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American marketers not ready to jump on video and mobile search
Despite the buzz around video and mobile search, US search engine marketers are not ready to put their money where their mouths are for the still-untested platforms.

US advertising prepares to launch ad networks
US advertising is preparing for a major transformation of its business practices with the launch of new technology allowing electronic ad trading across media.

Google signs major Chinese partnership
China's second largest fixed-line telephone operator, China Networks Communications Corporation (CNC), has struck a deal with Google to provide search services.

BBC in deal with Google-YouTube
The BBC has teamed up with YouTube in a deal which will see short clips of BBC content played on YouTube, the web's most popular video sharing website owned by Google.

Google to overtake ITV as biggest UK ad earner
Google is on course to eclipse ITV as the UK's biggest advertising earner in less than two years, the company's figures have shown.

BBC and IBM agree video search deal
The BBC and IBM have agreed a deal that will supply the broadcaster with video search technology for its children's TV sites.

Friend$ with benefits: Google ads to appear on social networking profiles
Dada.net, an Italian-based social networking and mobile community service provider, has partnered with Google Ads to allow users to place adverts on their pages and earn money by inviting their friends to do the same.

Yahoo!'s Flickr celebrates third birthday
Flickr, the popular photo sharing site widely considered a pioneer of Web 2.0, has just celebrated its third birthday.

Pandia launches search engines' search engine
Pandia Search Engine Detective has launched a search engine dedicated to finding all things related to search engines, the company has announced.

Google rules out merger plans
Google chief Eric Schmidt has squashed speculation that the search engine will use its rapidly growing cash mountain to seek any large merger opportunities in the short-term.