Search Engine Journal

YouTube has just signed a deal with MGM Studios that would make the appearance of various full-length MGM TV shows and films on YouTube’s content network. Although we’ve managed to see some of MGM films and TV shows on YouTube before, these were not however legitimate clips and were uploaded by viewers and users “illegally”.

But for now, YouTube maybe starting to reorganize its structure and business models and this deal with MGM could paved the way for other major studios to follow. This explains the reason why YouTube has been cleaning up its act and introducing various new features in preparation for the tie-up with major studios. NYT is reporting that initial talks have already begun with Lionsgate and CBS. [Read more →]

Pete Quily has put together a case study on the search and social results of the Barack Obama and John McCain online presence among Google, Google News, Image and Video Search, Technorati, Wordpress and Yahoo along with subscriber numbers from Youtube, Flickr, Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and Friend Feed.

Key findings include :

• Obama’s site had over 1 million pages indexed in Google, 5828% more than McCain
• Obama’s site had 25% more pages linking to it than McCain’s
• McCain has 173% more mentions on Google News
• Obama has 2254% more Twitter Followers

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A Russian Company is suing Google for copyright imfringement of the company’s alleged contextual advertising technology. The said technology was said to be patented by the Russian company - “Era Vodoleya” one year before Google started using it. The company’s CEO said that contextual advertising was invented by them sometime in 1988.

Era Vodoleya (which translates to Age of Aquarius) is also claiming that they have announced their patented technology in 1989. One year after Google started implementing the said technology - and eventually earned tons of advertising revenue since then. And this prompted the Russian company to file a lawsuit now. To get back those earnings which should have been theirs. [Read more →]

Microblogging has been a hot topic recently. It has become a major source of news, a great way to find help and one of the new tactics to promote your business.

While I can find time for only Twitter, I know many people who are quite active at a number of micro-blogging platforms. How they manage to do that is up to them but if you want to spread your word throughout several services here is a cool desktop tool for you: Posty. [Read more →]