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Fri 03 Mar 2007Placing ads on search engines new growth area Underlining the huge growth in spend on online advertising with the major search engines, Martin Murray, chief executive of Interactive Return, says that this year two of his clients will spend over €1 million each on search engine advertising.Murray reports that every month he is seeing more of his clients marketing budgets being diverted away from TV, radio, print and outdoor advertising and being invested in online - and in particular search engine advertising.