Google expands advertising options...
October 4, 2000 4:09 PM Subscribe
Google expands advertising options... and still doesn't appear to have blown their rep.
Re-reading that thread I wonder what you have to give pause to?
From that thread is a link to a Slashdot story:
"After yesterday's story about google favoring Yahoo links, I got word from Sergey Brin from google. He says that the reason that the site tested showed so poorly is that a robots.txt file prevented Google's crawler from fully indexing the site. The robots.txt file has since disappeared, and the next index should show a change in the rankings."
posted by tomalak at 6:00 PM on October 4, 2000
From that thread is a link to a Slashdot story:
"After yesterday's story about google favoring Yahoo links, I got word from Sergey Brin from google. He says that the reason that the site tested showed so poorly is that a robots.txt file prevented Google's crawler from fully indexing the site. The robots.txt file has since disappeared, and the next index should show a change in the rankings."
posted by tomalak at 6:00 PM on October 4, 2000
This also illustrates the ever-weaking ad market — google has very similar ads (blue background, same text limits, but without filtering) between the dmoz listings and the search results for a $60 CPM. These spaces cost $10, $12 and $15.
posted by sylloge at 6:53 PM on October 4, 2000
posted by sylloge at 6:53 PM on October 4, 2000
Works great skallas, now, anyone know where can I get something similar for work (damn proxy......)?
posted by Markb at 1:55 AM on October 5, 2000
posted by Markb at 1:55 AM on October 5, 2000
i say big respect to google for choosing not to clutter their pages with image-based / streaming / flash / realplayer ads
the google ads are inobtrusive, download like a flash, and can be easily ignored if that's your inclination
... unlike advertising on practically any other major search engine
go google!
posted by mschmidt at 2:06 PM on October 5, 2000
the google ads are inobtrusive, download like a flash, and can be easily ignored if that's your inclination
... unlike advertising on practically any other major search engine
go google!
posted by mschmidt at 2:06 PM on October 5, 2000
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You know? It seems a lot like PBS underwriting. Well, like it *used* to be.
They seem, so far, to be being scrupulous about the Chinese wall between advertising and 'editorial', too... though the Yahoo/medical story from a week or so ago still gives me pause.
posted by baylink at 4:12 PM on October 4, 2000