SAN FRANCISCO — After a flurry of last-minute filings on Tuesday, a federal judge must now begin untangling the mountain of competing claims about how a legal settlement granting Google the right to create the world’s largest digital library and bookstore would affect competition, authors’ rights and readers’ privacy… Tweet This Post

Yesterday was September 9th, 2009 (09/09/09) and a special Google Logo appeared at Google’s homepage. Google has different and interesting logos for special dates and i think these changing logos represent the dynamism of the company… Tweet This Post

If you’re the type that knows which date and time it is (I’m not, so I haven’t), you might have noticed that yesterday’s date was somewhat interesting: September 9th, 2009, or 09/09/09… Tweet This Post

Google (GOOG) is developing an online subscription and micropayment system that will enable online content providers to more easily charge for their content… Tweet This Post

If the Newspaper Association of America and Google were to display their relationship on Facebook, the description would read “It’s complicated.” As newspaper revenues continue to tank, the NAA has stepped up its sort of passive-aggressive lashing out at the search giant for, well, essentially being more effective at monetizing the distribution of its content [...]

Former Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and DoubleClick exec Michael Rubenstein is joining AppNexus, a company that provides online advertising via a cloud computing platform. Rubenstein has been named president of the New York-based company, AppNexus said in an e-mail release… Tweet This Post

A long requested feature of Google Voice was a simple one: forward inbound text messages to email. Google Voice users get voicemails auto-transcribed and emailed to them, but text messages were not. Users can read and respond to them online in addition to their phones in the normal way, but email forwarding wasn’t an option. [...]

Aviv Refuah, the young CEO of the public Israeli company Netex Corporation, has managed to score a US patent on an internet search option developed by the company he founded that could well force major Internet search players like Google, Microsoft and Yahoo to cough up royalties for future use of the technology… Tweet This [...]

BRUSSELS, Sept 7 (Reuters) – The French government plans to file its objections to Google Inc’s (GOOG.O) plan to digitize millions of books in a New York court this week, a French Culture Ministry official said on Monday. “France will send its observations to the U.S. court today or tomorrow,” Nicolas Georges, director for books [...]

First Germany, now France. Nicolas Sarkozy’s government has written to a US court urging it to stop a $125 million settlement between Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and US book publishers, warning that Google will have unfair control over European works and a “monopoly (on) digitising European orphan works without permission” (via Reuters)… Tweet This Post

Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will ask European book publishers’ permission before making their works available to U.S. users, in a bid to stay on the right side of EU states’ copyright law. Google confirmed to paidContent:UK in a statement that it will digitize either the full text or excerpts from “commercially available” books—but says “such books [...]

Google Domestic Trends tracks Google search traffic across specific sectors of the economy. The changes in the search volume of a given sector on google.com may provide useful economic insight. We’ve created 23 indexes that track the major economic sectors, such as retail, auto and unemployment… Tweet This Post