Here’s an interesting post on searching for properties on Google from the Google Blog. Here’s their “OneBox” real estate search for Seattle Real Estate: Here’s where you land after doing that basic OneBox search: There’s no announcement that I’m aware of to prompt this. It may be an effort to gain more interest/involvement for Google …

I’ve written about online ad “exchanges” in the past, which is one of the more interesting developments in online advertising in my opinion. There’s RightMedia, which Yahoo! owns a piece of, Root Exchange, AdECN and, now, of course DoubleClick. Here’s the NY Times’ write up of the proposed DoubleClick exchange: The online advertisement exchange will …

An article in the eMarketer newsletter today predicts that the “four big portals” (Google, Yahoo!, AOL, MSN) are grabbing an increasing share of online ad spending: Add to that a fifth contestant, MySpace, which is rapidly moving from “social networking” site to a portal play. The mainstreaming of MySpace is all-but-complete complete with the launch …