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News archives for the week of March 5, 2007

Mar. 8, 2007
MSN Live Search ackowledges it needs improvement in its market share
In 2006, Payne did acknowledged that Microsoft needed to show some good improvement in market share. He said at the time "I'm hoping this does turn around, without a doubt." He added "we believe that it's still very early in search, and that there's still significant room for differentiation. Prior to this, I don't think we've really gotten enough differentiation in order to win people back."

Mar. 6, 2007
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google talks on the future of data storage
Speaking more broadly on the shift to software and storage "in the cloud," or at a remote facility, Schmidt said the trend is largely inevitable. "If you drop your computer, it's a disaster," said Schmidt. "Any rational person would want to put his or her data somewhere else. That transition is happening right now and I think it will intensify over time."

Mar. 5, 2007
Google's nasty copyright issues
Greatly complicating matters are ugly copyright issues. Pirated clips began appearing on YouTube almost since its inception in 2005. One in particular, a "Saturday Night Live" skit, even helped put the site on the map. Now that Google has paid $1.65 billion for YouTube's ownership (this brings with it legal liabilities of all kinds) YouTube is under more pressure than ever before to strike deals to publish those clips legitimately, and to remove the ones that it dosen't have permission to republish.