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January 27, 2006
That this slipped by: Google AdSense begins rich media beta test.
In other words, "floating ads", interstitials, and expanding ads...oh my!
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Reader Jeremy Writes: [Yahoo] couldn't get off the crack pipe...the Paid Inclusion model. It failed *everywhere*. [It] still can't get off the crack.
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totally unrelated, sorry, but i thought you may find this funny if you haven't seen it:
Under health news, there's a pic of Michelle Malkin next to headline about braindamange teen
"Doctors see hope for Haleigh: Battered child moved to rehab"
http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&topic=m
Michelle Malkin http://mediamatters.org/items/20...ms/ 200408110001
Still there!
What is the story behind the word "interstitial"? Google "define:" only has one entry. Is this an internet word?
I'm in the beta.. Looks like a direct attack on yahoo's branded ad business. Yahoo is creating YPN and google is going after their Fortune 1000 brand advertisers. I can't see this ending good for yahoo.
Well. This is no doubt evil, and very much so. This is distracting people from what they are looking for, this doesn't help to organize the world information. Sounds like some deamon suddenly took over Google couple of mounths ago and sent them into every possible mistake they could make : Video Store, Toolkit, bad PR on books, etc. What has suddenly turn wrong with them?
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