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An Ad Upstart Forces Google to Open Up a Little

Posted by Hemos on from the from-the-smallest-mustard-seeds dept.

The Firehose brought us a link from the NYTimes about Quigo. As the Times feed says: "Yahoo and Google are facing a challenge from a tiny adversary named Quigo Technologies over contextual text ads online." And while obviously not in the same financial league, it is good to see more competition in this space.

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  1. My predictions by TinBromide · · Score: 4, Funny

    5% This upstart stands a chance and gains market/mind share
    25% They get bought up by a google competitor like msn or yahoo
    20% They get bought up by google itself
    50% The slashdot posts about this upstart will cause an increase in popularity and then bring their main servers to its knees trying to keep up with all the revenue free hits.

    My other prediction? Apple rolls out an ad service called iPimp, hires Al gore and claims it invented the internet advertisement, the internet, and the advertisement.

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    1. Re:My predictions by ObsessiveMathsFreak · · Score: 2, Funny

      Your post fails to account for the 95% chance that the entrenched players will use their patent leverage to crush the upstart. After all, competition is for communists.

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