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25th Jun 2007

Can eBay "Auction Off" Google?

eBay wants to auction anything and everything, and now it's using its auction technology to create an efficient ad sales system to compete with Google , which dominates the online ad sales space. Starting today, eBay is going to begin brokering radio advertisements.
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25th Jun 2007

Google ban gambling ads

Google has stunned the gaming community by prohibiting all forms of gambling advertising on AdWords, including bingo and play-for-fun sites.
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25th Jun 2007

One Engine is Not Enough! Study by InfoSpace Reveals Vastly Different Results from Top Search Engines

infoSpace Inc. a leading developer of proprietary metasearch technologies, today unveiled the results from a study that evaluated search results from the four leading search engines. With search engines producing such differing results, the study illustrates the value of metasearch and Dogpile.com, which returns the top results from each of these leading search engines to provide users with the most relevant and useful information.
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22nd Jun 2007

Ask.com overhauls search service

Chris Sherman once compared Ask.com to Apple. Ask CEO Jim Lanzone remarked to me that he liked the comparison because it spoke to quality and innovativeness. Indeed, among the top-tier search engines Ask has arguably been the most innovative. In one sense it has to be. Without that effort it might lose hold on the roughly 5 percent search market share it currently has.
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22nd Jun 2007

UK leads the way for European online ad spending

Online advertising spending within the 13 countries of the IAB Europe network was Eur8.003 billion ($10.08 billion) in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) Europe's "Pan-European Online Advertising Spend" study, analyzed by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.
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22nd Jun 2007

Online Marketing 2007 Survey Reveals Dramatic Increase in Online Spend

Commitment to online marketing spend has increased dramatically over the past year, according to the results of a survey carried out by the Online Marketing show (OMS), which takes place at the Business Design Centre, London on 26th - 27th June.
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22nd Jun 2007

eBay pulls ads from Google ad network

eBay has pulled all of its paid search ads from Google's AdWords network in the U.S., an eyebrow-raising move likely to be interpreted in the industry as a sign of deteriorating relations between the two Internet giants.
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