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Google Ads for RSS Feeds Goes Beta

Posted by Zonk on from the my-suggestion-for-next-feature-root-beer-floats dept.

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."

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  1. Extensions quickly please! by oneandoneis2 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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. . .

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    1. Re:Extensions quickly please! by zerbot · · Score: 5, Funny

      Damn all ads! Bandwidth is free and those schmucks don't deserve to get paid for their sucky content (even though I like it enough to check it every day).

    2. Re:Extensions quickly please! by Orion+Blastar's+Psyc · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It just gets annoying after a while to see all the adds in your favorite RSS feed. Won't this just make people unsubscribe or use a RSS reader than filters out the ads?

  2. Beta? by richie2000 · · Score: 5, Funny
    The program is currently in Beta

    No, say it ain't so! A Google program that's in beta? I'm shocked!

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  3. How will this effect sites like Technorati? by DanCentury · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.