other search engines

It’s no secret that the entertainment industries believe search engines are not delivering enough when it comes to protecting copyright works.

Just last month, the RIAA and IFPI accused Google of massively profiting from piracy, while putting up barriers to make life difficult for rightsholders.

We recently mentioned the latest round of Microsoft's antitrust fight, dating back to some of its actions around Windows 95.

To be clear, I think the action against Microsoft is pretty silly. It's pretty clear that the market is quite capable of dealing with any perceived Microsoft "monopoly" and routing around it.

Regulator PhonePayPlus imposes maxiumum fines on AT

In May last year the U.S.

District Court of California issued a permanent injunction against BitTorrent search engine isoHunt.

There are plenty of ways to discover new content on BitTorrent, but searching is still the preferred method for most people.

What they are searching for should therefore give a good picture of what the latest trends are. Today we present the BitTorrent Zeitgeist 2010, a list of the 100 most searched for phrases and keywords on one of the most used public BitTorrent indexes this year.

Every year Google and other search engines produce a year’s end list of the most searched for phrases and keywords.

BitTorrent search engine isoHunt is fighting the permanent injunction issued by the District Court of California last summer in their case against the MPAA. isoHunt contests the imposition of a site-wide keyword filter based on a list of movie industry keywords.

By doing so, the search engine also makes a case for the public's 'freedom of search', not just on BitTorrent, but on the Internet in general.

In May this year the U.S.

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI), the UK’s main recording industry trade body, came out with guns blazing against Google today.

BPI says that search engines like Google are as popular as P2P applications as a source for illegal downloads.

As the EU continues to use its Tim Wu-sian definition of monopoly where "being successful" equals "monopoly," it is has taken the step that everyone expected and has begun investigating Google for supposedly anti-competitive practices with regards to "competing search engines" such as Foundem.

Foundem has been on this kick for a while.