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Google To Release AdWords API

Posted by Hemos on from the what-will-become-of-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Good Morning Silicon Valley reports that Google is planning to release an API for AdWords. Apparently, the company secretly brought 1,800 marketing and sales people to San Francisco last week to debrief them on the initiative."

6 of 92 comments (clear)

  1. Scoop - real links. by RobertTaylor · · Score: 4, Informative

    The links to the full article are here and here .

    The link in the story is to an overview paragraph.

  2. Key part of the article by SuperJason · · Score: 5, Informative

    Be sure you notice this line: The Google API is only available to advertisers and not to online publishers carrying Google ads.

  3. DE-brief? by tjic · · Score: 4, Informative
    to "brief" means to tell someone something.

    to "debrief" means to ask THEM for details.

    I sincerely doubt that Google brought 1,500 marketroids out to harvest intelligence from them.

    1. Re:DE-brief? by sepluv · · Score: 2, Informative
      Actually debrief can also mean:
      1. to remove someones underwear
      2. to tell someone how a process works after they have been through it (maybe this is the definition being used here)
      3. to instruct an ex-employee not to reveal secret information
      --
      Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley
      [This post is in the public domain (copyright-free) unless otherwise stated]
  4. adword abuse by jrschulz · · Score: 3, Informative

    In other news, The Register shows how stupid google's adword system is abused.

  5. Re:FREE MAC MINIS by jascat · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not ready for everyday usage? That's funny because I use it every day. People should write sites that are standards compliant and Firefox wouldn't have problems rendering it. I can't think of any time that Firefox has had problems rendering a site for many months, certainly since well before 1.0. Standards are there for a reason and just becuase certain browsers decided to ignore them doesn't mean that the authors of those sites should be catering to those non-compliant browsers. But all of this is off-topic.