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Reading IP Patents Like Tea Leaves

Bruce B. Cahan — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 19:45:01 -0700

I've been reading through a study of Google's patents prepared by Stephen Arnold entitled Google Version 2.0: The Predator.

How close is "very close"?

Zohar Efroni — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:41:13 -0700

Earlier this week Google's CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted saying that YouTube is “very close” to turning on a filtering system that should prevent copyright content from being uploaded to the video site. At the moment it is not clear how exactly this filtering system will work.

User Data = 2 x Video

Christian Laux — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:58:02 -0700

Anyone still in doubt whether user data is valuable? Take a look at the news and learn: User data is worth the double of what Google paid for YouTube –– Google just bought DoubleClick for USD 3.1 bn.

'Surveillance and You' Civic Forum

Christoph Engemann — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:55:51 -0700

'Surveillance and You' is the title of this years Civic Forum of the Science, Technology & Society Program at UT Austin. The one day event will host an expert panel of academics as well as former CIA officers and armed forces members.

Search Law & Policy @ Haifa

Stefan Bechtold — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:51:30 -0800

Search is becoming an increasingly important topic in cyberlaw. After several sessions and conferences looking at the issue (including at CFP 2004, Yale Law School and in Berlin), Niva Elkin-Koren and Michael Birnhack from the University of Haifa in Israel have now put together a great conference on The Law of Search Engines, which I am currently attending. I won't do a full blogging of the conference, but I just wanted to make a few notes of what I found particularly interesting:

youtube vs. google vs. revver (from Chris Pirillo)

Colette Vogele — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:52:09 -0800

This is too funny. I had to share it here. Check out Chris Pirillo's comparison of YouTube vs. GoogleVideo vs. Revver. When I do the comparison from my DSL w/ a macbook, it seems like the YouTube and Revver sites load and run fine. The Google Video one (in the middle), however, keeps buffering and stalling... In a

Keywording and Trademarks Paper

Zohar Efroni — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 06:28:47 -0800

I've just posted a new SSRN working paper on keywording advertising in search engines. Comments are welcome.