The technology spin-offs of three leading Israeli Universities are to collaborate with
Google on research looking at online auctions.
The search giant is sponsoring
Hebrew University,
Tel Aviv University and Technion to conduct over 20 such research projects which will address the opportunities of the Internet economy, posing questions around the economic effects of viral networking, the dynamics of electronic markets, and new formats of selling advertisements, which could be beneficial to the user and the advertisers, according to the
press release.