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First we had Viacom then we had the Belgium newspaper group and now we have another company suing Google. Mediaset a media company is suing Google and Youtube for using copyrighted materials on their website.

According to reuters

"Mediaset, controlled by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, joins others broadcasters seeking compensation from YouTube, a video-sharing website, for copyright infringement.
Mediaset filed suit in a Rome court, the company said in a statement on Wednesday. A YouTube spokeswoman said it did not see the need for the legal case.
"YouTube respects copyright holders and takes copyright issues very seriously," the spokeswoman said in London. Google bought YouTube in 2006.
"There is no need for legal action ... We prohibit users from uploading infringing material and we cooperate with all copyright holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content as soon as we are officially notified," Google said in a separate statement.
Lawsuits and trials in Italian are often lengthy and it is forecast the outcome.

Mediaset said a sample analysis of YouTube at June 10 found "at least 4,643 videos and clips owned by us, equivalent to more than 325 hours of transmission without having rights".
Mediaset said this was equal to the loss of 315,672 days of broadcasting by its three TV channels."

Well i have always said a lawsuit against youtube.com is not the best idea since youtube is a public resource and cannot be threatened. We will loose the freedom of internet if Youtube looses its way by lawsuits.

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Dear site owner or webmaster of ***********,
While we were
indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using
techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html. This appears to be because
your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, the offending party
gains access to an insecure directory that has open permissions. Many times,
they will upload files or modify existing ones, which then show up as spam in
our index.
The following is some example hidden text we found at
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In order to preserve the quality of our search engine, we have
temporarily removed some of your webpages from our search results.

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Financial results Summary as per Google's investor relations:

Q1 Financial Summary
Google's results for the quarter ended March 31,
2008, include the operations of DoubleClick Inc. from the date of acquisition,
March 11, 2008, through the end of the quarter, and are compared to
pre-acquisition results of prior periods. The overall impact of DoubleClick in
the first quarter of 2008 was immaterial to revenue and only slightly dilutive
to both GAAP and non-GAAP operating income, net income and earnings per
share. Google reported revenues of $5.19 billion for the quarter ended March 31,
2008, an increase of 42% compared to the first quarter of 2007 and an increase
of 7% compared to the fourth quarter of 2007. Google reports its revenues,
consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition
costs, or TAC. In the first quarter of 2008, TAC totaled $1.49 billion, or
29% of advertising revenues. Google reports operating income, net income, and
earnings per share (EPS) on a GAAP and non-GAAP basis. The non-GAAP
measures, as well as free cash flow, an alternative non-GAAP measure of
liquidity, are described below and are reconciled to the corresponding GAAP
measures in the accompanying financial tables.
GAAP operating income
for the first quarter of 2008 was $1.55 billion, or 30% of revenues. This
compares to GAAP operating income of $1.44 billion, or 30% of revenues, in the
fourth quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP operating income in the first quarter of
2008 was $1.83 billion, or 35% of revenues. This compares to non-GAAP operating
income of $1.69 billion, or 35% of revenues, in the fourth quarter of 2007.

GAAP net income for the first quarter of 2008 was $1.31 billion
as compared to $1.21 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP net
income in the first quarter of 2008 was $1.54 billion, compared to $1.41 billion
in the fourth quarter of 2007.

GAAP EPS for the first quarter of 2008 was
$4.12 on 317 million diluted shares outstanding, compared to $3.79 for the
fourth quarter of 2007 on 318 million diluted shares outstanding. Non-GAAP
EPS in the first quarter of 2008 was $4.84, compared to $4.43 in the fourth
quarter of 2007.
Non-GAAP operating income, non-GAAP operating margin,
non-GAAP net income, and non-GAAP EPS are computed net of stock-based
compensation (SBC). In the first quarter of 2008, the charge related to
SBC was $281 million as compared to $245 million in the fourth quarter of
2007. Tax benefits related to SBC have also been excluded from these
non-GAAP measures. The tax benefit related to SBC was $51 million in the
first quarter of 2008 and $42 million in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Reconciliations of non-GAAP measures to GAAP operating income, operating margin,
net income, and EPS are included at the end of this release.
GOOG Financial results.

http://investor.google.com/releases/2008Q1.html

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Google (nasdaq: GOOG )'s stock rose $17.99, or 4 percent, to $473.27 among early trading on Friday after Analyse Jeffery Lindsay predicted higher sales and revenue for Google from its search engine advertising programmes. Lindsay said after Google's new approach to AdWords its sales will be increasing in the coming Months.

According to Lindsay Google has been slapping low quality advertisers from their AdWords advertising platform which gives opportunities for reforms to the AdWords campaign. Com score a leading company which tracks clicks in search engines reported lesser number of clicks in February and march but Lindsay says this is mostly due to Google slapping lower bidding advertisers and increasing its price facilitating for higher advertisers. Google has been changing and increasing its AdWords bid prices for a long time and according to Lindsay Com score don't record all these information.

Linday also predicts Google's shares might rise as high as 750$,

Source:forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/04/04/ap4856278.html

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