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News archives for the week of May 29, 2006
Jun. 1, 2006
Yahoo and rule-breaking videos
By accepting homemade videos, Yahoo risks showing material that infringes on copyrights or
contains pornographic scenes. Both of those problems have cropped up on YouTube, despite
restrictions prohibiting users from posting such content. Like YouTube, Yahoo will depend on
its own users and copyright holders to flag rule-breaking videos so they can be removed
from the site.
May 31, 2006
Google's business model took a few years to get it right
Eric Schmidt was quick to point out that Google would probably not be immediately successful
in such new ventures. "Some people forget, even inside our own company, that the business
model that has been working so well for us today took a few years to get right," he said.
What's more, Jonathan Rosenberg, Google's senior v.p. of product management, added during
the call that the company is also experimenting with different ways to make money with its
fairly new video search product.
May 30, 2006
A television-enabled Google search engine
This will enable viewers to use Google to realise Schmidt’s vision of allowing viewers to use a
television-enabled Google search engine to watch any film or programme they want via the internet.
There has been industry scepticism as to whether the internet will be able to sustain the volume of
data needed to allow television audiences to stream live video into their living rooms en masse. But
Page, currently president of Google products, told The Business: “People are inventive and the history
of the internet proves that it can be adapted to carry whatever level of data is required.”
May 29, 2006
Search engines such as Google use contextual text ads to generate revenue
Search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN use contextual text ads to generate revenue, and
such engines may be used to present advertising. Amongst the most popular social networking sites
are MySpace, Blogger, Classmates Online, the brand new video forum YouTube, MSN Groups, AOL Hometown,
Yahoo Groups, Six Apart TypePad and Xanga, a tool for online diaries (listed in order of popularity).
