Seems the privacy advocates see Google as 'evil'. Or at least the animated cartoon aired by Watchdog on the Times Square jumbotron suggested that yesterday.

Only two years ago, the Associated Press tried to stop bloggers from using their content. Threatening to charge sites that used their content and demaned that The Drudge Reports pull headlines and story briefs from their site.

The Isreali start-up AOL bought three years ago to compete in the Q&A market has been rebranded as AOL Answers this week.

If you haven't already seen it YouTube has recently added two targeting features which enable advertisers to have more control on what videos their ads are placed on.

Today Apple launched Ping. You can get the full story on ClickZ who covered the announcement. Were you expecting apple to launch a music social network today?

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At some point during the crush of Connected Marketing Week, Experian Hitwise announced the launch of two new premium Search Intelligence products that can improve your search marketing performance.

Following their new computer to phone calling service Google have launched a new beta feature for Gmail users, called priority inbox.

Hot on the heels of the organic results integration in the US, Yahoo & Bing both announced today that now is the time to begin preparing your paid search accounts for the final integration, in which Microsoft Adcenter will power all paid search ads on Yahoo! Search in the U.

One of the events that was part of Connected Marketing Week was a one-day forum on the "Future of Display: Ad Networks and Exchanges," which was co-programmed by the IAB Networks and Exchanges committee.

Last friday, Google launched the Googlebeat channel on Youtube, which aims to bring the value of services like Google Trends & Hot Trends, Google Insights for Search and Year-end Zeitgeist to a wider audience.