Hungry Media Companies Find a Meager Menu of Web Sites to Buy

[SOURCE: New York Times, AUTHOR: Matt Richtel]
Digital-era media companies like Yahoo and Google, as well as traditional media companies, including those with deep roots in television and print, continue to scour the Internet for emerging content and technology companies. But the pickings of obvious acquisition candidates, while hardly exhausted, are slimming, according to financiers, entrepreneurs and industry analysts who follow the sector. That leaves the media companies trying to figure out -- as they did with far less discipline during the dot-com boom -- which of the emerging generation of Web sites have lasting business models or, at least, can continue to build traffic.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/13/business/media/13net.html
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