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It’s been a little more than a year since YouTube announced the launch of its system to identify videos uploaded to its site that contained, without authorization, copyrighted content from television program and movie producers.

Auditude, a video ad technology company, will be bringing its targeting technology to News Corp.'s MySpace portal for Viacom's MTV Networks content.

Talk about a lot of big-media dealmaking.

Courtney Holt, executive vice president of digital music and media at Viacom's MTV Networks, has reportedly not said yes to the offer but may be close.

The two companies continue to blast away at each other in the press, with Viacom pointing to Google's settlement with book publishers and Google taking aim at Viacom's copyright tactics.

In April, Paramount Pictures walked away from a deal to air its movies on pay-TV channel Showtime. Instead, it announced a plan to start up a rival channel with two other longtime Showtime suppliers, MGM and Lionsgate.

To the uninitiated, that might have appeared a nugget of passing interest, as in: Great, another movie channel ...

I guess.

In a bidding skirmish with Viacom, the cable provider reportedly ended up paying $125 million for the women's e-newsletter company.

Google and Viacom reach a deal to protect the personal details of YouTube viewers while evidence is collected for a legal case.

Despite winning an important legal victory against Google last week, Viacom's public image is taking a beating.

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On this week’s EIC squared podcast Dan and I talk about all the search happenings this week–Google and Adobe, Microsoft and Powerset and the never-ending Microhoo saga–as well as the Viacom vs.

Google lawsuit. It was a busy week on the search front. Adobe kicked off the week by announcing Flash is more searchable now.