SEO Max Your ROI Newsletter, 23 Aug 05, p4

Murdoch stated at a recent press conference; "There is no greater priority for the company today than to meaningfully and profitably expand its Internet presence and to properly position ourselves from the explosion in broadband usage that we're now starting to see,"
News Corp recently announced it would acquire Intermix and the youth portal MySpace, having also acquired Scout a college sports site.
"Our strategy is quite simple," Murdoch said. "News Corp. at its core is about content. The Web at its core is about personal choice. What we are aiming to do is combine the two, and in the process redefine the meaning of [an] Internet vertical."
He has created Fox Interactive Media "FIM" , soon News Corp will have 50 million unique visitors a month and $23 billion a year in revenue pushing it along ...
Murdoch said News Corp. was in "advanced talks" to acquire a search company. He said investors wouldn't consider the price significant. Miva, Lycos & Looksmart come to mind.

Totally unrelated but the writer of one of my favourite road books "Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas" went off with a bang when his ashes were dispersed via fireworks off a 47 metre tower in Colarado. I like the idea of the funeral pyre but this one is good!
A man with an appetite for alcohol, drugs and life, he left this as his signature quote: "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

More cash in the kitty will enable acquisitions, and hopefully perhaps bring on a much awaited messaging solution? Competition with MSN and Yahoo is fierce.

A search for "on demand", "to be or not to be" or "mono" in Google illustrates what is going on. A Google spokesperson has stated the results are not paid listings, saying the demarcated results are a search relevancy experiment.