Yahoo to Launch Blog Ad Network 115
Art Vanderlay writes "Yahoo is launching the much anticipated ad network for small Web publishers today, intended to strengthen its hand against rival Google, a source familiar with the plan told CNET.
The service will undoubtedly turn up the heat in Yahoo and Google's ongoing rivalry to dominate Web advertising. Syndicated search revenue for Google was $630 million, of Google's $1.38 billion in revenue in the second quarter of 2005."
Microsoft won't be too far behind ... (Score:4, Interesting)
Google Owns Patent for This? (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Guess I'll be signing up (Score:4, Interesting)
Why not both? (Score:3, Interesting)
Now the real test i their content matching (Score:4, Interesting)
Yahoo's beta of this showed that their way of doing this is lacking, hopefully they improved it.
Re:Formula for success (Score:4, Interesting)
As much fun as it is to piss on yahoo as the "old and busted" and google as the "new hotness"... Yahoo has made some interesting forward thinking purchases lately... like flickr and Konfabulator
*shrug* YMMV, and I'm no yahoo apologist/fan boy... just saying not all that glitters is google.
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www.fuckedgoogle.com reported it first (Score:1, Interesting)
Google's earnings are over-estimated now, and Yahoo's are underestimated.
Well.. (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Microsoft won't be too far behind ... (Score:3, Interesting)
So, when MS does it, it's stealing. But when Yahoo does it (following Google), it's innovation? Or, when Google did it after Overture and Go2 and everyone else that had been in the game for years... what, they were just de-Eviling it? And, Google maps... was not one bit of it, conceptually or otherwise, derivative in any way from earlier offerings from MapQuest, and Yahoo?
I guarantee that Yahoo won't be advertising this new service as being "just like Google did it!" even though they're obviously going after similar niches, using something that will manifest itself in a similar way. Of course, this is slashdot, so everything's fine unless MS happens to also do it.
Re:Why not both? (Score:4, Interesting)
But maybe that's just me. Then entire AdSense BS stinks of evil already.
Perfect timing. Google Adsense can screw you over. (Score:3, Interesting)
Sure enough, my clickthroughs jumped considerably. So much so, in fact, that I earned another $100 in about a week. This morning I got an email from Google stating that they'd disabled my account due to "Invalid clicks". I had not violated any of the terms: I hadn't clicked my own ads, I hadn't used bots, I hadn't offered incentives to anyone else to click them. All I'd done is follow their own optimisation tips.
I sent an email saying this and got another automated response, stating that their "proprietary algorithm" mean that they couldn't elaborate as to what these invalid clicks were, but they were nevertheless disabling my account and witholding all payment.
I spoke to a few of the users of my site, who said that yes, many of them had been clicking ads more. Some said that they'd gone on to buy things through these clicks. None had used bots or anything: they'd just clicked on the ads as any user might, because they were more noticable now and many of the targetted ads were amusing or interesting.
My reply to their second canned email has gone unanswered, and I'm left down the $200-$250 that was remaining in my account, and it seems I have been hosting Google's ads for over a year for free. It seems that I'm far from the only person to experience this arbitrary account cancellation:
Take them to small claims court (Score:1, Interesting)