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CNNMoney: Google expands newspaper ad program

Google Inc. said it is expanding its Print Ads program to allow online advertisers nationwide to place print advertisements in 225 newspapers, serving half of U.S. newspaper readers.

Business 2.0: Google Is the media

Some say it began with the launch of Google News, the company's first media aggregation site, in 2002. Others point to Google Book Search, completed in 2007 despite cries of foul play from the publishing industry.1 But those were just trial runs. Google took its first real step toward media dominance in 2008, when it bought an obscure cable network for $3 billion and transformed it into Google TV.2 The library of video content the company had been archiving for years was now searchable via remote control. Viewers could choose any show they wanted from the history of TV; all they had to do in return was sit through just one commercial before each show, and then vote with their remotes on how relevant they found the ad.

Fortune: It's Google vs. the World, Part XXXVI

Author and blogger John Battelle knows about as much as any outsider about what happens at Google and its search site. So when a reader of his blog pointed out to Battelle something he hadn't notic...

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