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This'll teach those Blogger-owning bastards to fuck with my side bar;



Google loses to Yahoo
By Kate Mackenzie
June 10, 2004
GOOGLE'S efforts in the Australian market have taken a body blow as News Interactive yesterday became the third major online publisher to sign a search marketing distribution agreement with Yahoo's subsidiary Overture.

The News Corporation Ltd's online arm joined Fairfax's F2 and CNN in ditching Google in favour of Overture, which has also signed No1 website publisher Ninemsn in the four months since it opened a local office. Both News Interactive - a sister company to The Australian - and F2 had been Google customers for just over a year.



Does any of this ring a bell with anyone?



But there was general dissatisfaction with Google's service.

"The reality is they haven't committed that much resources and time to Australia because they've worried more about other areas," he said. "We've had six different account managers within Google in a very short space of time, and getting them to concentrate has been pretty tough.


The trouble being that when you're stuck on a dial-up connection that rarely makes it to 20k Yahoo takes so long to actually do anything that you may as well not bother.