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Feature Story / While
Associated Press reports that while Google plays
Santa by giving away $3 Million to help scan
documents at the Library of Congress -- gold may
edge out both Google and Santa in a $500 race
towards spending around Christmas time,
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The latest step in Google's crusade to
expand the amount of information that can be
indexed by its Internet search engine, has been
doing its best to help both the
author and publisher, set up a system for creating
digital copies of rare documents from around the
world
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With the donation, Mountain
View, Calif.-based Google becomes the first
business to back the World Digital Library, which
began to take shape about five months ago. The
worldwide program is loosely modeled after the
Library of Congress' American Memory
project.
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Gold May Edge Out Google in
$500 Race, Bloomberg New said in late November,
2005 that in the race for the $500 mark, gold is
poised to beat Google Inc. -- and Santa should beat
out Google in total sales around the world in
December
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Gold rose $3.40 to $489 an
ounce -- an 18-year high -- in New York futures
trading Monday, as more hedge funds and other
speculators climbed aboard the metal's latest
rally.
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There's pressure to run gold
up to $500, and a lotta people jumping on the
bandwagon."
To help
Christmas sales,
Google is ready to go with
its new Patented Classified Ads
GoogleBase
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Google will Allow Uploads to
Searchable Database. The new Google Inc. service
will let anyone upload most anything to a publicly
searchable database, potentially laying the
groundwork for a push by the Internet juggernaut
into classified advertising.
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The venture, Google Base,
could also signal grander ambitions for the king of
online search-related advertising.
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Expected to be available
today, Google Base has the potential to make
instantly available a vast sea of content including
-- but not limited to -- recipes, job listings,
photos, DNA sequences, real estate listings and
individual stand-alone databases.
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Normally, it takes Web
"crawlers" days or weeks to scour the Web and feed
Mountain View, Calif.-based Google's main search
engine with updated information. This tool will
make locating anything that's been uploaded nearly
instantaneous, provided it finds users willing to
supply the information.
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Those in the loop at Google,
say that they are targeting the online auction
market dominated by EBay Inc. The patent Google is
seeking, create Internet ads automatically and
makes it easier for people to sell products on the
Web.
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Google Automat will let
advertisers enter details of items they want to
sell and automatically create an ad under one
minute, according to a filing with the U.S. Patent
and Trademark
Office.
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Investors and traders who
like this news, have been jumping on the bandwagon
of Internet search engine Google, which rose $9.15
to a record $409.36 a share this
week. Part
02 Gold Keeps Up with Google
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Gold and Google have nothing in common, of
course -- except that both have been highly coveted
by investors this year. Their performance in recent
weeks has begun to resemble a horse race toward
$500.
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Brokerage UBS, in separate reports Monday,
said that gold could reach $500 in the next three
months and that Google should cross that mark in
the next 12 months.
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Gold is up $51.50 an ounce, or 12%, this
year, and many gold-mining stocks have racked up
even bigger gains. Goldcorp Inc., which rose $1.06
to $21.32 on Monday, is up 42% this year; Glamis
Gold is up 34% after rallying 79 cents to $22.92 on
Monday.
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Investment demand for the metal has been
driven by rising U.S. inflation. Gold historically
has been an inflation
hedge.
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Gold's rally also stems from concern about
supply relative to demand, said John Licata, an
independent market analyst in New York. Global
consumption of the metal, including jewelry use,
was 2,773 tons in the first nine months, up 16%
from a year earlier, the World Gold Council
said.
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On the supply side, South Africa, the
world's biggest gold producer, said Monday that its
output fell 15% in the third quarter, the largest
drop in at least nine years, because of mine
closures.
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As the metal's price rises it is creating
its own momentum, attracting investors who had all
but abandoned gold in the 1990s, some analysts
say.
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"The gold genie has been let out of the
bottle, and we are looking at $500 an ounce by the
end of 2005 and $600 by the end of 2006 on momentum
alone," said Thomas Au, an analyst at R.W.
Wentworth in New York.
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As for Google, its shares should jump 25% in
the next 12 months, UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter
said in a report. "Based on Google's current
products and trends, the stock remains
undervalued," he said.
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Yahoo is testing New dial a telephone number
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Yahoo Inc. is testing a
system that allows companies to purchase Internet
ads and pay only when customers dial a telephone
number listed in the
ad.
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Yahoo is conducting testing
of so-called pay-per-call technology, a spokeswoman
said. The test is being done with Ingenio Inc., a
closely held company in San Francisco that already
displays ads on Time Warner Inc.'s America
Online.
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