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Live Search - aka MSN Search - has been showing some of the most aggressive duplicate content filtering I’ve ever seen across any search engine of late. I first noticed it with a client who is performing well on Google, but has dropped down significantly on MSN. The main problem is that he’s in a market that relies on affiliate content - and it’s the same content all of the affiliates are using.

A lawsuit brought forth by recording industry giant EMI against MP3Tunes again raises some fundamental questions about digital music ownership and link aggregation.

They may not have meant for the association, but globs, lube, gunk and goo came to mind, which, if you stretch the metaphor, seem to be the yin to Gloob.tv's yang. The operators (well, spin-meisters) of the site assert that searching for video on YouTube "doesn't have to be like digging through a trash heap…"

Internet video sites such as YouTube are being singled out as helping to encourage high school students in Montreal to participate in food fights.   FOOD FIGHT

OK, despite what you think of me for being a mondo butthead on Sunday, I noticed one thing: Microsofties are quite willing to engage and fight for their product/service's reputation.

She, that is, not Amanda Congdon, plopped herself down in the anchor chair in a catchers mask and pads. Let the tomato throwing begin. Andrew Baron sits in the corner, a frazzled and twitchy mess with nothing to say about the matter. Joanne Colan informs Amanda fans of where she can be found. Rocketboom 2.0, sans foam insulation concerns, launches.

A new site developed by Amnesty International with the help of long-time supporter The Observer UK and the Open Net Initiative provides a way to republish snippets of content from websites banned by various governments on one's blog or site.

According to the Mercury News, the Department of Justice has filed papers to try and force Google to comply with a subpoena issued last year which includes a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.