<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7839df94-3b52-4387-a3b9-7c6f5f8b0145/7357EDFC-906D-4570-AE90-A37DD2141B5D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.investsmart.com.au/news/news.asp?Action=Display&DocID=AGE090727LS7IP58K0RG" href="http://www.investsmart.com.au/news/news.asp?Action=Display&DocID=AGE090727LS7IP58K0RG" style="font-size: 11px;">www.investsmart.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.investsmart.com.au/news/news.asp?Action=Display&DocID=AGE090727LS7IP58K0RG"><B>GOOGLE is facing the greatest challenge yet to its might in Australia as two of its largest media customers threaten to pull their business in retaliation against the internet company's decision to enter the real estate listings market.</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.investsmart.com.au/news/news.asp?Action=Display&DocID=AGE090727LS7IP58K0RG"><P>But almost a third of their traffic comes via Google, Hitwise reports, which raises the question of who needs who more? Google has 92 per cent of the search advertising market and this year is expected to book revenues close to $1 billion.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.investsmart.com.au/news/news.asp?Action=Display&DocID=AGE090727LS7IP58K0RG"><P>If the two companies carried out their threat then Google faces the loss of millions of dollars of revenue in Australia.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.investsmart.com.au/news/news.asp?Action=Display&DocID=AGE090727LS7IP58K0RG"><P>"Google is moving from being a search engine to a portal. Instead of sending you to other websites - which have paid money to be there on its listings - it is now serving up the end data itself.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.investsmart.com.au/news/news.asp?Action=Display&DocID=AGE090727LS7IP58K0RG"><P>"That then raises the question: why would you need to go to the other sites and why would they then pay Google money [for search keywords]. Google has opened up a Pandora's box of questions."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7357EDFC-906D-4570-AE90-A37DD2141B5D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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