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October 19, 2006

Google Profit Nearly Doubles
Google's third-quarter profit nearly doubled from a year ago as sales of keyword-related advertising continued to grow for the world's top Web search engine.

Social

Google Buys YouTube For $1.65 Billion
The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.

Blogging

Google Blog Search Pinging Service
Blogging providers who syndicate RSS/Atom/XML and want to be included in our Blog Search index can now ping us directly. We'll continue to monitor other pinging services and will contribute change notifications to the community.

Pay Per Call

Google & Ebay Sign Click To Call Deal
The agreement consists of two primary components involving text-based advertising and "click-to-call" advertising functionality.

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