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uTube Amends Complaint, Accuses YouTube Co-Founders of Racketeering

Night Court is now in session: Universal Tube and Rollform Equipment Corporation has amended its original complaint against YouTube to include racketeering charges against...

Google Video recommends you watch Matt Cutts’ videos and Hussein’s execution

This isn't a joke: When I hit up Google Video a few moments ago (11pm ET), I noticed on the front page that the...

Making Google Trends Useful

The great blog Data Mining points me to Cognos, which has an enterprise search product (taking advantage of Google OneBox) that spits out graphs...

Microsoft flubs Live branding, but Google ain’t exactly a marketing genius

Microsoft has a problem with branding. While the brands Microsoft, Windows and Vista connotate desktop software and a successful operating system, its latest brand,...

Google Releases New Enterprise Search App

Google today announced a new version of its enterprise search, Google Mini, with updates to secure search, site search and Google OneBox for enterprise.The...

DHS Seizes Yahoo Records While Investigating Money-Laundering Scam

You'd think with all the Nigerian 419 scams being publicized lately that people would stop falling prey to money-laundering schemes from African countries. But...

Chad Hurley: YouTube Will (Eventually) Pay Users

YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley -- that's the one who doesn't look like a resident of Trollzopolis -- said this weekend at the World Economic...

Google Maps Are Inconsistently Edited

Much ado about maps this weekend: Another thread on Slashdot discusses how some potentially sensitive areas, like this nuclear facility in Boston, are blurred...

How to Spam Google Maps

Upon learning that satellites would be flying overhead to capture images used in Google Maps, a couple living in Sydney, Australia, decided to spam...

Googlebombs Away

Google has made several small algorithm changes that may minimize the impact of user campaigns to make a specific site rank well for a...