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Google Mulling Video Ads In Search Results

Posted by kdawson on from the are-we-evil-yet dept.

Bombula writes to let us know that Google is "finally succumbing to the power of the almighty dollar" and getting ready to implement image and video ads in sponsored searches.

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  1. Re:Cool for them... by Topherbyte · · Score: 1, Informative

    friends don't let friends Google while surfing.

    try Scroogle

  2. Use Opera by l33t+gambler · · Score: 3, Informative

    Use Opera and add an "enable plug-ins" and "enable GIF/SVG animation" buttons at a convinient spot. I can't really understand why websites use flash or gif animaitons in their articles or news, it makes everything look very messy and unprofessional. Feels like a Tabloid magazine with TV-shop running in the background.

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  3. Re:Not "evil" by clarkkent09 · · Score: 3, Informative

    If there's any news in this, it's watching the semantic argument that should result. People love to quote Google's tenet of "do no evil" and accuse Google of violating it wheneverGoogle opens up a new avenue for earning money. But it's not necessarily evil. It's just something they disagree with. And it's interesting, from a sociological perspective, to see how people can regard the opposing party viewpoint, in what are essentially minor disagreements, as "evil".

    You can blame google for that. From Google Philosophy page on their site: ahref=http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.ht mlrel=url2html-17653http://www.google.com/corporat e/tenthings.html>

    : Number 6 You can make money without doing evil.
    ...Google has also proven that advertising can be effective without being flashy....

    So they are associating not having flashy ads with not being evil. Now that they will have flashy ads that means they are evil. :)

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  4. I don't care by RichPowers · · Score: 1, Informative

    As long as AdBlock shields my eyes from such crap. Honestly, does any out there like video ads? For the past several years, people have been doing everything in their power to skip or fastforward through video ads...

  5. what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Look again, they have had ads forever with search results, top and on the side. Or do you mean you block all of them?

  6. FOSS Solution by Warbringer87 · · Score: 2, Informative

    As with many things, there is a FOSS solution, http://www.mozdex.com/

  7. Re:Not "evil" by LordSnooty · · Score: 2, Informative

    Advertising is the art of convincing people to buy things they didn't know they wanted.