22Jan

Scott Phillips

Google and Newspapers Call It Quits

Indicating a clear sign of the times for the newspaper industry, Google announced yesterday it is pulling out of its newspaper ads venture.

With an advertising sales program of about 800 US newspapers, Google said yesterday the program would end February 28th. This comes after a two year endeavor into the newspaper advertising market in hopes of  expanding Google’s dominance beyond the internet.

This move comes off the heels of Google laying off 100 workers last week as well as scrapping other products like Dodgeball and Jaiku .

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