Six music blogs hosted by Google’s blogging services have been accused of violating the company’s terms of service by allegedly posting unauthorized copyright material and have been booted from the sites. Google CEO Eric Schmidt sits between Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris (left) and Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, at the Vevo launch party. The blogs that were hosted by Google’s... 

My colleague Molly Wood called it a privacy nightmare, but to many, Google’s new social-networking tool Buzz is at its root an unwanted, unasked for pest. We didn’t opt in to some newfangled Twitter system and we don’t particularly want to see updates from contacts we never asked to follow creep up in our Buzz in-box. Call us what you will, but for curmudgeonly types like us, Buzz isn’t so much... 

“Ask an Expert” is an occasional feature where we ask ecommerce experts questions from online merchants. For this installment, we address a question about ranking on search engines for major keywords. It comes from Jeramie Westbay, owner operator for Crazy Ed’s Roadkill, an online store that sells beef jerky. For the answer, we turn to Andrew Hazen, the founder and CEO of Prime Visibility, a Long Island,...