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Feed reader/sharing service Shyftr tweaked how it uses feed content after several bloggers complained about the practice.

We'll say this much for Microsoft's most recent letter: at least it got Yahoo talking again.  Yet Jerry Yang and Roy Bostock weren't in the most cooperative of moods when they responded this morning.

Security researchers at CA found the Facebook Beacon keeps Facebook abreast of one's activities on an advertiser's site, whether the Facebook user opted out of that instance or not.

The recent slap a handful of directories experienced was unaccompanied by an explanation from Google, though the general consensus (maybe) was that Google's webspam team was sending a message. Weeks later, Murdok has wrangled a response from Google's Webmaster Central team – sort of.

Google and YouTube don’t usually comment on lawsuits; instead, we’re left to look over various court documents.  These are still helpful, however, and they’ve recently provided an update on the case between YouTube and the Football Association Premier League.  To sum up: YouTube pleaded innocent.

The early results of a click fraud study by Fair Isaac found advertisers being charged for illicit clicks, at a far higher rate than search engines like Google claim takes place.

Google has released its official response to Viacom’s billion dollar lawsuit against its YouTube property, saying that Viacom is threatening the way everyone exchanges information on the internet. Google’s claim is that Viacom’s lawsuit completely ignores the DMCA, and as a result threatens to unravel it and introduce all sorts of chaos for websites and service providers.

The practice of establishing AdWords accounts for the purpose of passing clicks through a third-party malware distributor has drawn a blame-the-user response from Google.