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Google Ads for RSS Feeds Goes Beta
flood6 writes "Google has launched their service to offer contextual ads via their AdSense program through RSS feeds. The program is currently in Beta but will allow webmasters who offer RSS feeds of their content to include ads in the feeds (which often appear on other websites or through aggregators); someone clicks on the ad, the owner of the feed makes a little scratch."
If they're going to start contaminating my Live Bookmarks with bloody adverts, I hope it won't be long before Adblock can cover RSS feeds as well as web pages. . .
So.. it has come to this
An attempt to cram more advertising onto the Internet [not actually considered a good thing by most people] has gone into Beta [not actually ready for widespread use / public consumption]
... Help me Jebus, this Google fixation has gone too far.
This is news, how?
Googles has released their adsense-program for RSS-feeds, its available to users with more than 100 subscribers.
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More info straight from google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/feed-me.ht
Apply form: http://services.google.com/ads_inquiry/aff
Slashdot has RSS ads... but they also place the entire article listed on the site in the RSS feed. I can understand that a little better...
However, listing in a typical RSS feed (with just titles and summeries) is dumb. It's like a porn site where you never know if you are going to click on something legit or an ad.
Google is simply pursuing one more avenue of content delivery for their advertisers. Those who wish to find ways to try and block the new ads should take note of one important thing, however: Google's ads are teeny, unintrusive, and even I find myself clicking on them often. Consider the repercussions of trying to block the RSS ads as equivalent to commercial skip on TiVO - advertisers pay for everything, and the deliverer of them makes less.
I, for one, like to see Google make money.
My point is to just read a news story Joe Sixpack will have to find his way through tons of Ads.
fuvoo: watch something
A cursory browse through the links in the article, and a couple of clicks beyond, does not explain to me how this works.
In the standard Adsense service, one puts a snippet of Javascript in one's pages, which the browser runs to fetch ads. The ads are targetted using what Google knows about the referrer URL, and the browser's IP address.
I don't believe many RSS aggregators will do anything with embedded Javascript in an RSS feed, so how does Google add ads to a feed? Does this only work on feeds hosted by Google?
Scratch, eh?
Maude, eh?
Internet, eh?
So much for 'Do no evil'
Makes a little scratch in what? Wood? Glass? Diamond?
Don't keep me in suspense, man!
What?!? It means money? Oh.
Nevermind.
Show me on the doll where his noodly appendage touched you.
and tags into the feed which contains ads.
Don't style the rss feed! If the links doesn't go to your site and you want ads, then don't offer the bloody feed!
No, say it ain't so! A Google program that's in beta? I'm shocked!
Money for nothing, pix for free
Google is no longer a search engine/content delivery service. WE are now the product being sold by Google.
Sure it's no different fro how television and radio stations make money, but I think we need to face the fact that Google now exists primarily to sell ads.
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
the feed page of my opera is going to become polluted.
I think Google has made something great here. I hope people come to realize just how nice it is. I'd much rather have google's personalized ads than some ads on how to Enlarge a certain part of my body.
Now some sites become so weighed down by ads it's painful to look at the sites to try to read an article. Lots of "Next >>" links and blocks of flashy color in the middle of an article. Aaargh! Ah, so we escalate the battle by using the RSS feeds instead. Bliss! Just the news and nothing but the news!
Escalation part deaux: They provide ads in the RSS feeds. Aaargh! We block the ads. They hire hit men to kill us -- ok, maybe we haven't reached that stage yet. But man, I sure get tired of this war of advertising. You'd think they'd catch on that those of us running screaming the other way from ads might not be the best audience for said ads. But no, they think that if they force feed their ads to us, Clockwork Orange style, we'll actually buy their hated products!
And given the consumer bent of most people, they are sadly probably right.
And for those webmasters who use advertising to survive, may the Force be with you. I understand the bargain you make, and I will still read your sites, and if you find a particularly clever and targeted ad, why I might even view it. It's a complicated issue.
how are they supposed to throw ads down my throat if i don't subscribe to the damn feed?
I don't feel like it...
we only have to put up with the ads for the next 5 years.
Technorati works by reading RSS feeds and then letting you search the feed item descriptions and content. Will Technorati end up being a minefield of Google ads? I assume they'll start parsing them out, and maybe banning feeds that use them. Maybe. Maybe not, since their profit model is based on Google ads as well.
Google has banned some spam blogs from their seach listings, but really, what's the difference between a spam blog with an RSS feed that makes money with Google ads, and Google droping ads directly into a feed?
Someone help my simple mind grok the difference.
Why do companies on the web insist on click through ads? I can't click through on TV, Radio or Billboards and they've work fine for decades?
A short message to increase brand awareness is often all thats needed.
Scared of flying, pointy things snce 1979!
This is scraping the barrel for revenue. I don't know if this brings value to consumers; but I do know that Google is doing a good job of tainting something extremely useful for their own benefit. Having ads in my RSS feeds is more intrusive than I normally would expecte from g00gle
And God said "Let there be Google." And it was so. And God saw that Google was good. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
Then, advertising discovered the internet. Ads overran the internet. Pop ups, pop unders, spam, Search engine Optomization ruled the web. God saw this was bad, but figured it would work itself out. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
And God said, "Let there be developers to fight the ads." And it was so. Developers started fighting back, writing software to try to beat back the ads. God saw that this was good, and forgave the developers of their sin of downloading pr0n. And the evening and the morning were the third day.
Then, Google said "Let us put ourt ads everywhere websites will allow us. We shall put them on webpages and in RSS feeds. We shall advertise in every medium we discover." And it was so. They were small and unobstrusive. People had come to believe that Google was actually God and that the universe would cease to exist without it. God became very upset with this and devised a plan. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Then God said, "Let Adblock and Firefox disover all the advertising and block it." And God's developers made it so. And God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Google, adclick, and all the other advertisers began to loose money because nobody saw their ads anymore. Google went out of business and its dominance over the interenet was destroyed. And God saw this was good. God said to the people." Behold, I have given you the internet and rid it of the advertising infestation. You will see that you didn't need Google, and that its services exist elsewhere. You really never needed a 2.5 GB inbox. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Thus the internet was completed and host for all. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
If this encourages more people to use RSS feeds, then that will be a good thing. As far as I know, google still haven't implemented a system to allow Advertisers to choose which site \ RSS feed they will be listed on. Until this happens, most users shouldn't have a problem with the Google system as there's no way for advertisers (apart from Google) to wield undue influence on the publishers.
Good post. Insightful. I'd mod you up but I want to comment instead.
I acknowledge your points, however, there is an effect to which adsense is detrimental to the web experience beyond the irritation of advertising.
The concept that page visits can make money just by viewing a page with in-context ads has led to a resurgence in pages designed just for that purpose, and the SEO (Search-Engine Optimisation) that pushes these pages high in the webs indexes makes it harder to find the real material you're after.
Competition for the top rank at google is between advertisers, not content suppliers. This isn't good for the surfer.
I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
This is great and all, but I'm not gonna use it until I can launch a popup through the RSS aggregator for my penis enlargement pills.
What does this mean?
There are a dwindling number of web pages without Google Ads, is it really a good idea to be saturating the entire Internet experience with everything Google?
Afterall, is not variety the spice of life?
Rivalling the replication success of viruses through a symbiosis steeped in capitalism, is the Internet destined to become one great big Googlenet?
Pray not.
correct >network bunch of retarded
Well I don't know about the rest of you but I use RSS as a souce of clean content to parse for a particular purpose. If they start adding in ads its going to culture up my nice clean data sources. I think that a better way to do this would be something like an email ad campaign opt-in. Where I would agree to get an email advertisement once and a while inexchange for a clean RSS feed.
just because your a schizophrenic doesn't mean people arn't really out to get you
There you go again ! one of the google goodies again !
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Random point, but Google was founded as a technology company, built to design and license their technology to companies like Yahoo. Google.com WAS simply a proof of concept site, but as it grew as a destination and they changed their business model to be an ad channel.
But originally, they were a technology company selling their tech/search results to media companies that would include the advertisements. Much like a studio that puts shows out in syndication... the local stations sell the ads, NOT the studio.
Not that it matters much, but Google's primary objective WAS to have the best search results so the media companies would license it, now it is to use the search results to accumulate visitors to sell ads to.
Alex
Funny how when Google does Ads it's a "Service". Everybody else's ads are a nuisance.
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that the method that generates your feed would have to make a call to an adsense web-service at google to receive the content of the ad which could then be inserted into the feed.
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Check it out: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/google_has_adsense_fo r_rss_any_risks.html
I guess soon Google will start providing feeds for Google News. Finally, they will have a place for those ads they left out.
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from slashdot, in the form of a front page story.
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here, too. Seems to be slightly more informative:3 505976
http://ecommerce-guide.com/news/news/article.php/
They tend to have all sort of services, toolbars, Search, email, etc. But what hasn't they come up with your personal homepage like Geocities?
yeah! right and spam my news sources?
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They are killing the RSS!
suddenly, yahoo search sounds like a more compelling idea.
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