Much of the anxiety SEOs had over using Google drive due to some legalese in the TOS have been brushed away, but not to the satisfaction of everyone. Google Drive is an online content storage service for personal documents, other content and photos. This all centered around the following specific passage in the Google Drive [...]
SEO NEWS: Google’s Copyright / Patent Woes
April 20th, 2012Google CEO, Larry Page, has been having a tough time with testifying in regard to the copyright infringement case alleging that Google violated 37 patents in developing its Android system for mobile search. While Google gives away the software for free to developers, they do make money from the advertising and sales of mobile apps [...]
Google Coughs Up $125 Million for Book Search Lawsuits
October 28th, 2008Google has been trying to settle several different lawsuits brought by the Authors Guild and the AAP ( Association of American Publishers) over copyrighted works being put online for their much touted Book Search. The class action brought by the Authors Guild members was filed to halt Google’s endeavors to place the books online for [...]
YouTube: Ads and Captions
August 31st, 2008YouTube is making some decent money from monetizing pirated content. They offer choices, now, for large media companies whose copyrighted content is being shown on the video site; remove it, leave it, or leave it and monetize it. 90 % are going for door number three, and YouTube is splitting the take with them (the [...]
An ‘I Told Them So…’
August 17th, 2008A month ago, some of you may remember I suggested that rather get up in arms over ‘pirated content’ appearing on YouTube, the owners of the copyright should consider it free advertising and just get over it! Lo and behold, a few major companies, including CBS, Lionsgate and Universal Music are doing just that – [...]













