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Tim Thorpe (Blog) - August 9, 2006 6:16 PM
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Google outbid Yahoo! and MSN for search and advertising rights for MySpace.com

Google has signed a 3 1/2 year, $900 million deal with News Corp. to provide advertising and search to MySpace.com and other News Corp. sites. Starting in October, users will use Google to search for friends and groups on MySpace, as well as generic web searches through the MySpace site. Google will also provide AdSense-based advertising on the popular social networking site.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt has indicated that Google will work to reduce the number of ads displayed on MySpace saying “We are not going to cover MySpace with ads,” and that the company would rather show fewer, more relevant advertising. Currently Yahoo! provides search for MySpace.

Yahoo and MSN were also bidding for search rights on the News Corp. sites. Microsoft has not commented on the deal while Yahoo! issued a statement saying “We only participate in partnerships that also meet Yahoo’s standards. We did not see this opportunity as financially prudent or in the best interest of our advertisers.”

DailyTech reported last month that Google has opened up a new research center in Michigan thanks to heavy tax incentives granted by the local government. The company's online payment system, Google Checkout, is also gaining widespread support online from a number of retailers including Buy.com, Starbucks, Sports Authority and eCost. Not surprisingly, eBay has shunned the service.

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lol, internet
By Ralph The Magician on 8/9/2006 8:48:02 PM , Rating: 2
Maybe now the search function on MySpace will actually do something.

While they are at it, they might as well just entirely recode MySpace. It might make it easier.




RE: lol, internet
By MADAOO7 on 8/9/2006 11:10:18 PM , Rating: 2
Amen to that. I don't understand how mySpace is successful. It may be one of the worst designed websites I've ever visted. The search function is an example of how not to design a seach function. I'd try to search for a friend named "Ashley" within 25 miles, and I'd get Abubu from Napal. Facebook on the otherhand, is a very well thought out website.


RE: lol, internet
By headbox on 8/10/2006 12:33:19 AM , Rating: 2
MySpace is successful because of the abundance of hot girls with low IQs that post waaaay too much personal information about themselves.


RE: lol, internet
By IceTron on 8/10/2006 5:09:15 AM , Rating: 1
And.....thats a bad thing?


RE: lol, internet
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 8/10/2006 10:25:22 AM , Rating: 2
Yes its a bad thing, let them air their dirty laundry where we don't need to see it, because we simply don't care.


RE: lol, internet
By rushfan2006 on 8/11/2006 8:58:34 AM , Rating: 2
quote:
MySpace is successful because of the abundance of hot girls with low IQs that post waaaay too much personal information about themselves.


And you just hit the nail on the head why I think MySpace.com and sites like it , what is the catch phrase for it now "social networking sites", are 1) Enormous wastes of time, 2) inherently dangerous and 3) shows how naive many *MANY* people really are.

No wonder you hear so much about Myspace and all in the news anymore...its so easy for a predator type of person to get information on folks with these sites its incredible. And the thing is the younger folks -- the teens and such..think its "cool" and that everyone is just over-reacting....amazing...simply amazing...and the scary thing --- these kind of folks are our future senators, police, etc. etc.....lol.


RE: lol, internet
By rushfan2006 on 8/11/2006 9:00:55 AM , Rating: 2
Hmmm..but then after I reflect for a moment on all that.....if you are really that stupid to give over-whelming personal information so easily to just anyone on the 'net....part of me feels like you deserve what you get too. ;)



RE: lol, internet
By jsowder18 on 8/10/2006 9:22:07 AM , Rating: 2
95% of the people on that site don't really care how it's designed. I may not like the site itself that much, but you aren't going to find 60 million or whatever it is users (might be more) on any other social networking site.

I think people sometimes forget there is some good in MySpace. You can find old high school buddies from years ago and they don't charge for it like some websites. Plus it's a much easier and more exciting way to stay in touch with your current friends. Quit hatin on it...


RE: lol, internet
By R Nilla on 8/10/2006 9:31:33 AM , Rating: 2
if you need myspace to stay in touch with your "current" friends, I think you need to reevaluate your friendships...


RE: lol, internet
By Master Kenobi (blog) on 8/10/2006 10:24:54 AM , Rating: 2
Indeed, Myspace is how to not code websites. Bloatware used to be the term some used for Microsoft products, but Microsoft doesnt hold a candlestick to the bloatware that is Myspace.

On a side note, of the 60 million or so users on myspace, the vast majority are clueless, nieve, or have problems nobody wants to hear so they post them on myspace in hopes someone might come along and offer to help them. Our company actively checks myspace for the people we employ, if we see theyre spending too much time on it, or posting things we dont want to know/see they are gone, we also check this during interviews for prospective future employees.

Heres a tip for the professionals, or those that want to be professionals, Stay Away From Myspace, and Sites Like It.
'nuff said.


RE: lol, internet
By rrsurfer1 on 8/10/2006 12:04:13 PM , Rating: 3
I know a lot of companies do that now.

I have to say though, someone that is actively using myspace isn't necissarily going to be a bad employee. Having a social life outside of work != a bad employee. People with active social lives are happier, more productive workers. If you want drones that have no lives then go ahead and hire them, they are fairly adundant. A few years from now your company will be crap, you'll come up with nothing innovative and your people won't be able to communicate well. Creative, active people make the best employees, they are happier and more productive. They can work better in teams, which is needed for basically anything nowadays.

In any case, if a company is anal enough to have to check up on their employee's personal lives frequently, I don't want to work for them. Plenty of jobs out there with employeers that have at least some sense of humanity. If I produce good work while I'm on the job, that should be what matters.


RE: lol, internet
By rushfan2006 on 8/11/2006 9:06:27 AM , Rating: 2
I'm with you on that R. Nilla...I'm sorry to sound harsh (not really but its Friday and I'm in a good mood since the weekend is suppose to be awesome) to the poster above...but if you need a website to keep in touch with your friends...dude...are they really *that* strong of friendships to begin with. That is a big thing that I think folks confuse today...they call folks they see once in a while "their friend" even though 95% of those kinds of "friends" wouldn't want anything to do with you if it wasn't something fun or to their benefit....

Anyway...Myspace isn't needed...its a hobby site, and if you enjoy using it -- more power to you..I like playing computer games others don't for example....but all I'm saying is I'd be careful on what information you disclose and to who if you are going to use that site.

I don't let my nephews or neices access it from my house.



Woohoo
By Cunthor01 on 8/9/2006 8:19:32 PM , Rating: 2
Great. How can I google 'suicide' now, and not come up with a photo of some fringed, tight-pant, puberty infested turd with a two-week-old girfriend problem??




RE: Woohoo
By Josh7289 on 8/9/2006 8:43:28 PM , Rating: 2
Huh? How does this have anything to do with Google searches on MySpace?

This will not affect how normal Google web searches perform.

As for the deal itself, I couldn't care less. I hate MySpace, but if Google thinks they can make a profit off of this, then I say just let 'em.


RE: Woohoo
By theprodigalrebel on 8/10/2006 1:33:17 PM , Rating: 2
When I search for my name on Google, the #1 result is my Blog on Blogger.com. It shows up in the 10s-20s on Yahoo and other search engines. Google is partial to Blogger.com users. I have reason to believe Google-affiliated/owned websites get bumped up higher in the search results.

What the suicide/myspace dude was saying is entirely possible.


RE: Woohoo
By Ralph The Magician on 8/9/2006 8:46:21 PM , Rating: 2
Hehe. Actually, I think that Google's evergrowing index may, at least possibly, be lead to its downfall at some point in the future. More and more I find that if I can't find what I'm looking for on the first Google page I have to search through dozens of pages of crap until I find what I'm looking for.


Thats all I want
By creathir on 8/9/06, Rating: 0
RE: Thats all I want
By NerV04 on 8/9/2006 6:49:19 PM , Rating: 2
reading too much of that crap on myspace makes me wanna throw up....thats probably why i avoid it like the plague....also all those really bad emo songs they put in their profiles too


RE: Thats all I want
By NerV04 on 8/9/2006 6:56:30 PM , Rating: 2
also i dont really get how much google will profit from this...they start adding more ads and then people start getting pissed...then start leaving to go to another myspace like website...then they lose out on their investement


RE: Thats all I want
By Lonearchon on 8/9/2006 7:17:32 PM , Rating: 3
I think they will replace the current ads with google ads. it would make the site easier on eye without all the flash ads everywhere. That way more people would go to myspace.com due less flash ads maybe....


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By albundee on 8/9/2006 6:23:10 PM , Rating: 4
.... i dunno if this is a good thing or a bad thing. i love google, but hate myspace with a passion.




By antigrimace on 8/9/2006 7:17:19 PM , Rating: 2
good thing
By PockoChocko on 8/9/2006 7:31:56 PM , Rating: 2
This is probably a good thing for all those addicted Myspace users. Using Google for search might free up some of Myspace's bandwidth, thus making Myspace faster. Myspace has been knows to be horribly slow during peak hours.




Speed
By therealnickdanger on 8/10/2006 11:15:23 AM , Rating: 2
I consider this a very welcome change. It's not that I don't like the sexy female images in those massive Flash ads, but if switching to more text-based Google ads leads to MySpace behaving faster, I'm all for it. MySpace needs drastic streamlining. LOL, I still remember when it was just a tiny thing. *sniff* They grow up so fast!




so it's come to this
By theslug on 8/11/2006 11:50:51 AM , Rating: 2
myspace is the new geocities




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