Google Mapping an Offline Course

Major Internet sites are now showing a strong and popular growing interest in the advertising business, and traditional ad.

Google has been leading all through the way, building on its online ad strength by striking deals to sell advertising in the traditional media like newspapers and radio as well. Meanwhile, eBay is growing an ad-buying system for TV spots for a set of large advertisers like Wal-Mart. Yahoo recently announced a deal with 176 newspapers, which did not include offline ad sales, even though newspaper executives did not rule that out.

Yahoo has an eye for talent

Search engine giant Yahoo has bought a website, which would helps individuals and sponsor companies to host online talent shows, adding more content created by users.

Bix, founded in January, holds online contests for featuring karaoke, dance, comedy, beauty, photography and for writing; Yahoo said this at the weekend on its website. People will compete by posting photos, audio and videos and other users will rate.

176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership with Yahoo

A group of seven newspaper chains representing 176 daily papers throughout the country has announced a broad partnership with Yahoo to share content, advertising and technology, another sign that wary newspaper business is rapidly increasing and willing to shake hands with the technology companies they once saw as a threat.

In the first phase of the deal, the newspaper companies would start posting their employment classified ads on Yahoo’s classified jobs site, HotJobs, and start using HotJobs technology to run their own online business ads.

MarketLive Announces Integration with Google Checkout

MarketLive, Inc., the market giant of e-commerce retail technology and the services for Intelligent Selling ® on the Web, announced that the MarketLive platform would be delivering full integration with the recently announced Google Checkout (http://checkout.google.com). This would enable MarketLive customers to quickly and simply take advantage of the new checkout choice without any additional programming effort. For its part, Google planned this new ability to make online shopping faster and more convenient for its users.

GPs Google diagnosis: study

A new Australian study recommended doctors to use Google to diagnose difficult cases even though the results are only 60% accurate.

The published work by British Medical Journal, suggested using Google because it is now a source of three billion journal articles, more effective than any specialist search engine.

Linksys Phone now for Yahoo Messenger

The CIT310 (Linksys) is a cordless phone, which lets you make unlimited free PC-to-PC calls using your Yahoo Messenger with Voice based account. The phone then also supports Yahoo Phone Out (which allows you to make calls to any phone number with rates, which start at $0.2 cents) and Yahoo Phone In (which for $29/year let you assign a phone number to your PC).

Yahoo! India Gets Net Telephony

Yahoo! India has recently got permission from the Indian Government to offer Internet telephony services across the country. The clearance would now allow Yahoo! to offer voice services for users of its instant messenger in India, according to a Yahoo! India spokesperson.

New website by Yahoo!

Yahoo! is now jumping on the food bandwagon by launching the “Yahoo! Food website”.

It is building a Web-based portal for food, as it already has for finance, sports, news, pets and a myriad of other subjects. Yahoo’s food portal carries experts such as Martha Stewart, Wolfgang Puck and Rachael Ray. It would also offer content from Epicurious.com, Food & Wine’s Allrecipes.com, cook’s Illustrated, EatingWell, Taste of Home, Reader’s Digest and few others as well.

Google eyes on US radio

Google is now with the idea of hiring scores of radio sales and also spending heavily in a bid to expand its place in the $US20 billion ($NZ30.2 billion) radio industry. Advertisers will now be able to go online and sign up for targeted radio ads with the help of same AdWords system they use to buy web search ads.

Google Talk speaks to Orkut

For those using Orkut, Google’s social networking website, you may notice new Google Talk integration next time you sign in.

Orkut user can now notice a new Google Talk integration in the website next time you log in. First thing user can notice is the online status of members, one can also send scraps to those contact and that will be displayed in their instant messenger.