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How Text Ads Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web
securitas writes "In Sunday's New York Times, Randall Stross writes about How Google Tamed Ads on the Wild, Wild Web and how it is largely responsible for the demise of the odious pop-under ad. From the article: "Without intending to do so, the company set in motion multilateral disarmament by telling its first advertisers in 2000: text only, please. No banner ads, no images, no animation.... Google introduced these ads at the very moment when X10 ads were strewn like chewed gum on every square of sidewalk. X10's pop-unders were accepted at mainstream sites run by companies including Microsoft, Yahoo and The New York Times." Remember that "in mid-2001, X10's company Web site was the fourth-most visited" on the Web. Thank you, Google." I'd actually argue that while the text ads had something to do with it, the massive growth in pop-up/under blockers made as much of a difference, if not even more.
I'd actually that while the text ads had something to do with it, the massive growth in pop-up/under blockers made a large difference as well.
He might ADD, too.
You insensitive clod!
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You think X10 ads are bad? How about those horrific porn banners. Warning: link contains some awful porn banners, with cynical comments like:
Yes! Yes! Porn for the whole goddamn family! Porn for mommy, porn for daddy, even porn for little Sally and little Billy. The sad thing is, even this site says you must be over 18 to enter. If it wasn't for this little bit of false advertising, this would be the greatest porn ad ever.
This is awful. What kind of inhuman slime continues to have sex with a girl even after she goes into epileptic shock? Truly one of the more sickening fetishes I've encountered. If you play music while watching this banner, her twitching almost seems to be rhythmic.
I love how he's crossing his arms, effectively communicating just how smug he is over his new endowment. But I somehow doubt that's "100% Natural". And no girl is going to let me get within 100 feet of her with that thing. Plus, shopping for pants is hard enough as it is.
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Kim Jung Il has been seen on eBay alot recently, he just bid on a new reactor for his WMD collection.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
minutes. At home, arseholes at walnut are t1ed up in EFNet, and apply only way to go:
I'm a performance artist... professional wrestling has very very strong ties (not necessarily overt, but certainly implied) to performance art. Most things in performance art that have been lauded as influential and important took place in professional wrestling decades before they took place in the art world.
I've gotten a substantial grant to research this and it will eventually be compiled in book form to be published by a major Boston area university. As much as I'm a "homo" and love to "suck a dick" I'm doing what I believe will be fairly important research in a historical context.
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