Google gives up selling newspaper ads

Nibble Too much like hard work

By Nick Farrell

Wed Jan 21 2009, 09:06

GOOGLE'S two-year attempt to flog advertising in newspapers has ended with the outfit giving up.

Under the pretext of 'cost cutting', the search outfit has called it a day on helping newspapers recover from losing all their trade to the online magazines.

A SpokesGoogle said that its online expertise was about as useful as a chocolate teapot when it came to selling traditional adverts. It is not clear where this will leave the 800 US newspapers who signed up for the programme. µ

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Maybe they can put an advert in the paper

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