Are Search Engine Spiders Infringing on Copyright?

Last Friday (Sept 15 th) a Belgium court dealt a stunning blow against Google and its Google News search service. The court is now forbidding the popular search engine from indexing Belgian newspaper content without paying each newspaper for the use of their content....

Google’s Reputation Goes to Dell

Does anyone remember the hissy-fit Google threw at the beginning of this month over the default settings of Microsoft’s new web browser IE7? To recap, Google gave Microsoft a week of headaches, going as far as complaining to the US Department of Justice over the...

Apple Computers Take a Bite Out of ApplePie

What’s in a name? Lee Roberts makes a shopping cart, content management solution known as ApplePieCart, or more appropriately, he used to. On April 11, 2006, Lee received a note from Apple Computer’s lawyers demanding he stop using a name that might...

Google Posts the Truth About Traffic Power

Something interesting is happening at the Googleplex. Just a week after publicly slapping BMW for using cloaking and doorway techniques, Google has confirmed a much larger penalty it applied in 2004 against what was once one of the largest SEO firms in the world,...