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Internet top dogs chasing the cash this autumn

Seven days of payouts and potential payoffs played out in the online world this week, as some of the top dogs in digital set about making plans to monetize their high-tech offerings. Find out which notorious net names have their fingers on the button with the keyed up and clued in bigmouthmedia newsletter.

Google went into this week with its flag flying and the hope that some extra cash will be lining its pockets soon as the search goliath unveiled its price comparison feature - a direct attack on the sites that draw the clicks of savvy shoppers the world over. The Mountain View giant also looks set to finally wring some cash from YouTube as Google hopes ContentID will persuade copyright holders to enjoy revenue rather than pulling their protected material.

This week also revealed a Demo survey claiming that, contrary to the beliefs of many, illegal music downloaders are amongst the highest spenders when it comes to actually purchasing recordings. This will be music to the ears of some, although Google's OneBox music service could be playing to a tune favoured by those who want to stay on the right side of the law.

Facebook had the law on its side this week, as the social networking site was awarded $711m (£434m) in damages from Sanford "Spamford" Wallace, while Google has set the net world a-pondering the nonexistent town of Argleton confounding Google Maps users.

Last week Bing and Google stole the social thunder, but this week sees rumours that Yahoo! will be delving into the social search pool by teaming up with OneRiot to provide real time results. But that isn't the only new direction the struggling search engine is taking, Yahoo! also plans to introduce an open source version of its Traffic Server software to aid those planning cloud computing services.

Reinvention is rife and the new tunes are playing, so make sure you're listening and ready for the next shake up by getting on down with the bigmouthmedia newsletter.

Yahoo! offers open source cloud server
Yahoo!'s Traffic Server software offers a high-performance server for cloud computing services.

Argleton, Lancashire becomes internet sensation
Argleton - a destination in Lancashire - becomes famous for the sole reason that it does not exist.

Illegal music downloaders spend most on recordings
A new survey claims that, despite the popular demonization of music downloaders, they are in fact among the section of society that spends the most on music recordings.

ContentID could see Google profiting from YouTube
Google hopes to boost YouTube's coffers by convincing copyright holders to make advertising revenue when users upload their content to YouTube.

Facebook wins $711m from spammer
Facebook has been awarded $711m in damages from Sanford "Spamford" Wallace

Google launches price comparison feature
Google has unveiled its own answer to dedicated price comparison websites such as GoCompare and ComparetheMarket.

Google launches OneBox music service
Google has unveiled its new music streaming and download service, breaking into the online music market currently dominated by Apple.

Yahoo! to introduce social search competitor
In the wake of Google and Microsoft's deals with Twitter, Yahoo! is rumoured to be teaming up with OneRiot to provide users with real-time search results from their social networks.

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