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SES New York: Will Google Sell Itself Out?

John Battelle, who literally wrote the book on Search, believes Google's apparent media-company aspirations will one day come in conflict with its purist algorithmic history.Mike McDonald and the WebProNews Video crew are in New York for the Search Engine Strategies Conference. Stay tuned all week for the latest developments in online marketing. 

The Improved Reality of Parked Domain Traffic

For years many of us in the advertiser camp have yelled about the fact that vendors like Google AdWords lump domain traffic in with "search" traffic without giving you much control over the situation. A lot of this was justifiable yelling - but as with much about the content networks (and stuff that should be in the content network but was in the past classified as search), today's reality seems to have improved.

Google Mentioned As Dow Jones Suitor

News Corp's hostile $5 billion offer for publisher Dow Jones may spur a bidding war, and Google's name has been invoked alongside other potential bidders.

Battelle's FM Tunes Into VC Funding

Author of "The Search" and BoingBoing.net "band manager" John Battelle's Federated Media scooped up its first round of venture capital funding.