Google Inc. on Friday took a swipe at media conglomerate Viacom Inc. which is suing for $1 billion over "massive copyright infringement" by its video sharing Web site YouTube.

Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, speaking with reporters at a hotel bar at the 25th annual Allen & Co. moguls meeting, said litigation was the foundation of the company that owns the MTV Networks, Paramount movies studio and video game developer Harmonix. Read more »

We’ve seen some ridiculously false rumors over the past few weeks, so we’re not buying into this one until we see a press release. But it does make logical sense: Vecosys hears from a “VERY trusted source” that Google is buying the RSS management and advertising service Feedburner, and that the deal would have been announced sooner if it wasn’t for that itsy bitsy DoubleClick purchase. Read more »

We’ve looked around and we’re pretty confident that Marketing Pilgrim has the first screenshots of Google Print integrated with AdWords.

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How much did I use Google? Apparently a lot more often than even I could speculate. For the last two weeks, I've had google.com blocked at both work and home. The amount of data they're gathering on me is frightening. Not because of Google, but because I'm positive the government will legislate their way into Google's database sooner or later and start labeling people as suspicious. Political paranoia aside, let us look at the fact here; Life on the internet without using Google is hard. Read more »

The benefits - if your Adsense account has been disabled or banned by Google, AdsenseClub will arrange a new Adsense account for you with 99% success rate plus some free Adwords coupons.

 

Like the Adsense toolbars on eBay, AdsenseClub may well be one the biggest Adsense scams around. And considering that hundreds and thousands of publishers have their Adsense account disabled, some ex-Adsense publishers may fall in the trap.

 

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The next time you Google for the world's most valuable brand the search engine is likely to throw up: Google!

 

Research consultancy Millward Brown's second annual brand survey covering 39,000 brands says that at over $66 billion, web search engine Google has replaced Microsoft as the most valuable brand in the world.

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