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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. More competition is good? by pipatron · · Score: 2, Insightful

    it is good to see more competition in this space

    Somehow I don't agree here. *gee* it would really rock if all ads were completely *free* so that there can be an infinite amount of ads on the internet!

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    1. Re:More competition is good? by MindStalker · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Strangely enough advertising is one of those things no one not even the buyer wants to be free. If it is free there are two many ads and no one pays attention to your ad. Advertisers understand this and would refuse to buy from an advertising company where the ads were too cheap or there were simply too many ads.

  2. is this a Joke ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful


    http://news.google.com/news?q=Quigo

    all there is in the news about this "upstart" company are self-made press releases and PR fluff, nothing at all about Google and competition (except this Slashdot article) and how much of an impact they are making in the contextual text ad market space (which is very crowded as it is)

    seems NYTimes fell for the "PR as news" gag and Slashdot has repeated it (not that we care as we hate any adverts)

  3. Re:My predictions by KiloByte · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Now, please tell me whom the poster of this article works for.

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