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Yahoo to Launch Blog Ad Network

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the escalating-the-battle dept.

Art Vanderlay writes "Yahoo is launching the much anticipated ad network for small Web publishers today, intended to strengthen its hand against rival Google, a source familiar with the plan told CNET. The service will undoubtedly turn up the heat in Yahoo and Google's ongoing rivalry to dominate Web advertising. Syndicated search revenue for Google was $630 million, of Google's $1.38 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2005."

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  1. I wonder... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If the ads are more insightful than the blog posts. I'm going to say... yes.

  2. Re:I'm curious... by lucabrasi999 · · Score: 2, Funny
    What are the rates for these services?

    One MMMMIIIILLLLLIIIIIIIOOOOOOONNNNNNNN Dollars!

  3. Re:Guess I'll be signing up by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

    "...and won't give any reasonable explanation as to why..." quoth Motherfucking Shit.

    Hmm. ;)

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  4. Formula for success by jesuscyborg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Microsoft and Yahoo's new formula for success on the web seems to be: Do whatever Google does!

    1. Re:Formula for success by Momoru · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well that strategy worked for Google...they just did what Yahoo and Microsoft did....

  5. Yahoo will never win... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    If Yahoo employees can't even park, how can they ever hope to defeat Google?

  6. Re:Microsoft won't be too far behind ... by digidave · · Score: 2, Funny

    Whoa! Don't be so hasty. MS just read about this now, so they've got to get a dev team together later today, wait for Yahoo to launch so they can steal ideas, then develop their own. Before they launch they will need to market it as an innovative revolution in online ads until finally it launches and nobody cares about it.

    At least that's what they did with MSN search and MSN maps.

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  7. Ad == Credibility? by Thunderstruck · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been all around this great big web
    and I've seen all kinds of 'blogs
    But I can't wait to get back to the blogs
    that are good enough to support ads...

    (With appologies to the Beach Boys)

    My question is, does the presence of advertising on an otherwise ordinary web log make it look more credible to the average web surfer?

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