Advertising Hits Arizona County Government Website

Combuchan writes "Just when you thought that pages on your local government's website were the last bastion of the advertisement-free WWW, that may soon change. Maricopa County (seen on slashdot before), home to 3.4 million people in the Phoenix metropolitan area, has seen their GIS website "become an every day tool for realtors, developers, mortgage and title companies, appraisers, inspectors, attorneys and many other professionals associated with the real estate industry." As a result, they are now accepting bids for Web advertisements. As the county is one of the best-run in the nation, this could set quite the precedent."

Comments

Re:Right

[Anonymous Coward]

Serious question: Are you being sarcastic?

All for it

[mmmmmhotpants]

If only this story hadn't leaked until they actually had advertisers. They'd probably make twice as much from the slashdot effect than from a years worth of normal use.

Re:Same thing as cop cars being painted with ad's

[DAldredge]

Thank you for pointing that out, as you can tell from my UID I am new here and am glad to have someone of your experience guide me thru the maze that is /.