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Google to Extend Ad-brokering to TV Ads
Google will extend its ad-brokering and begin buying and selling television ad time. Traditional media owners are panicking at the speed and scale of changes brought about by the internet. [Read more] [Read more]
Microsoft Announces MSN Book Search
Microsoft has announced MSN book search that will include the content from books, academic materials, periodicals and other print resources. [Read more] [Read more]
Microsoft Funds OCA for Digital Library Project
Microsoft will fund Open Content Alliance to digitize 150,000 public domain books over the next year. Yahoo agreed to power the OCA earlier this month. [Read more] [Read more]
Web Users and Online Shoppers Fear ID Theft
Web users, 80%, fear identity theft according to a national survey. Online shoppers, 54%, read a site’s privacy policy or user agreement before buying. [Read more] [Read more]
eBay Pixel Page Most Visited Million Dollar Homepage
eBay Pixel Page has become the number one most visited Million Dollar Homepage. Consumers get to view those hard to find gifts and advertisers get 20 cents per pixel advertising. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Contributes $350,000 for Open Source Software
Google has contributed $350,000 to support open source, free software. The Oregon University will work on software and hardware development and help projects worldwide. [Read more] [Read more]
Google Base to Rival eBay?
Several Blogs have reported that Google has started a new service Google Base that allows users to post events, housing, jobs and products. eBay’s shares fell 5.6%. [Read more] [Read more]
Answers Partners with Wikipedia
Answers.com and Wikipedia have announced a partnership to feature one-click access to the encyclopedia. They will share the ad revenues. [Read more] [Read more]
Richard Bang Adds Adventure to Yahoo!
Richard Bangs has joined Yahoo as a content producer. His adventurous episodes on Yahoo site are supported by footage from Casio’s EX-Z750 digital camera. [Read more] [Read more]
ESPs and Personalized Email Campaigns Expand
Email Service Providers are expanding at an annual growth rate of 33%. Personalized email campaigns account for more revenue and email volume. [Read more] [Read more]
Google CAPTCHA to Catch Blog Spammers
Google has implemented new security measures to control splogs, spam blogs. Google asks the blogger to solve a CAPTCHA to prove it is not spam. [Read more] [Read more]
Internet Ad Revenues Increase
The internet ad revenues are growing at three times the rate of other media average. Brazil, Russia, India and China have supplied 27% of world ad growth this year. [Read more] [Read more]
