Google to Distribute Image Ads, Plans Email List Service

comforteagle writes "For the next shot in the search engine advertising war Google has launched image ads in addition to their popular text AdSense program. From Google's explanation page: 'Image ads will show in rotation with text ads. On a page by page basis, Google's technology determines whether text ads or image ads are likely to make you more money, and serves the best ads to your page.'" Another reader writes: "eWEEK.com is reporting that Google has begun testing a new mailing list service, Google Groups 2, sure to go head-to-head with Yahoo Groups. It eventually will replace what is today only a Usenet archive. Users of the new beta can start their own mailing lists (public or private) and in typical Google fashion, it is promising to put search front and center (even hinting at postings being included in Web search one day)."

Comments

Win an award then stab you in the back?

[Fullmetal Edward]

I thought Google just won an award for it's services and how well it was doing acording to the users.

So now they change it all around and go "NYA! POP UPS NEXT!". We all know pop ups is the next step after this, how long is it untill google trys them "for a while"?

Re:Load times

[syrinx]

I know Image adverts are not going to appear on Google itself, but 50KB is still 13 seconds for most modem users!

Yeah, and images take forever to display on my 4 MHz IBM XT, too.