Liberty Media Corp is ready to discuss with Time Warner Inc the details of purchase of one part of AOL, dial-up provider AOL ISP. According to the company's head, John Malone, Liberty Capital, which is a shareholder of Time Warner, is very interested in buying profitable companies, but today is experiencing a deficit of proposals.

As of May 2007, Liberty owned shares of Time Warner in the amount of $ 103 million, representing 2.8%. Then $ 68.5 million in shares was exchanged for a baseball team Atlanta Braves Major League and Time's property - Leisure Arts group.

According to Reuters

Analytical company Covario has reported that Yahoo, for the first time in the last two years, received large budgets on search advertising in the second quarter of 2008 from Google.

According to Covario, Yahoo increased its own share in the U.S. by 10% in Q1'08 to 14% in Q2'08. At the same time Google shifted from 86% to 81% over the same period.

Covario also noted a general decline in the growth of commercial search because of unfavourable period of economy, budgetary constraints and better optimization, which helps reduce the budgets for advertising. According to the company, the rate of annual market growth declined from 52% to 43%.

YouTube Video-hosting site has expanded posting clip opportunities and offered users to upload a few videos at a time, as well as video larger than 100 MB, to the site without additional software. The technology is based on Google Gears.

New version of Gears allows you to upload large files on a web that in the long run will lead to the disappearance of programs-loaders.

According to Google Operating System

Yahoo announced the launch of function that allows to disconnection customized search function on the basis of personal user data. All users will be able to disable the system to collect personal information and its use.

This decision is a response to the proceedings initiated by supervisory authorities with regard to issues of privacy and collection of personal information.

Google also will launch similar function in the near future. Moreover, Google will limit targeting by the number of displayed ads for each user. This feature is part of the functions offered by DoubleClick.

According to Search Engine Watch

Omniture that offers software solutions for business optimization announced a partnership with leading Chinese search engine Baidu.com.

Software from Omniture SearchCenter allows to control and predict site promotion, automating biding of keywords and work with different search engines from a single interface.

The integration of program from Omniture with the Chinese search engine allows advertisers to produce better management of sites and optimize advertising budgets in Baidu.

According to the search management the Chinese Internet audience continues to grow so the advertisers are very interested in the possibilities for targeting advertisements to selected audiences.

According to the forecasts of research company IDC, China's population of Internet users by 2011 will presumably include 378.9 million. The volume of advertising market by this time will presumably reach $ 4,328 billion.

According to Information Technology