Google starts to advertise after Microsoft/Yahoo deal

We spend alot of our time looking for articles and news from websites all around the world as Australian news sites are pretty crap. We were up at 2.30 am (Aust time) reading the Bing/Yahoo joint venture on www.telegraph.co.uk which we find useful, when we noticed an advert for Google appear on the right hand side.

The Telegraph allow Australian adverts to be shown to surfers from Australia, which really pisses us off. ( It's like going to visit America, watching TV and seeing Australian adverts, when you want the whole experience.) anyway, they put up an ad that took us to a new feature. We were taken to here: http://www.google.com.au/landing/searchtips/
via this page.

What we also found interesting was that the advert only appeared as we were reading this article

Microsoft and Yahoo! strike search deal to challenge Google's dominance

Wheels falling off print media model. Poor old Rupert.

News Ltd put boot into Yellow Pages. Google trump both.


We have been watching with interest the stoush between Google and Rupert, owner of News Ltd.

So, in typical Google style, they respond with a free Real Estate search feature to Google Maps.

This is aimed fair and square at www.realestate.com.au which is 60% owned by News Ltd. We noticed a large parcel of shares go through the market in the last week. It turns out the seller was the Ray White group who got in at the bottom and it would appear out at the top. And they should know!

Poor old Rupert! only last week, News Ltd had a pop at Yellow Pages (Australia) through a purpose built web site www.yellowturningblue.com.au and the gloves came off between the two of them. According to replies to various blogs, employees of Yellow Pages have hit back at what News Ltd have produced as research. The research just pointed out the bleeding obvious. Young people just do not use Yellow Pages anymore.

Now about MySpace..............