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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."

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  1. For once, I say wow: could work AND be fair! by zijus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Well, I went through a bit of basic digging. See the google adsense quick quick tour

    My first move was obviously again some highly intrusive, content distortion, un-fair adv system. Well... it does not not look like that at all. I am surprised. I believe their system could be fair, and provide adv while not ruining pages showing up adv. A while ago I read about systems adding links into web content on the client side. Just imagine an email from your best friend, viewed through an internet browser, polluted with random links! I mean in the text of the email not around. Maddening. So I was concerned about this AdSense being similar.

    It looks like eventually some advertisers get the point that web adv can be not more than a text link. No pics, no flash, no pop up... At least AdSense looks like that from snapshot: only text. From an end user point of view I say: well if it's clearly identified as ad, and indeed non obtrusive (i.e. on the side not flashy) I could think about accepting the idea.

    Summary: for the first time I have the feeling this could respect all users, be fair, be efficient... Wow !

    Z.