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Google TV Ads boom with the Bloomberg

Google has signed a pact with  Bloomberg Television for availing national cable ad time in the US.  Bloomberg Television will make the time slot available with the help of  Google TV Ads platform. This platform was launched by Google in this May as an auction-based,  self serviced system. After the tie up with NBC Universal last month, the pact  with  Bloomberg Television is the second striking step of Google in this regard.

Bloomberg Television addresses the wealthiest and powerful cross section of the television viewers. And , the practice of viewing ads of this cross section is really difficult to be measured.  In this direction, Google is going to help Bloomberg Television.  Google  with the help of  set-top boxes can  view the data. The data viewing is possible due to the agreement between  DISH Network satellite TV system and Google. This agreement  uses Google TV Ads to sell inventory.

Google is optimistic regarding the output of its pact with Bloomberg Television. The advertisers of Google are also positive regarding the development and hope that, the technology will help them learn more about the Bloomberg Television audience. Consumer’s response on any specific ad and required real-time adjustments on the part of the advertisers for maximizing returns can be analyzed more precisely with the help of this technology.

New Feature of Google Search (Result Details)

Seeing this on the upper left of web search pages above the results of Google
Web: result details: S M L

For one top result:

S displays only URL and Title
M displays a 150+ character description
L displays a 600+ character description

SMALL

MEDIUM

LARGE

Search Engine Giant Google to Buy Video Game Developer Valve

Internet search engine giant Google is all set to acquire the US independent video game developer, Valve according to a news story published by the Inquirer. Valve, the creator of popular games like the ‘Half-life’ and ‘Counter Strike’ has the best content distribution platform, ‘Steam.’ The platform is easy to use and can deliver DVD-sized files to millions of enthusiast users over the internet

ANA Opposes Google-Yahoo Ad Tie Up Deal

The Association of National Advertisers has sent a letter to Department of Justice to oppose the recent  Google-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search advertising pact. In the letter Bob Liodice President & CEO, ANA, mentioned that the oragnization’s opposition to the deal. It says that ANA came to the conclusions that after “a comprehensive, independent analysis, which included input from the Board’s members and face-to-face discussions with Google ( NSDQ: GOOG) and Yahoo”.

It say that Google & Yahoo partnership will control 90 % of search advertising inventory and states ANA’s concern that partnership will likely diminish competition and will limit the currently available choice and will like the online marketing pricing. There may be more to the letter (which it did not disclose fully) and its investigation, but the two aren’t combining all their inventory; Google will only have access to limited inventory from Yahoo against which to serve up its contextual ads.

Pay Per Click Summit in Sept 08

The Pay Per Summit will be held on 25 September in Los Angeles (Omni Hotels 8:00 A M to 5:00 PM). The entry price for early bird is $200 and will expire on sep 18, 2008. The speaker will deliver the training session on SEM campaigns, Google Adwords, MSN adCenter, Yahoo Search Marketing and on other marketing tactics. This session will also include topic like better quality score tactics, customer conversion, effective keyword development, landing page design & improvements, bid management & other SEM hot topics.

Google Chrome

“Google” The leading search engine on the internet has launched beta version of its web broswer for window, ‘Google Chrome’ in more than 100 countries. Launching Google Chrome is new innovation on the web for web surfers. Like the other Google application Chrome is clean & fast for the internet browsing.

Google Chrome is developed to compete with firefox and internet explorer and will force them to invent something few to allure future users.

Google Launches their Online Publishing Service

July 24, 2008:

Google Inc. announces the surfacing of an online-publishing service potentially threatening to Wikipedia