Google-owned FeedBurner is set to launch AdSense for RSS next week according to a post on the company’s blog. Much like the AdSense for Web sites, AdSense for RSS will show contextual text advertising in publisher’s RSS feeds.
As per IDC report, Internet advertising will grow about 3.5 times as fast as advertising overall over the next five years. IDC also said the Internet in US will go from the No. 5 advertising medium all the way to No. 2 in just five years, making it bigger than newspapers, cable TV and broadcast TV, and second only to direct marketing.
Based on the popular Web 2.0 infrastructure, Paglo’s software-as-a-service (Saas) was first introduced to the public in November, but today marks the first day it is available for public use. The service will be available for free until the fall, when Paglo says it will implement a paid model.
Microsoft plans to shut down the Live Search Books and Live Search Academic Web sites and stop scanning library and copyright books. Microsoft entered the book-scanning business in 2005 by contributing material to the Open Content Alliance, an industry group conceived by the Internet Archive and Yahoo. In 2006, it unveiled its competing MSN book search site.
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Google’s Larry Page, a member of the coalition technology group, lobbied in Congress on Thursday to promote the company’s proposal for next-gen unused airwaves, dubbed “white space spectrum” to be used for wireless devices. The group also includes Microsoft Corp, Dell Inc, Intel Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co and the north American unit of Philips Electronics.
Verizon Wireless confirmed its support for mobile Linux. It becomes the first U.S. operator to join the LiMo Foundation, a group developing mobile Linux technology. Key members include Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic, Samsung, and LG.
The new search engine company, Powerset, has released a public beta version of its search engine. Right now, Powerset can only search Wikipedia. In the new version, people can search using simple phrases, short questions and keywords. The product launch comes just a day after reports that the company is being shopped to potential buyers by investment bank Allen & Co.
Leading up to Google’s first-quarter earnings report on Apr. 17, investors were skeptical about the future of the company. There was a concern that a weak economy would finally hurt the search giant’s advertising business because the stock was down by 35% compared to the start of the year. But Google (GOOG) defied skeptics with a surprisingly strong showing that sent the stock soaring 20% the next day.
You can now run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure. The Google App Engine enables developers to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power our own applications. Here is FAQ on the Google App Engine. The product is one of several offering cheap infrastructure to Web businesses, so that they can rent storage and processing power and avoid expensive hardware purchases.
