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Friday, September 26, 2008

Yahoogle–Bookmark This! (Warning: BoomTown Was Fake-Blurbed by Google!)

It must have been the space cakes here in Amsterdam–otherwise how could we miss mentioning a new Web site that Google has put up about its controversial search advertising outsourcing deal?

Even as the Justice Department drills down on the deal, a very helpful Google PR guy sent information about the site, which is designed to convince critics of the benefits of the Yahoogle partnership.

But, curiously, the site touts the deal by using a woefully-out-of-context quote from a piece I did last week.

Apparently, I support it! (Actually, I do not.)

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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