Google ad revenue ‘to surpass TV’
Google is about to overtake the UK’s main commercial TV channels in the race for advertising revenue, a study says.
It found that the US internet search giant’s 2006 UK revenues are expected to surpass Channel Four’s predicted £800m ($1.5bn) returns.
Google will then overtake ITV1 within 18 months, advertising buying companies Mindshare and Initiative told the [...]
Google pushes for search options in Vista
Google Inc said Monday that it wants Microsoft Corp. to make sure users can easily choose Internet search engines in future products — but Google refused to say if changes Microsoft has already made to its upcoming operating system, Vista, have gone far enough.
David C. Drummond, Google’s senior vice president of corporate development, spoke to [...]
Google AdSense for Audio Coming
Google plans to release Google AdSense for Audio to monetize podcasts sometime this quarter, according to sources.
I’ve been sitting on this news for months out of deference to a colleague’s wishes, but today Seeking Alpha has some information on it too, so I thought I might as well post.
Earlier this year, Google contracted with several [...]
Does YouTube Really Have Legal Problems?
When Google bought YouTube, the conventional wisdom—expressed in op-eds, newspaper articles, and scary editorial cartoons—was that they’d also bought themselves a whole heap of copyright trouble. The New York Times used the phrase “litigation-laden landmine.” Part-time copyright theorist Mark Cuban warned that YouTube would face the same copyright fate as Napster.
There’s only one problem with [...]
Google quizzed over YouTube plans
Google has vowed to take a tough line on copyright when it completes its $1.65bn (£875m) takeover of YouTube.
The video-sharing website’s rapid growth has been partly down to the thousands of clips from old TV shows uploaded illegally by its users.
But Google Europe vice-president Nikesh Arora told MPs his company would not tolerate copyright violations.
YouTube [...]
Google Custom Search Launches Tomorrow
Google will launch a custom search engine starting tomorrow. Many felt this would be an upcoming shift in ideas after experiencing sites like Rollyo. The Financial Times is reporting similarities to that very site with the Google unveiling.
The service is said to have a few neat customization ideas such as the ability to [...]
We’re Google. So sue us.
Google attracts millions of Web users every day. And, increasingly, it’s attracting the attention of plenty of lawyers, too.
As Google has grown into the world’s most popular search engine and, arguably, the most powerful Internet company, it has become entangled in scores of lawsuits touching on a wide range of legal questions, including copyright violation, [...]
µTorrent WebUI Widget for Google HP
For those of you who don’t already have Google Homepages, now’s the time to signup and create one. uTorrent has recently released a great new widget for the Google HP that allows you to monitor your uTorrent downloads while you’re reading the daily headlines or playing that great Pac-man game they have available on there [...]
Google almost doubles profit as advertisers rush online
The world’s favourite search engine, Google, almost doubled its profit in the third quarter as advertisers flocked in ever greater numbers to its rapidly growing network of websites.
Google last night announced that its earnings for the three months to September reached $733m (£390m), compared with $381m for the same period last year.
The company comfortably beat [...]
Gootube = legal P2P
“If we can have a legal YouTube, we can have a legal P2P service” says music industry analyst Bob Lefsetz author of The Lefsetz Letter in a right-on target rant about what the “GooTube” means to for the music business.
Announced just prior to Google’s acquisition plans for the online video sharing service, Industry observers like [...]
