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So Google is buying YouTube for 1.65 billion in stock. Is paying that much for a company that hasn’t made a dime another example of the Web 2.0 bubble buzz? Does this mean Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin and Larry Page are all ”moronic” as Mark Cuban suggests?

Or is Mark Cuban nuts for not seeing the potential and that YouTube will be smooth enough of a salesman to settle the nerves of media giants, encouraging them to make deals instead of lawsuits? Partnerships with CBS, Sony BMG, and Universal music groups may just be the beginning of a lucrative long term opportunity.

Is Om Malik going to lose 40 pounds? Jenny Craig awaits.

Is Yahoo going to be left in the dust of the video sharing/social networking space?

Whether it is a good deal or not, we’ll find out in a year or two but one thing is for sure, Sequoia Capital are the ones who made out like bandits on this one. Half a billion for an 11.5 million investment. Booyah!

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One Google tool comes out of beta (Google Desktop) while another goes into beta. Google Suggest.

When a user types in a term Google comes up with a list of 10 possible terms and the number of total results pool per term in real time. It seems to grab your first word to start.

Refining the options by factoring the other words as you type may be more useful. For instance, typing in cheesecake will give cheesecake recipes but not strawberry cheesecake recipes. Maybe I’m not using a good example but you know what I mean.

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Posted in • Search Engines News • Google Google, trading on their reputation in web search released their desktop search beta last year. Now the official version one Google Desktop release is out and available for download. That swishy logo seems rather fancy for Google doesn't it? Maybe all that IPO money is making them go all crazy and wild! Submitted by RL
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Isn’t three years a long time for a product to be in beta? Perhaps the reason is they haven’t figured a way to monetize it yet. No matter, Google News has introduced the ability to customize the news page to fit your preference. Choose sections based on your country that you wish displayed.

You can rearrange the sections and delete them. Sadly there are only 7 main sections. It would be useful if Google News allowed subsections and let you fine tune them.

You can even customize a section which only displays stories that meet your keywords.

This is all nice and good but Excite and other portals have been doing this since the dot boom. Google does add it’s own spin by allowing country and keyword based stories from a much wider breath of sources but I’m sticking with Excite for now because of all the extras. Stock listings, directory links, personal reminders and phone numbers, customized weather, movies, portfolio, word of the day etc. but most useful for me is the bookmarks on the customizable main page.

Google sticks with the KISS principle for news only which some will find useful but others may want a news page with extras.

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Posted in • Search Engines News • Google Here's the summary of the article

Here’s the body of the article and a bunch of gibberish.  Note- google ads will be set to ‘Left Justified’

Fandom: Smallville
Song: Perfect World
Artist: Liz Phair
Available in wmv format

Oh boy, it’s a pretty life you have
And I would need a map
Just so I could navigate the back yard

Right Click to save as:

end of the seo-body stuff.

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