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Brazil Gets Google To Fight Child Porn

According to Sergio Suiama, a Sao Paulo federal prosecutor, around 50,000 pedophilia-related complaints have been connected to Orkut.  By way of response, Google plans to implement a filtering system and retain information for a longer period, but still won't share problem profiles with authorities.

Orkut Promotes Insignificant Photo Capabilities

A lot of signs indicate that Google is preparing Orkut for something big; it may well want the service to compete with the likes of MySpace and Facebook.  But the latest update - allowing users to keep 100 photos in their “orkut albums” - isn’t impressing too many people.

UOL, Buscape Get Accounts With Google

I often ignore unusual punctuation marks (“Yahoo!” becomes “Yahoo,” for example), but “Buscape” sounds like some futuristic thing involving mass transport.  So, instead, I’m here to report that Google has signed deals with UOL and Buscapé in Brazil.

YouTube Wins Brazilian Court Case

YouTube appears to be having a streak of good luck - first we learned that a ban in Thailand had been lifted, and now Google’s video-sharing site has won a court case in Brazil (this case had also, as it so happens, resulted in a block).

PPC Traffic; International YouTube; Safer Results

SERoundtable looks at a WebmasterWorld thread to find out What Type of Traffic Can You Expect from Yahoo Ads Compared to Google Ads.

Google, Indians Join Forces To Limit Logging

Most businesses have a formal and structured environment; at Google, jeans are the norm, and dogs are allowed at work.  But in a move that goes far beyond normal business practices - think pygmy marmosets instead of Great Danes - the search engine company has announced a development involving a tribe of Brazilian Indians.

YouTube Goes To Nine New Nations

From our perspective, it’s going international.  From theirs, it’s becoming local.  But either way you look at it, YouTube is launching targeted sites for Ireland, the UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Japan, Brazil, and France.

YouTube Tossed Out Of Thailand

In September of 2006, the elected government of Thailand was overthrown.  In April of 2007, YouTube was shown the door.  That’s right - YouTube has (yet again) been banned in an entire country.

More Trouble In Brazil For YouTube

YouTube appears to be out of options in Brazil.

Brazil Wants YouTube Shut Down

A court in Brazil has just ordered the shut down of Google's YouTube for failing to remove a celebrity sex video from the site.