Posted by Sarah Bird, Esquire May It Please the Mozzers, Today we’re going to contrast two recent judicial opinions on the use of a competitor’s trademark in meta-tags. Same issues; Different outcomes. Let’s take a very brief look at each case. North American Medical Corp. v Axiom2008 WL 918411 (11th Cir. April 7, 2008) The [...]

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The BrandVerity Blog noticed that Yahoo started displaying the business’s location under the search ads. For example, a search on lawyers in Yahoo returns several ads that display New York under them. Why New York? Because I am based in New York. If you are located in California, you might see California labeled under the [...]

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Below is what happened in search today, as reported onSearch Engine Land and from other places across the web From Search Engine Land: Yahoo Displaying Geo Criteria Of Search AdsThe BrandVerity Blog noticed that Yahoo started displaying the business’s location under the search ads. For example, a search on lawyers in Yahoo returns several ads [...]

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Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd. Did it really? As it turns out, probably so — by about a minute. Reading some of the accounts, you’d get the impression Twitter seemed to alert the [...]

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Contrary to some earlier reports, Google’s new FriendConnect, launching today, is not focused on data portability or a direct answer to MySpace “Data Availability” or the new Facebook Connect. While there’s a data portability dimension, it’s focused on the flip side of the equation: site owners who want to make their sites more “social.” Click [...]

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