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Film that inspired Will Wright’s “Spore” is focus of latest YouTube subpoena

The short film credited with inspiring "Sims" creator Will Wright to develop the much-anticipated video game "Spore" is the subject of the latest subpoena...

How Google Ranks Blog Search Results

A recently published patent reveals the basic rules governing results in Google Blog Search, said the Google Operating System blog.The patent, filed in September...

Google Adds Themes for Personalized Homepage

Google may not be redesigning itself as Yahoo anytime soon, but it has started to offer some more personal touches to Google Personalized Homepage...

Microsoft: Google’s Blogger Clogged with Sploggers

A pair of Microsoft researchers claim to have discovered how to combat spam blogs, or splogs, and say that Google's Blogger hosting service is...

Comcast Unhappy with Google Search Deal

Comcast is negotiating with Microsoft to replace Google as its search portal technology partner, reports the Wall Street Journal. Comcast, which thinks it should...

US Customs seizes YouTube records in drug and death threat investigation

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency executed a search warrant against YouTube and Hotmail as part of an investigation against a drug trafficker...

Exec Confirms Google Phone

A Google exec has confirmed that Google is developing a mobile phone but is downplaying the phone's significance."Some of the time the engineers are...

Google Anonymizes Search Logs

Google, long a source of concern for privacy advocates worried about the publication of personal search histories, announced yesterday that it would start anonymizing...

Viacom Sues Google and YouTube

And during the fifth month, the lawsuits came.Media conglomerate Viacom filed today a $1 billion lawsuit against Google and YouTube over alleged unauthorized use...

18 Reasons why Google and YouTube are Guilty of Copyright Infringement

Why are you still sitting at your desk? Viacom sued YouTube and you should be running around like Mark Cuban with his head cut...