Addressing copyright infringement issues can be a tricky business. Take the time to plan out your approach so you can get through it quickly and easily.

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

Uses Ajax and some other web2.0-ish features.

'12 Month Internet Millionaire' is launching on Tuesday, October 9 at 12:00 Noon Eastern Time. [Launch Announcement]

London-based TestCard.tv is the latest of video aggregators to launch this year. Pulling content from third-party video-hosting sites like YouTube, Testcard lets you search for content and view it directly in your browser. Channels can be added to your favorites, and shared with friends. There’s little to differentiate TestCard from other tools [...]

Found in the search marketing forums: Analyzing the Competition; Redesigning Without Losing Traffic; Weird Broad Matching; and more.

In honor of Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti's birthday, Google has replaced the "l" in their logo with with a cartoon Pavarotti singing (opera, one would assume, although maybe it's a Britney Spears cover). Pavarotti's Wikipedia has already been updated to note the honor. The Google logo links to a search for "Luciano Pavarotti", which returns a music OneBox, the official site, the Wikipedia entry

MapQuest has launched a new beta site, which represents a new and rearchitected site with a host of new features and capabilities. The new MapQuest blog offers some additional insights and explanations. MapQuest says that the changes respond to user feedback. I'm sure that's true but the onslaught of mapping innovations and competition coming from Google and Microsoft probably figure into the deci

My.9rules, the blogging community, has added a few new features. These come by way of modules that can be added to fill out your user profile further, but are more interactive with site visitors. There’s a new store that you can add to your profile, which lets you buy store items which [...]

Random House is reportedly considering joining Google’s publishing partner program, which means its book may wind up searchable on Google Book Search. As recently as 2005, Random House participated in a lawsuit against Google hoping to cease the scanning of copyrighted material without explicit consent from the publisher.Only two years later, however, Google’s partnership [...]