The culture secretary has said that he wants Google to “make life more difficult” for filesharing websites by blocking them, or downgrading their prominence in search results. Read the full story

One of the original founders of MySpace, Tom Anderson, has admitted that he “choked” before Facebook realised the vision he had set out for his own social media network. Read the full story

“Google’s power now threatens to make Rupert Murdoch look like a village newsagent.”

The Guardian‘s John Harris claims the search giant is approaching the point when it could potentially control “all information”.

(Source: The Guardian)

Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt has admitted that the search company missed out on “the friends thing”, and is now playing catch-up to the social networking revolution inspired by the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Read the full story

The past year has been marked by a watershed development in online advertising thanks to the expediency of ‘real-time bidding’, the process that makes display ads yet more relevant to browsers. Read the full story

Google’s plans to digitally archive centuries-worth of newspapers and make them available online have been abandoned. It has said it will now focus its attentions on helping publishers make money from the internet. Read the full story

YouTube has partnered with the American journalism museum Newseum and launched a new channel dedicated to journalists who have given their lives reporting from the front line. Read the full story

Any plans to make illicit file-sharing websites illegal could set a “disastrous precedent”, according to Google’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt. Read the full story