Google is going to ruin youtube.com ... therefore, I could not give a rats about google. Burn in hell you pigs.

How are they going to ruin youtube DT?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/breaking-news/google-promises-to-dump-user-data-after-18-months/2007/06/13/1181414368324.html

Faced with concerns by European online privacy advocates, Google is promising to obscure information about people's Internet searches after only 18 months.

Google's global privacy counsel Peter Fleischer revealed late Monday that the Mountain View, California, firm's policy change in a letter to the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party in Belgium.

Fleischer's message was a response to a demand by Article 29 that Google justify why it doesn't conform to the Resolution on Privacy Protection and Search Engines adopted in London in November of 2006.

The resolution calls on search engines to erase data linking people to searches when sessions end unless they get permission to keep it.

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/EU-backs-Google-data-retention-limit/2007/06/13/1181414376349.html

Google Inc's. decision to scale back how long it keeps personally identifiable data accumulated from its web users is "a good step", the European Union's top security official said.

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Gripes prompt Vista to modify search

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Gripes-prompt-Vista-to-modify-search/2007/06/21/1182019265134.html

Microsoft has agreed to modify Vista operating system after complaints its desktop search function puts Google and others at a disadvantage, a source familiar with the case told Reuters on Tuesday.

The US Justice Department and Microsoft are expected to provide details of the proposed changes in a joint report filed in federal court later on Tuesday, the source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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EU body to expand web search probe

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/EU-body-to-expand-web-search-probe/2007/06/21/1182019283775.html

The European Union's data watchdog will expand its investigation of web search engines beyond sector leader Google and write to that company, a European Commission source said.

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EBay returns to Google advertising

http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/EBay-returns-to-Google-advertising/2007/06/23/1182019413347.html

After a spat between two of the world's largest internet companies, online auctioneer eBay has resumed running advertising through Google.

EBay pulled ads from the world's most popular search engine on June 11 in what the auction company billed as an experiment to determine the most effective means of getting customers to visit the shopping site.

The move, however, had smacked of blatant retaliation as it coincided with a June 14 party that Google had been planning to siphon attention from eBay's annual user celebration in Boston.

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Australian internet pirate jailed in US

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Australian-internet-pirate-jailed-in-US/2007/06/23/1182019404924.html

Infamous Australian Internet pirate Hew Raymond Griffiths has been sentenced to more than four years in a US jail.

Griffiths, who once boasted he would never be caught, was extradited from Australia to the US in February.

He was the leader of DrinkOrDie, the world's largest international internet piracy group.

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Google seeks to extend Microsoft decree

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Google-seeks-to-extend-Microsoft-decree/2007/06/26/1182623872052.html

Google Inc has asked a US federal judge to extend the consent decree that settled the landmark antitrust case against Microsoft Corp in order to address competition concerns involving the Windows Vista operating system.

Google told the judge overseeing the 2002 consent decree that even though Microsoft has agreed to modify Vista to address the concerns, "more may need to be done to provide a truly unbiased choice of desktop search products".