If YouTube doesn’t get their copyright-violation-finding-thingee running at 110 percent soon, Chad Hurley may be in for a visit from the scariest people outside of the local IRS field office: Disney lawyers.

With blog posts focusing on companies and their quality of service or lack thereof, what can you do to make sure you know how to handle negative posts about your company on blogs?

How does this help the consumer, and ultimately, companies? Can companies learn crisis management when situations flare up?

Let’s begin with the first question.

As part of its legal fight against publisher and author groups suing it over its book-scanning practices, Google sent subpoenas to Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Yahoo to gather information about their participation in similar book-archiving operations.

If you’ve followed the happenings of the search engine industry during the past year, you probably heard the rumblings about Danny Sullivan leaving SearchEngineWatch and the SES tour. Well, that day is now upon us – today is Sullivan’s last …

Traditional media powerhouses, who spent the better part of the 20th Century perfecting content production and distribution, will have to change everything or risk being left behind. But there are some old-world moves, according to Bear Sterns, that will keep them afloat in a world to be ruled by Google and Yahoo.

We have all heard about the YouTube and Google saga concerning copyrighted material. To their credit they seem to be doing what they can to prevent infringement. That does not seem to be the case with a Paris based video sharing site called DailyMotion.com.

“We find that Web sites have three seconds to make an impression.” – Jeff Rosenblum, Questus

It is irrelevant whether you have a small business or a global empire – information is an asset in any kind of business. And when it is business, everything comes down to profitability.

I’m sure someone like Robert Scoble would be all for the UK’s Press Complaints Commission’s suggestion that bloggers should hold themselves to a voluntary code of conduct, but I say “hell no!”

The XHTML definition demands all tags to be lower-cased.

According to Seroundtable.com and WebMasterWorld Forum there seems to be a small update going on over at Google known as a data refresh.

The health care industry is in many ways a Byzantine maze of paperwork and regulations, with the right knowledge not always immediately on hand to the right person at the necessary time.

The shutdown of Google Answers stands in stark contrast to the heavy traffic Yahoo has been enjoying for its Answers product. And they’re pretty gleeful in Sunnyvale about this.

Previously on the Internet, Apple put the fear of lawyers into podcasters over use of the term “podcast,” sending out cease and desist orders claiming the term was a violation of Apple’s iPod trademark. But one snarky Australian podcaster may have won this battle, and it only cost him a dollar.

Google has announced that Google Answers, the very first non-search project from Google, is closing down forever. Come the end of the year, Answers will stop accepting new questions, although the old pages will remain up as archives.

Jen submitted the following question as a comment to an earlier post:

A landmark court decision found that the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) violated Fourth Amendment protections from unreasonable search and seizure by allowing the government to search and seize email from email service providers.

Google search engine is now available to subscribers of Indian mobile phone company, Airtel.

From rock star Googler Matt Cutts: “One of Google’s biggest strengths is the same as Soylent Green: it’s the people.” Ok, make a note, skip the curried chicken in Google’s cafeterias.

Flash Decompiler is an SWF tool that lets you decompile SWF files and converts SWF documents into FLAs.

The One Laptop Per Child project received its first shipment of $100 Linux laptops yesterday, making the dream of providing free laptops to children around the world a reality.

Here is a simplified IT systems model.

Google has been quietly inviting some websites to participate in a Display Advertising Network, which will place some very profitable CPM ads from Fortune 1000 companies on a publisher’s site.

Dave Winer says we’ll know Web 2.0′s bubble is popped when Google’s stock crashes.