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Schmidt hints at coming YouTube ads
 MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--YouTube users soon will see some new advertisements around their online videos. Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said the company is working on new ads for the video site in a <a title="Google addresses antitrust issue on Yahoo ad deal -- Thursday, May 8, 2008" href="http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9939473-7.html" >meeting here with reporters before Google's shareholder meeting</a>, but he was cagey with details. <div class="cnet-image-div float-right" style="width: 270px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080229/EricSchmidtsmile_270x210.png" alt="" width="270" height="210" />Google ...</div>

Google addresses antitrust issue on Yahoo ad deal
 Update 3:10 p.m. PT: I added more quotations from the Google executives MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google's top executives on Thursday gave a glimpse into how it might try to deflect antitrust concerns of a possible ad-sharing deal with rival Yahoo, advising observers to look at the overall ...

Yahoo tests revamped search with 'Glue Pages'
 Update 3:30 p.m. PDT: A correction: Although only travel modules could be sponsored at launch, now all can be. Also, there's no display ad opportunity at present, though the sponsorship can mean more prominence than text ads. Update 11:45 p.m.: I updated with new detail ...

Google unveils Web Security for corporations
Update at 8:15 a.m.: The verb tense has been changed to reflect the announcement's release, and a link has been added. Google <a class="external-link" href="http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2008/05/google-web-security-for-enterprise-now.html">announced</a> Thursday its Web Security for Enterprise, which is designed to protect corporate Web surfers from viruses, spyware, and malicious Web sites. It also extends ...

Google plugs open-source security holes with oCERT
Google is <a class="external-link" href="http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2008/05/06/google_launches_ocert/">lending its security expertise to the open-source community</a> to help plug security holes with its <a class="external-link" href="http://ocert.org/">oCERT</a> team. While much remains to be seen as to how successfully or actively oCERT will operate, it's a welcome addition to the open-source world by Google. oCERT, short for the open-source ...

Plastic bag conquers Google Street View
 Privacy advocates should take note of an effective way to avert the prying eyes of Google Street View: the lowly plastic bag. <div class="cnet-image-div float-right" style="width: 400px;" ><img class="cnet-image" src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/bto/20080507/alaska_bag_street_view_5.7.2008_400x384.bmp" alt="Google Street View foiled by a plastic bag." width="400" height="384" />Google Street View foiled by a plastic bag.(Credit: Google)</div> A <a class="external-link" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=64.84978,-147.700153&cbp=1,0,,0,5&panoid=y1f1C0fhFvee1XRLSpM2Hw&ll=64.851016,-147.689123&spn=0.025642,0.080338&z=14">block of College Road in Fairbanks, Alaska</a>, along with portions of <a class="external-link" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=64.849147,-147.709518&cbp=1,0,,0,5&t=h&panoid=lzLfh5X0F1UZfS2X23MC8A&ll=64.850761,-147.706547&spn=0.006411,0.020084&z=16">Minnie St.</a> and <a class="external-link" href="http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&layer=c&cbll=64.846358,-147.697503&cbp=1,0,,0,5&t=h&panoid=o_wNx8mKozQO67ku3s_ykg&ll=64.847971,-147.698951&spn=0.006411,0.020084&z=16">Third St.</a> show ...

Google will take Viacom suit to Supreme Court
 Google is willing to fight Viacom all the way to the Supreme Court in the companies' legal battle over YouTube and pirated videos, but Viacom is taking a hard line of its own, executives from the companies said Wednesday. David Eun, Google's vice president of content partnerships, <a class="external-link" href="http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D90GNJ880.htm">told Dow Jones Newswires</a> ...

Yahoo to rake in $1 billion from Google ads? Doubtful
 Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney has been widely cited for his February analysis showing some strong financial benefits of a deal under which Yahoo would use Google to supply search ads. With that scenario now appearing more likely, he's issued a new report on the subject that projects as much ...

McAfee deal aims to make Yahoo search safer
Updated May 6, 5:50 AM PDT to reflect the actual announcement from the two companies. Yahoo and McAfee announced a partnership Tuesday under which potentially unsafe Web sites appearing in Yahoo search results will be flagged as risky. The deal, an exclusive for Yahoo, uses McAfee SiteAdvisor technology to ...

Opening up Google's AppEngine with Morph Labs
<a class="external-link" href="http://code.google.com/appengine/">Google's AppEngine</a> looks great. It's a way to build web applications and run them on Google's "cloud" infrastructure. The downside? Your applications effectively become Google's applications because there's no easy way to move them elsewhere. You have to run them using Google's authentication engine, framework, file system, APIs, etc. Free as in Google's. Enter <a class="external-link" href="http://www.web2journal.com/read/558004.htm">Morph Labs</a>. <blockquote>[Morph] claims to have done all the back-end cutwork to make it easy for developers to get their software up and running as a service on Amazon's Web Services (AWS), freeing them from Google's Microsoft-like vendor lock-in.... ...

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