Google Way Too Fascinated With Old Media

Television, radio, newspapers, telephony, and now magazines may vie for Google's attention. Did multi-billion dollar search ads become boring?

You're right, I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars *next* year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in... 60 years.
-- Google would have to lose $13.7 million per year, based on Consumer Price Index, to match HuoMah.com blog on picking up a new patent issued to Google. The patent's Michael Arrington suggested this could be the harbinger of Google Magazine. Instead of being written and published by jaded New Yorkers, it would be written by whoever the reader liked reading, and published by Google with ads included as part of the copy.

(Any bets on how heavily this would be used for, ahem, adult content? Google is going to need to spend a lot on the myriad flesh-tone colors that exist. Time to buy stock in whatever company makes those printer inks, perhaps?)

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