Have a look at some of the big stories about the Internet so far this week. Here are a few headlines and links:
Rank outsider sues Google over zero score
Music industry to sue Yahoo China
UK lawsuit proceeds against Russian MP3 site
Image-based spam on the rise
Yesterday, I promoted the opportunity for people to tell ICANN, the Internet’s [...]

So the ‘Google Generation’ (delightful, young people are once again defined by a multinational corporation) are all unabashed plagiarists. Stupid kids! Everybody knows the point of formal education is to learn how to conceal your sources correctly. From high within her ivory tower at Leeds Met University, plagiarism expert Professor Sally Brown is telling us [...]

What’s the best thing that Google’s ever done? Adwords, that’s pretty clever if you’re a businessy type. Analytics, that’s pretty cool if you’re a webmastery type. The search engine itself, that’s pretty fantastic if you’re any type at all (unless you’re in China).
But all that stuff is secondary in my mind to Google’s towering achievement [...]

Since I logged on this morning and read about Amazon and this weekend’s change of search allegiance from Google to Microsoft for A9.com and alexa.com, America has woken and the debate has moved on a pace.
The New York Times has published an article discussing just how potentially serious this battleground is and it is being [...]

The latest news from the Internet super brands arena is that eBay has been in talks with Yahoo! and Microsoft to assess the growing threat from Google.
A Times Online article cites a concern that Google has turned aggressive and is wielding it’s pocket full of cash in a dangerous way, buying and developing technologies [...]

Disclaimer: I know what ‘beta’ means!
Up until a few days ago I was using the new Windows Live Mail beta, instead of my usual Hotmail account. Now I’m back to good old Hotmail. Why? Mainly because the new system doesn’t work in Firefox. In my tricked-out browser of choice the whole Live Mail system is [...]

Google has bought a new search technology called Orion and along with it - inventor Ori Allon.
The new technology, also coveted by Microsoft and Yahoo!, finds pages where the content is about a topic strongly related to the key word. It then returns a section of the page, and lists other topics related to the [...]

Every morning I check my RSS feeds and you can guarantee that one name will come up more than any other - but more than that - this company will be mentioned in a positive light nine times out of ten. The company is of course Google. I guess it could have been Microsoft, but [...]