcribed and organized some 1.5 million YouTube clips since December and is crawling many thousand every day, according …
Business Search vs. Consumer Search: Five Differences Your Company Can’t Afford to Ignore
Posted by Mendel Chuang, Product Marketing Manager: “For the past several months, we’ve been working on ways to let you better get information on your desktop through gadgets and sidebar. We’ve also thought about improving how you search your computer. Today, we are happy to be releasing the Google Desktop 5 beta application. The most …
Google Librarian Center posting: “Today we announced our 13th Library Project partner, the Bavarian State Library. With the announcement of a fourth library partner located outside the U.S., we’re making headway towards our goal of helping people find books from libraries all over the world through Google Book Search. We’re making a good deal of …
“Browse and search is a new way of browsing and searching pages from books in a Web browser using a “widget.” Thousands of titles are available for browsing and searching and are denoted as such with the “Browse and Search” icon. To get started right away, you can search the Random House catalog for any …
GovExec.com: Google moves ahead with plan to open up federal Web sites: “Three federal organizations recently agreed to structure their sites to make them accessible for nearly all Internet searches, [Google] officials said.” See also PlainLanguage.gov
FindSounds – Search the Web for Sounds – “…free site for finding sound effects and musical instrument samples on the Web.”
PTO Direct was created by intellectual property professionals for intellectual property professionals and their clients. Its purpose is to provide an efficient way to search, gather and share relevant intellectual property record information from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office. PTO Direct provides free patent searches.” [Ted McClure]
Failure Trends in a Large Disk Drive Population, Eduardo Pinheiro, Wolf-Dietrich Weber, Luiz André Barroso, 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST 2007), 2007 “We have built an infrastructure that collects vital information about all Google’s systems every few minutes, and a repository that stores these data in timeseries format (essentially forever) for …
Follow up to previous postings on a legal dispute between a group of Belgian newspaper sites and Google over removal of copyrighted materials from the search engine index, news today that the court reaffirmed its decision against Google. Google Official Blog: “Here’s a quick summary of the case: Copiepresse represents a number of newspapers in …
