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Tuesday April 15, 2008

Google Enlists Video ID Tools To Combat Child Pornography

Google will enlist its image recognition technology, currently used to help trace copyright violations on its YouTube video site, to combat online child pornography. Google is working with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children on a project to create an automated system for analysts to more quickly search the center’s video and image databases to identify files that contain images or videos of child pornography victims. The project is applying so-called video fingerprinting technology, which uses pattern recognition to enable analysts to search and identify abuse on the Web.

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN1419979320080414
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/04/building-software-tools-to-find-child.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7347476.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/15/google_ncmec/
http://www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=3644

Hitwise Reveals Google Leading Search In March, YouTube Up 32% Year-over-Year

According to a Hitwise report Google maintains its position as the dominant search leader, up from February, accounting for 67.25 percent of all U.S. searches in March. Yahoo follows with 20.29 percent of U.S. searches among the leading search engine providers, followed by MSN and Ask. Google owned YouTube grabbed 73.18 percent of all U.S. visits to online video sites in March, representing a 32 percent year-over-year increase, despite a 7 percent drop in traffic year over year in March to online video sites as a whole.

http://www.hitwise.com/press-center/hitwiseHS2004/google-receives-67-march-2008.php
http://newteevee.com/2008/04/14/youtube-up-32-year-over-year/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_dominates_video.php

Federated Media Closes On $50 Million

Federated Media Publishing, which represents advertising sales for a network of Web sites has finalized a $50 million investment from late-stage backer Oak Investment Partners, the company said late Monday. Federated Media founder John Battelle said in an interview that FM plans to use the money to grow its network of publishing partners and build out a creative services group for marketing campaigns that would run on its network. The funds could also be used to invest in FM's publishing partners, Battelle said. The company represents ad sales for sites including Boing Boing, Digg, and Silicon Alley Insider.

http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9918660-7.html?tag=nefd.top

[edited by: Vanessa_Zamora at 1:12 pm (utc) on April 16, 2008]