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Graphics Coming to Google Ads
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.
Here's my suggestion:I've been using it for quite a while, and while it's not a complete replacement for Google, it's certainly useful.
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True. And if Google used IFRAMEs, then I'd block them...
The more advanced the technology, the more open it is to primitive attack
Google has made a bunch of money on ads and a ton of capital on stock sales. It's now time for them to pay their owners and justify that stock price. And writing cool, but free software can't be the solution by itself.
The hope is, however, that even if they are on the downslide to pop-under flash ads, that it at least takes them awhile to get there.
There's nothing inherently wrong with picture ads, it's when the picture ads take up the entire viewing space, start blinking at you, and then cause page transfer rates to slow to a crawl that they become an issue. Maybe they will show some restraint and we'll have respectfully sized and presented picture ads. That may be tolerable. We'll just have to see.
Yeah, what kind of idiot would put all of his banners in a folder called banners? Surely that's way stupider than blindly blocking all folders called banners... Sigh.