A very under rated but powerful feature of Google search is understanding spelling mistakes and user intent.
Pre-Google-ownership searching for stuff on YouTube was always a drama if you didn’t know the exact right spelling. The result was always ‘no matches found.’
First chink I've seen in the google scraper/entitlement biz model.
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Viacom said its pirated programs on YouTube generate about 1.2 billion video streams, based on a study from an outside consultant.
The search function on Google video is now listing results from YouTube alongside the usual Google Video results.
For example a search for "cars" returns results with YouTube results underneath and when clicked on you are redirected through to the YouTube site.
The now Google owned YouTube took a small but meaningful step away from user generated content and towards corporate friendliness today by "hiding comments" - via NY Times
In an effort to make it easier for people to publish their own videos (and not copyrighted material) YouTube will now be letting people record directly from a webcam and microphone straight into YouTube via Arstechnica.com
TOKYO - The popular video-sharing site YouTube deleted nearly 30,000 files after a Japanese entertainment group complained of copyright infringement.
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This is an issue that has been going on in the background for a little while but now is getting some main stream press in Wired Magazine
Interest in gadgets seems to have waned recently, but I am still a gadgets man. How about this one. Anyone who has used it have any views on the iRiver U10 . Good, bad, indifferent??
The NSA has been amassing a record of ordinary domestic phone calls. Qwest did not participate in the program, but it sounds as though AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth did.
9/11 Theories will never get air time on western controlled telly. And this is threadwatch so shouldn't we point to some non-SEO threads?
This one is brilliant. Whether you believe it or not, it's great TV.
Tivo, makers of the popular digital video recorder by the same name, recently won their lawsuit against EchoStar.
TiVo claimed EchoStar violated its patent for a "multimedia time warping system" to pause, rewind or fast-forward live TV programs by recording them on a hard drive.
The WSJ reports that many popular ABC shows will be streamed over the WWW free:
Walt Disney Co. plans to make much of its newest and most popular programming on ABC and other channels available free anytime on the Web, in a move that could speed the transformation of television viewing habits and help revive the struggling TV advertising business.
The Yip Yips meet the computer: video, a pivotal moment in young Aaron and DaveN's childhood.
Bruce Sterling recently spoke at SXSW. Well worth a listen if you like techy and political speeches.
Google partnered with the government to offer free access to National Archives videos.
The WSJ has an article about Amazon entering the music player market, potentially as early as this summer:
I haven't seen any numbers released to know if the Google Video program generated any significant revenue or not, but CBS is already making moves to cut the Mountain View Crew out of a piece of the pie.
CBS to sell new Survivor episodes on own site
