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Google to Distribute Image Ads, Plans Email List Service

Posted by michael on from the text-is-so-last-year dept.

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)."

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  1. I don't mind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use Lynx to surf.

  2. Re:Here we go again? by mutewinter · · Score: 3, Funny

    If your using Firefox, just right click on an image at google.com and click Block images from google.com. I've already done this on a few message boards I post to, because for some reason people like to use big closeups of their ugly faces as their avatar. Very distracting.

  3. Definitely not. by dj245 · · Score: 1, Funny
    Not on the main Google site, though ...

    Nope. If the keywords "debt", "penis enlargement", or "porn" don't bring up an image ad, nothing will.

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    Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
  4. Re:Here we go again? by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Funny
    Google places the ads on YOUR site

    Hmmm... one of Google's founders is from Soviet Russia. The origins of this ad scheme are starting to make sense to me now.

  5. Screenshots of new Google homepage revealed! by Plutor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Check this out, a screenshot of a Beta version of the post-IPO google.com page has been leaked!
    Leaked screenshot.

    (Note: Yes, I am trolling and flamebaiting. Take that, Karma.)

  6. Re:iFrames? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    yOu oBviously dIdn't gEt iT.

  7. Re:From the FAQ: Animated images will not be accep by iceborer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Am I the only one who can imagine a mom and dad with a young daughter looking on Google for tub toys for their kid...

    Mom: Honey. Jenny needs a new tub toy. Something girlie.

    Dad: Let's look it up on Google.

    Mom: Yeah.

    Dad browses to www.google.com and types... tub girl <Enter>

    Mom: Holy mother of Christ!

    Dad: My eyes! My eyes!