1.0 link 159544 <![CDATA[Google Scraps Newspaper Ad Program]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/20/google-scraps-newspaper-a_n_159544.html SAN FRANCISCO &mdash; Google Inc. is giving up on selling print ads for the ailing newspaper industry, ending a 2-year-old attempt to extend its dominance of Internet marketing into another medium.

The retrenchment announced Tuesday is part of a cost-cutting campaign aimed at boosting Google's profits as the deepening recession eats away at Google's bread-and-butter business of selling ads on its own Web site and thousands of other Internet destinations.

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