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Deep Linking Issues Return As Music Lawsuit Hits Baidu, Sohu

Chinese search engines Baidu and Sohu face millions in penalties as Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, and Universal Music demand satisfaction over links to songs controlled by the labels.

MySpace Music On The Way

MySpace is set to launch a joint music venture with three of the major music labels, according to sources familiar with the deal.

CDs Get Environment Friendly Packaging

The insert in more than 20 Universal Music Group titles being intro

Universal Search Is Good To Webmasters

Google wants site publishers to understand the benefits to having more than just ten blue links show up in search results these days.

Destination Google, Thanks To Universal Search

Delivering search results beyond the ten blue links of yore on Google includes content from other Google properties in universal search.

NBC Universal's Pure Content Company at CES

The International Consumer Electronics Show every January in Vegas is one of the largest trade shows in the world and usually the one event that drives the world gadget wild.  Featuring international debuts of all kinds of new products, some of the early buzz abou

Search Insider Summit - Dominate the Universal SERPs

Do we need to change our entire campaigns to capitalize on universal search? Find out what you can do to better dominate the universal SERPs and grab searchers’ attention.

Universal Strikes Deal with iMeem

The music industry has had a lot of shakeups recently, and here’s yet another. Social media community imeem has signed a licensing deal with Universal Music group, the largest music label in the music industry. Now you can listen to Universal’s streaming music and watch videos free. Rather than make money on the music, they show ads and split ad revenues. This isn’t a new model, of course and I wonder what the artists make from it.

SES Chicago: Soaring Through Universal Search

Searchers represent a valuable commodity to search engines, and the keen-minded technologists behind the algorithms want to make search sites as useful as possible, no matter what the query.

Universal DRM Free Music Speeding Up

The slow march towards universal DRM free music appears about to become a sprint to the finish line.  Recent developments pushing Sony BMG, WMG and other holdouts to reconsider their protectionist positions include: