Google to Stomp On Classified Ad Sellers

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Steve Rubel reports Google is gearing up readying a fierce fight for classified ad dollars as evidenced by a job posting the company placed on HotJobs seeking a Classified Vertical Markets Director who would be given responsibility to “develop and execute on a strategy for driving ad sales with all advertisers in the Classifieds category on a national/international level, working with all sales channels and resources (DSO, ISO, Online).” With the launch of Google Base, a tool that allows anyone to add anything to Google’s database, the move into the classified space is a no brainer. While it might take a while to ween people from the likes of Craig’s List and newspaper classified placements, there’s no doubt, a serious dent will be made by Google in this space. Rubel also reports Microsoft isn’t going to let Google have all the fun.

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