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Hollywood - YouTube, the popular video-sharing site is going to let advertisers pay to put ads into search results. Google has been trying to turn YouTube into a more profitable set-up. Google bought YouTube for $1.76 billion two years ago. YouTube does not have much of a revenue model just yet though, but that is soon to change. YouTube stated that the move is going to try and bring in new ways to help promote videos and such on the site. YouTube is going to allow videos ... Read More

Washington - Google has launched a brand new service that will allow us to track the flu. Google announced a free service this week that is going to show the number of flu cases across the U.S. The service is known as Flu Trends and will use computers to figure out how many people are searching for the flu and such. It will then show the results on a map of the U.S. and chart changes in flu activity. This will help link the Internet searches ... Read More

New Acquisition Gives Live Search Capability San Francisco-Google and Yahoo are working on their projects such as indexing and making Flash sites available, but meanwhile Microsoft is pushing ahead with projects of its own. Microsoft announced on Tuesday its purchase of Powerset, a San Francisco based natural language and search company. Read More

Boston - Google has announced that they have expanded Google Trends to allow the tracking of web sites. Google Trends began a few years ago and focused on tracking keywords. It has been expanded though and will now allow you to track the popularity and growth of any web site simply by entering a domain. This can be tested out as of right now by any user, and will also allow you to search for up to 5 sites at a time and ... Read More