SWICKI - The Evolution of Search and the Web?

At Eurekster, we believe the web will evolve in the same way as other media channels. Access to the web has been initially controlled by a series of major entities (portals and search engines) but it is now expanding and changing so users can choose the sites and search engines they will use based on how relevant they are to them. A few examples of today’s generation of generic search engines are extremely successful, but ultimately it is the publishers of web content, communities, and communications services who know most about what their users are interested in, along with their users. We’ve built Eurekster to empower the publishers of the web to offer more relevant search to their audiences and to earn their share of the $5 billion paid search and advertising

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Meet The Google Guys

TIME’s Adi Ignatius got the Google triumvirate of Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page to sit for a talk around a table covered with Lego pieces, for which they have a known fondness, during a break at Google’s recent sales conference in San Francisco. Page, who as a student built an ink-jet printer out of Lego bricks, is snapping pieces together to make a kind of endlessly ascending staircase; Brin is working on a robot. Schmidt seems too grownup for this.

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Sun-Times nets Google ad deal

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Google Inc., the new-media giant, now has a decidedly old-media partner: the Chicago Sun-Times.

In a quiet and small-scale experiment, Google is running classified-like ads in the pages of the Sun-Times, which so far is the only newspaper participating in the Web-search behemoth’s test.

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