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."

Comments

Well

[Hopieopdepaus]

People who didn't read this yesterday (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/17/18132 01) happily thank you for the reminder.

WHAT DO WE DO

[i8puppies]

Crap crap, Google isnt on the front page anymore!
QUICKLY! REPOST BEFORE ANYONE NOTICES!

Google will soon get bloated

[Viol8]

A lot of googles success to date has been because it was a small(ish) lithe
fleet footed company that managed to wrongfoot the large sluggish opposition
corporations such as MS that find it almost impossible to make snap decisions.
However recently google seems to be putting lots of fingers in lots of pies
and getting rather fat. I'm wondering how long before this golden child of
the dot come revolution turns into yet the type of fat bloated corporation
that its founders we so successful in outdoing....

Find the 10 similarities

[Stan Vassilev]

Who knew "Opposites Attract" was written about Google & Microsoft? There we go, read and compare:

Baby seems we never ever agree
You like the movies
And I like T.V.
I take things serious
And you take 'em light
I go to bed early
And I party all night
Our friends are sayin'
We ain't gonna last
Cuz I move slowly
And baby I'm fast
I like it quiet
And I love to shout
But when we get together
It just all work out

I take-2 steps forward
I take-2 steps back
We come together
Cuz opposites attract
And you know-it ain't fiction
Just a natural fact
We come together
Cuz opposites attract

Don't bother ScuttleMonkey

[Anonymous Coward]

Just take one of those Trauma Pills and it will all be beter tomorrow.

Re:Adsense Everywhere now?

[tpgp]

C'mon!

Bad enough to have a dupe article - we don't need dupe comments too

Look at the link!

[putko]

Look at the link on the submitter:

http://www.playfullyclever.com/

And then you'll see articles like this one:

"The Problem With Slashdot
Everyone seems to be bitching about Slashdot these days. Whether it's dupes, digg farming, **Beatles-Beatles spam, or even yours truly, everyone has something to whine about. The problem is that none of these things are really the problem (oops, that's a thinker, don't hurt yourself slashbots)...."

So it seems this guy is working in the spirit of http://anti-slash.org/ -- but even sneakier -- the guy gets a dupe posted, where it links to his "how to fix Slashdot" webpage.

What a PLAYFULLY CLEVER bastard!

Re:Look at the link!

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

Mod parent redundant. Taco has already addressed this:

Mod Grandparent Up. Taco posted a story on story selection. No one has actually gotten around to doing anything about it yet. This is the second virtual dupe by ScuttleMonkey in under 48 hours.

Please stay on-topic. :)
With dupes this blantant, the dupe is the topic. Anyone who mods "dupe" posts as offtopic, clearly doesn't understand how this site functions.

Re:What's all the hubbubb?

[bhiestand]

What's the big deal with duplicates anyhow? If someone didn't see it yesterday, they'll see it now, and if someone _did_ see it yesterday; they don't have to RTFA, ya know?

Good point. Why does the Los Angeles Times put all that effort into writing a NEW newspaper every day? They should just change the date. If somebody has already read the articles, they can just skip them. If they missed them, then they can go ahead and read it! It's like a second chance. Forever!