Google launches TV search service
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Net search giant Google has launched a search service that lets people look for TV programmes.
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Google Inc., the world&#39;s top  provider of Web search and online advertising, said on Monday  it is offering small business Web sites a service that lets  visitors search for information within their sites.
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(InfoWorld) - Broadcaster and Internet service provider British Sky Broadcasting GroupÂ (BSkyB) has asked GoogleÂ to host e-mail and other services for its broadband customers in the U.K. Their collaboration could also lead to the creation of targeted TV ads. Google will run mail services for users with addresses @sky.com, host a portal for user-generated video content, and deliver targeted search advertising on BSkyB's Web sites, the companies said Wednesday. In time, that targeted advertising could appear on TV, in the same way that Google is developing advertising sales platforms for broadcast radio and even print media. The digital video recorders that BSkyB offers subscribers to its Sky satellite TV channels are already able to deliver targeted advertising, although the company does not yet use that capability, according to BSkyB spokesman Robert Fraser. "Sky is already very tuned-in to the potential of delivering more-targeted ads to TV users," he said. "We will work together with Google to deliver targeted ads." The companies have set no timetable to introduce such a service, though: "It's an area for future development," he said. While BSkyB's business revolves mainly around broadcasting professionally produced content, the deal with Google will take it into new territory: The companies also plan to build a video portal featuring content generated by Sky subscribers. It will run on systems developed by Google for its Google Video portal, but will be branded as a Sky service, the companies said. The video portal will allow Sky customers to see only content posted by other Sky customers, said Google spokesman DJ Collins. However, content posted by Sky users will also be visible to other users of theÂ YouTube service that Google acquiredÂ in November, he said. Analysts at OvumÂ said that user-generated content is an essential element of any portal. But they wondered why BSkyB isn't making use of MySpace.com, which also belongs to News Corp., the parent company of BSkyB. BSkyB began life as a satellite TV broadcaster. Following itsÂ acquisition of U.K. ISP Easynet GroupÂ in October 2005, BSkyB launched its own broadband Internet access service in July. That service is available only to subscribers to the Sky satellite TV services. The company has 8.3 million subscribers, and aims to have 10 million by the end of the decade, with 3 million of them subscribing to the broadband service, Fraser said.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Google Inc  and television ratings company Nielsen will announce a multi-year deal on Wednesday to provide demographic data to Google's system for selling television advertising.
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Google Inc., the world&#39;s most-used Internet search engine, yesterday introduced software that lets users search for files from their own computers as well as the Web, entering a new area of competition with Microsoft Corp.
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Google launches a search engine service for as little as $100 a year, aimed at attracting small businesses.
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The search leader is partnering with the TV audience measurement firm for its Google TV Ads.
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The internet search engine Google has released its first set of results since the company floated on the stock market two months ago.
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InfoWorld - Google introduced a new service for small businesses that allows visitors to search within their Web sites on a customized search page.
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Google Inc  said on  Tuesday it is testing a new interactive service that lets  advertisers measure users' responses in advanced ways using  video or images on Google's vast base of affiliated Web sites.
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Google has partnered with Nielsen to broaden the TV viewership information it provides to participants in its Google TV Ads program.
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Google Inc. plans to announce on Thursday that it is adding a new search service aimed at scientists and academic researchers. Google Scholar, which was scheduled to
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Web giant Google Inc is developing  televisions that display Internet content such as photos and  videos together with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd's  Panasonic unit.
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Yahoo Inc. has followed Google into the mobile-search arena, launching a service that allows wireless users to query its search engine over their handsets.
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Google Inc. on Thursday became the first tech heavyweight to tackle the daunting task of uncluttering computers, introducing a program that
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I Want My blinkx TV! Television Search Engine  blinkx today announced the availability of blinkx TV, the first search engine that allows you to search TV across news, sports and entertainment programming. blinkx is the first search engine to make such TV programs fully searchable on demand. Because blinkx captures and ...
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Web giant Google Inc  is  developing televisions that display Internet content such as  photos and videos together with Matsushita Electric Industrial  Co Ltd's  Panasonic unit.