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Google Allows Sponsored Rankings...In Ads

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the not-that-big-a-deal dept.

A number of written that the sky is fallen because Google is allowing sponsored rankings. Of course, if you read the article it's the sponsored links on the right side of the page - where the ads have always been.

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  1. Product Link by piersevent · · Score: 3, Informative

    For crying out loud people, here's the link

    1. Re:Product Link by trenton · · Score: 3, Informative
      Yeah, and it's wrong. The story has more recent info. From your link:
      You can't be locked out.

      Ads go up instantly. Your clickthrough rate and CPC together determine where your ads are shown, so better ads rise to the top. That means no one can lock you out of the top position.

      But, according to the article, you can pay to get better placement. The dude with more cash will get better placement. Or, at least, that's how I read it.
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  2. hardly obtrusive by spir0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I've never noticed the ads before. I had to go back and look for them after reading this.

    I agree with others who say this isn't newsworthy, but to comment, the excite article does say explicitly that the sponsored links are "on the section of Google's site that's devoted to sponsored links" - ie... the side.. in really small writing.

    why didn't anybody kick up a stink when yahoo started putting on pop-up windows? or when groups.yahoo started making you click thru an ad randomly when reading message?

    google has to make money from somewhere.. may as well be little tiny ads that nobody notices.

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  3. Re:This is the way it should have been. by pangloss · · Score: 4, Informative

    ah such bad form, replying to my own post, but here:

    i just found this google faq about ad positioning, too.

  4. Licensing by Tazzy531 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Google, like a lot of the .coms that are still alive, don't make their money directly off of the consumers/users. A good majority of their revenue is from licensing deals with other companies. Yahoo is one of the biggest client of googles. They leverage google's search engine for yahoo's web searches. This alone could bring in a couple million a year. In addition, a couple weeks ago, there was a posting on /. about Google's search/document caching system that they are selling to companies for 20k.

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  5. Re:If they bother you that much... by Xenopax · · Score: 3, Informative

    I really don't know why people would want to get rid of google advertisements. Google is the only site on the net whose ads I pay any attention to. The ads are obvious, targeted, and (get ready for this one) they are NOT annoying. I think anyone out there who strips google ads is an idiot, because it hurts our favorite FREE search engine, and you will miss ads that are actually USEFUL.