Google Jumps into Radio Advertising

Luke PiWalker writes "Just days after Microsoft announced its online advertising entry, Google has announced their entry into the radio industry. Google announced today that it has signed a deal to purchase dMarc Broadcasting Inc. for a cool $102 million. The deal will allow Google to enhance its presence in the advertising industry over to the radio industry. What's even more interesting is that Google says it plans to integrate its highly successful AdSense program with those from dMarc. The Google and dMarc deal is expected to close at the end of the first quarter, 2006."

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Re:Look at the link!

[Black.Shuck]

Yes, this sites' obvious function is to create as much drama as possible about "dupes" and submitter-links in order to drown out the genuinely useful, insightful posts from people who - horror of horrors - might not have actually heard about the story yet, regardless of how many times it has been "duped."

Helping with /.'s signal-to-noise ratio is fine by me. I don't mind links to the orignally submitted story because I can swot-up on the old discussion. I would prefer it if there was a "dupe" button that allowed users to post links to the original stories. At least then we can forbid "dupe" posts from entering the main discussion.

I don't think I'm alone in saying: "I don't give a flying crap about your Dupes/Links/Beatles/Scuttle drama." When the discussion that gets modded to the top has absolutely nothing to do with the topic, I find *that* more of a reason to avoid /. than any number of dupes.

I just want to read the good posts by the informed readers who haven't seen the story yet, and just one or two links to the original discussions if it is a dupe.