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Googleholic for August 11th 2006

googleholicIn this issue we cover:
  • Google Maps games
  • Google book scanning
  • A conversation with Eric Schmidt
  • Safe searching with Google
  • Server farm in India
  • Canadian Google research center
  • Google and Fox Interactive deal
  • Google jet case settlement
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Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Google, Social Software

Google, MySpace and $900 million

google and myspace $900 million dealMySpace has reached a deal with Google to pay out approximately $900 million in shared revenue for Google to become their exclusive search provider, in a move said by some to block Yahoo! and MSN from getting a piece of the action.

Through the deal, Google search boxes will be added to MySpace, as well as provide keyword targeted ads through AdSense. As far as advertising goes, Google will also get first call on selling any unsold ad space that Fox Interactive has not sold directly.

Terms of the deal include Fox meeting certain milestones in traffic in order for Google to pay out. Google has no doubt that Fox will meet all criteria for payouts. The ads and search boxes are expected to be up and running by the end of the year, and continue until mid 2010.

Filed under: Web services

Fox Interactive buying up Web 2.0 companies

Fox InteractiveWhat's going down at Under the Radar, the "early stage technology innovation" conference happening right now? News Corp. company Fox Interactive is shopping, apparently. According to ZDNet's Dan Farber, Fox's Ron Levinson revealed yesterday that he had just bought one of the companies at the event. Which company? Well, the ink isn't yet dry on the deal and Levinson isn't saying. Farber speculates that photo search company Riya (whose service isn't even in beta yet) is a good candidate. News Corp., you'll remember, bought MySpace last July for $580 million, and Levinson says he has a $2 billion "war chest" for buying companies and he would bet that he'd end up buying five more of the 32 companies present at the event. Head over to Farber's post for a video clip of the Levinson interview.

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