21 Dec 2005
| by by Staff
NEW YORK - Google has confirmed it is to buy a 5% stake in AOL for $1bn (£569m), in a move...! before reaching the agreement with Google.
The deal will see AOL and Google collaborate on an online video offering, and make the Google Talk instant messaging software compatible with AOL's instant ...
white-label version of Google's ad technology.
There are also plans to expand display advertising ...
20 Dec 2005
| by by Daniel Farey-Jones
LONDON – Google may give AOL preferential treatment in search results, according to reports ahead...Google last week got the upper hand on MSN, its rival suitor for AOL, and the news leaked out ...
content on Google and, in what would be a first for Google, include its logo in search results ...
display ads on Google sites, promote its content in Google search results, and jointly develop video ...
16 Dec 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
LONDON – Google has responded to the growing music downloads market with the launch of a music...The search engine was unveiled by Marissa Mayer, Google's director of web products. The service will launch on Thursday, December 22, and will be listed alongside Google's other services such as News ...
to the company's fortunes, which made $4.2bn (£2.4bn) in revenues in the first nine months of 2005.
Google ...
13 Dec 2005
| by by Julia Pearlman
Google to track down the product or gift they want. Smart online stores should secure high rankings ...
09 Dec 2005
newspaper market came two long years after that of The Independent. Google, meanwhile, could do no wrong ...
that dominates its market to such
a degree. Anyone who wants to buy search has to use Google (and many
buyers rely on Google alone). This is very similar to the position that
was enjoyed by network broadcasters ...
08 Dec 2005
Google is to treble the size of its European PR presence in 2006 to facilitate growth....by Google's head office in California. 'The surfing habits and foibles of users vary greatly across Europe,' said Whetstone. 'Google is expanding into different arenas and if it is to remain as successful ...
07 Dec 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
of signing a deal with Microsoft to develop an online ad service to challenge Google.
If the deal went ahead, AOL would stop using Google as its primary internet search provider in favour of Microsoft's MSN.
AOL and Google currently work together, with Google providing AOL's search technology and AOL taking a ...
06 Dec 2005
| by by Sam Matthews
The deal gives the combined sites of ITV.com and FriendReunited.com the eighth largest online presence in the UK in terms of unique users, ranking behind the likes of Google, Yahoo!, eBay and the BBC.
Friends Reunited will operate as a standalone entity, although ITV will integrate its management team, led ...
06 Dec 2005
| by Kevin May
Google is carrying out a pilot in the US of a new search service pay-per-call which sees online..." exercise
for the model for consumers, but it believed the Google system would
provide too many barriers ...
will be interesting to see how web users respond to the extra steps
Google is adding to the communication process ...
-to-be-called-back." A spokeswoman for Google said: "Google is always considering new ways to
provide value to its ...
01 Dec 2005
| by by Ian Darby
The row over Google's plan to scrap agency commission payments has intensified, with the IPA set...The IPA's Digital Marketing Group will meet on Monday to discuss a course of action against Google ...
performance-related payments .
Possible routes forward for the IPA include legal action against Google or an attempt to get the Office of Fair Trading involved on the grounds that Google is abusing its dominant ...
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