Note to bloggers and press

If you are able to contact Google for formal answers, please be aware that they may throw at you everything including the kitchen sink. Don't let that confuse you. I'm suggesting the following "logically tight" questions to ask:1. On July 7th 2008 Google made an unannounced change to the YouTube API ToS, which introduced a new restriction on commercial use. Can you positively confirm that this ToS change was NOT initiated or modeled in relation to a YouTube API powered website called Totlol (totlol.com) which has launched two months prior? ref link 2. On July 7th 2008 Totlol was posted as a featured project on a Google Code blog. Stephanie Liu of the YouTube API team has indicated in an e-mail to Ron the creator of Totlol that there has been a delay in posting. Can you positively confirm that she was not instructed to delay the posting until the new ToS were published? ref link 3. At the 2009 Google I/O there was a session called Best Practices for Writing Great, Monetizable YouTube Apps with presentation by Kuan Yong of YouTube. Can you confirm that at the time the presentation was prepared Kuan was free to include whatever examples he wished and that there was no instruction preventing him from including Totlol. ref link If you are able to get answers to those questions and you think the answers shed new light on the story - please use the contact form . You may also use the contact form for anything else.