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Graphics Coming to Google Ads

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

Firmafest writes "New York Times reports that "Users of Google's search engine will soon see something they are not used to on the notoriously spare site: advertising with logos and graphics. And the advertisers will not be limited to America Online, whose talks with Google prompted the change in policy, according to two executives close to the companies' negotiations." The Financial Times has more on the partnership" CT: Sorry folks. My email is broken this morning and i'm not getting error reports.

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  1. code by uberjoe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What ever happened to 'Don't be Evil' ?

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    1. Re:code by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Interesting

      The real question is: What makes this new? Google has had image ads for its adsense program for at least 6 months. Probably longer.

      The good news is that the ads generally quite good, and try not to annoy you. As an adsense partner, you can also chose whether you have the ads on or off.

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  2. Google vs. Yahoo, the gap slims by mister_llah · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not too much of a surprise, but considering the lack of 'tacky' advertising was what seemed to have led a lot of people to Google (as opposed to staying with Yahoo) ... I have to wonder if it is really the best move.

    Financially, it's a good move. They get a lot of traffic, it's good money.

    Socially, perhaps not such a wise choice. ... but we'll all take it in stride, since we have no other choice, I guess...

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  3. Brilliant! by Jerry+Coffin · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Now that's brilliant business:
    Google: widely respected and quite profitable.
    AOL: being bought out, and gets exactly the respect it deserves.

    [closed captioning for the humor impaired: sarcasm to follow]
    Obviously Google should be taking AOL's advice about how to finally achieve some real success, right?
    [end sarcasm]

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  4. Jumped the Shark by barik · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Honestly, it looks to me that Google has jumped the shark. Google now reminds me of just about every other company during the DotCom bubble burst.

    Don't get me wrong -- I'm glad Google is around. They're providing some much needed competition in the web area, but I fear that things are going to get much worse before they get better.

    Google has a lot of great technologies, but all of their income comes from advertising. So if they want to expand, and maintain free services, their only option is basically to ramp up their advertising. Whether they can do that without annoying their users remains to be seen.

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