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Google Signs $900m MySpace Deal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the road-to-world-domination dept.

deadmantyping writes "Google has signed a $900m deal with Fox to provide search capabilities for Fox sites, the most noteworthy of which is MySpace. This deal does not include FoxSports.com, which already has a deal with MSN. Google claims that 'MySpace was an important site to be involved with given its rapid popularity growth.' Google also signed a deal with MTV earlier in the week."

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  1. I just hate it when... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Rupert Murdoch ($500M for myspace.com) gets to tug on his suspenders and say, "Guess I'm not so dumb after all."

  2. Excellent! by ScentCone · · Score: 4, Funny

    Vapid, self-obsessed, score-keeping emo-inanities will now be even easier to find! And that's just the garage bands.

    Wait... did you feel that? A great disturbance in the workforce, like millions of voices crying out... like it just became easier than ever for HR departments around the world to sift through that stack of resumes.

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    1. Re:Excellent! by andrewman327 · · Score: 4, Funny
      it just became easier than ever for HR departments around the world to sift through that stack of resumes.

      Agreed. Just look at this cover my HR department got the other day! (Hey, they're using it for movies, and I think that most of its individual users are dumb enough to do this.)


      drear employr,
      if u want 2 see my resume', chec out my MySpace. ignore the pix of me (hehe, i was so drunk) and the awesome muzic (i wuz 9 when Maroon 5 relesed that song) and clic on the "CLICK ME" link.

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  3. Re:It's not a Myspace.com deal... by cryfreedomlove · · Score: 2, Funny

    Are you implying that News Corp is sensationalistic? Where is the evidence for that?

  4. Taking food from my plate by Weaselmancer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Throwing chairs, etc. You know the drill.

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  5. Question by antifoidulus · · Score: 3, Funny

    How can you index a site where 90% of the words are one or 2 meaningless letters?

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  6. Re:Myspace taking over...... by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don't tell her that.

  7. Re:Google paid Fox? by FlyByPC · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's part of Google's charitable "Don't be evil" motto. They're trying to help all of those poor Fox customers see both sides of the current-events issues. That's why they paid Fox; it's not as if Fox has ever actually been interested in disseminating information. Now they'll be able to find all of the FUD-mongering blogs on BOTH sides!

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  8. better ways by spykemail · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can think of a lot of better ways to blow $900 million dollars, for example, on vodka and hookers.

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  9. So many jokes, so little time by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Myspace + Google + MTV = Pimp my Site

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  10. Re:finally something by MikeWasHere05 · · Score: 5, Funny
    hopefully google with their vast infrastructure will speed up some of the site by using some sort of distributed computing for the search features, which i'm sure requires a lot of cpu speed to search close to 100 million users
    I wish there was a "Im trying to sound smart but am not at all" mod option.
  11. Re:google sucks by tbmcmullen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't think google would be interested in that sort of thing......Cheezy if you ask me

    You didn't think that a huge corporation would be interested in making more money? Maybe you should call up Google and let them know that they should start making decisions based on what you think is "cheezy".

  12. "I'm Feeling Lucky" by Hamster+Lover · · Score: 3, Funny

    Combining MySpace with Google takes "I'm Feeling Lucky" to a whole new level.

    Ang how long before Google lets users "customize" their Google home page into an illiterate pile of horseshit featuring blaring Boy Band background "music", with hot pink on orange text all on top of some weird, annoying Anime/Sailor Moon/rice mobile backround?

  13. Re:Myspace taking over...... by jb.hl.com · · Score: 4, Funny

    Most people who avoid myspace are either old farts who criticize anyone under 30, or slashdotters living in their parents basement.

    Stolen for sig. :)

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  14. Someone has to say it. by clickclickdrone · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Build Search Engine
    2. Pay people to use it
    3. ?????
    4. profit!

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  15. Re:finally something by Andrew+Kismet · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Myspace were to be analysed my a computer, it would probably identify it as either a linkfarm or a tool to confuse web spiders...

  16. Re:Myspace taking over...... by laffer1 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm 27 and just signed up in may. I only use it to find out what happened to high school friends and assholes. Its funny how many people in my class now work at a gas station or an adult bookstore. A few of the cheerleaders made it as waitresses. Its worth the bad web design to laugh at people who said you'd never be anything.

    Best of all its free unlike classmates.com which won't tell you shit unless you pay them.

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