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Google Paper — Hows that sound
AFTER colonizing cyberspace, Google is going into the newspaper business.
The search engine giant is in talks with several newspaper publishers to sell space in their pages to its online clients.
This expansion will worry bosses of rival media companies who have already called for greater regulation of the fast-growing Google.
Google Print Ads is an extension of Google AdWords, the auction system that lets companies bid for a slot that appears alongside specific online word searches.
Instead of an auction, advertisers pick a newspaper online through Google and enter a bid for available advertising space on a given page and day.
But rather than offering to pay the list price, customers say what they are prepared to pay. Publishers can choose to accept or decline the offer.
Google takes a slice of the advertising revenue from every deal struck. It even offers to design the ad if the advertiser does not have the capability to do it alone. “We believe that online and offline are part of the same melting pot,” Google said. “It is not an ‘either or’.”
Google’s British advertising revenues rose roughly 40 per cent to about pound stg. 1.25 billion ($2.8 billion) this year, overtaking the publisher Trinity Mirror’s income, which includes newspaper sales on top of advertising.
Print Ads, which started in the US mid-year, already supplies 600 titles, ranging from the 3000-sales-a-day Shelby ville Daily Union in Illinois to the Charlotte Observer in North Carolina, which sells 215,000.
A British newspaper boss said: “It is an interesting development with the prospect of bringing new advertisers into our newspapers. If advertisers find it to be an effective channel, then there is the prospect to form direct relationships on a more normal basis.”
Find Shortest Distance Between Any Two Locations On Earth - Using Google Maps or Google Earth
Today, i am going to tell you how to find the shortest distance in kilometers between any two points on the globe. You can also check the shortest line drawn on the Google map between the two points after calculating the distance.
After you read this post, you will be able to find the shortest possible distance between any two places on the earth. But the shortest distance can be traveled by a bird to fly alone and not by an aircraft because of No-fly zones.
Type in Hindi(and other Indian regional languages) using English Keyboard
I was wondering that a lot of people in orkut have their names in Hindi or any other regional language. I thought of doing a Google search and finding out software/site that allows me to type in Hindi.
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NiharsWorld in Hindi
Found out a lot of sites, of which i am listing three sites that i found very interesting:
See Twitter posts and Flickr photos appear on a map in real time
Recently, I found this amazing website : Twittervision .
It was great: let me tell you why.
It gives you a real-time geographic visualization of posts submitted to Twitter. The moment anyone adds post to Twitter, you see the title of the post at the location on the globe along with the name of the person. Just click that and you could read the entire post.
The website has another benefit of advertising itself. Just check it out for 5 minutes and you realize how many people are using it and uploading their work around the world.
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