After colonising cyberspace, Google is going into the newspaper business. The search engine giant is in talks with several newspaper publishers to sell space in their pages to its online clients.

This expansion will worry bosses of rival media companies, including ITV chairman Michael Grade, who has already called for greater regulation on the fast-growing Google.

Google Print Ads is an extension of Google AdWords, the auction system that lets companies bid for a slot that appears alongside specific online word searches.

Google Considers Selling Ads To UK Publishers [business.timesonline.co.uk]

Here is the earlier discussion about US-based print ads.
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[edited by: engine at 6:00 pm (utc) on Jan. 2, 2008]