Techblog: Verizon and Google in search deal?
Techblog: Verizon and Google in search deal?
Report: Verizon and Google in search deal
Verizon and Google apparently are working on a deal to make Google the default search provider for mobile devices and perhaps more.The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon Communications is close to announcing a deal that would create a one-stop shop for mobile searches powered by Google. The deal would help Verizon Wireless pull in more mobile ad revenue, which has been generally anemic. Ultimately, Verizon could place a Google search bar on the home screen of its phones, the Journal said.
Google would get a share of the revenue. And more importantly, it could offer more relevant ads for Verizon users by incorporating location information from the handsets.
The deal signals some improving relations between the two companies. This year Google bid up the C Block of the 700 Mhz wireless spectrum that Verizon ultimately paid $4.7 billion for. Google also managed to place open access rules on the C Block over Verizon's objections. Verizon also has been reluctant to join Google's new operating system, Android, which is scheduled to premiere this year on T-Mobile.
The agreement could eventually spill over into Verizon's Web portal or FIOS TV, the Journal said. But for mobile searches, it shows the potential business to be had if mobile carriers and search giants like Google and Verizon team up to make the experience more friendly for mobile users. It's a far cry from online search revenue, but most people assume that with more robust Internet-capable phones, mobile search will start pulling in big money soon.
- Ryan Kim
Citizen journalist site to pay contributors
Allvoices.com, a San Francisco startup that collects and posts news reports from anybody anywhere in the world (as long as they're over 13), is now paying for contributions.
Citizen journalists whose work gets at least 100,000 page views in six months will earn $1,000. If they achieve 1 million page views, they will earn $10,000. If you have a blog and install Allvoices' blogging widget, whatever you write on your blog will be posted directly on Allvoices' site.
The offer expires Feb. 19.
Founder Amra Tareen launched the company in July as a way to get people from all over the world talking about current events. She is a Muslim who grew up in Pakistan and Australia and is an engineer, a Harvard Business School graduate and a former venture capitalist.
She said she realized when she returned to Pakistan to help widows and orphans from the 2005 earthquake that "people didn't like Americans that much. I realized it's not a great state of affairs."
She also discovered that she had a lot of stories to tell about the courage and resilience of the people she met in Pakistan, but no way to tell them. "If I don't know how to optimize a blog for search and build a reputation, nobody will ever look at my stories," she said. "About 80 percent of blogs are never read."
Right now, all content that's submitted to Allvoices is automatically posted after it's combined with other relevant content that Allvoices finds on the Web. In the future, however, Tareen expects to hire human editors. She'd also like to build a community of good contributors and has pitched Allvoices to journalism schools because she figures their graduates will have a hard time finding jobs.
Allvoices expects to make money through advertising and will share a percentage of that revenue with contributors, Tareen said.
Report: Verizon and Google in search deal
Verizon and Google apparently are working on a deal to make Google the default search provider for mobile devices and perhaps more.The Wall Street Journal reported that Verizon Communications is close to announcing a deal that would create a one-stop shop for mobile searches powered by Google. The deal would help Verizon Wireless pull in more mobile ad revenue, which has been generally anemic. Ultimately, Verizon could place a Google search bar on the home screen of its phones, the Journal said.
Google would get a share of the revenue. And more importantly, it could offer more relevant ads for Verizon users by incorporating location information from the handsets.
The deal signals some improving relations between the two companies. This year Google bid up the C Block of the 700 Mhz wireless spectrum that Verizon ultimately paid $4.7 billion for. Google also managed to place open access rules on the C Block over Verizon's objections. Verizon also has been reluctant to join Google's new operating system, Android, which is scheduled to premiere this year on T-Mobile.
The agreement could eventually spill over into Verizon's Web portal or FIOS TV, the Journal said. But for mobile searches, it shows the potential business to be had if mobile carriers and search giants like Google and Verizon team up to make the experience more friendly for mobile users. It's a far cry from online search revenue, but most people assume that with more robust Internet-capable phones, mobile search will start pulling in big money soon.
- Ryan Kim
Citizen journalist site to pay contributors
Allvoices.com, a San Francisco startup that collects and posts news reports from anybody anywhere in the world (as long as they're over 13), is now paying for contributions.
Citizen journalists whose work gets at least 100,000 page views in six months will earn $1,000. If they achieve 1 million page views, they will earn $10,000. If you have a blog and install Allvoices' blogging widget, whatever you write on your blog will be posted directly on Allvoices' site.
The offer expires Feb. 19.
Founder Amra Tareen launched the company in July as a way to get people from all over the world talking about current events. She is a Muslim who grew up in Pakistan and Australia and is an engineer, a Harvard Business School graduate and a former venture capitalist.
She said she realized when she returned to Pakistan to help widows and orphans from the 2005 earthquake that "people didn't like Americans that much. I realized it's not a great state of affairs."
She also discovered that she had a lot of stories to tell about the courage and resilience of the people she met in Pakistan, but no way to tell them. "If I don't know how to optimize a blog for search and build a reputation, nobody will ever look at my stories," she said. "About 80 percent of blogs are never read."
Right now, all content that's submitted to Allvoices is automatically posted after it's combined with other relevant content that Allvoices finds on the Web. In the future, however, Tareen expects to hire human editors. She'd also like to build a community of good contributors and has pitched Allvoices to journalism schools because she figures their graduates will have a hard time finding jobs.
Allvoices expects to make money through advertising and will share a percentage of that revenue with contributors, Tareen said.
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