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Yahoo Launches Adsense Competitor.

         

markus007

9:31 pm on Feb 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Looks like yahoo now has the technology in place to challenge adsense. I wonder how long it will take to get out of beta test and how long it will take before they actually pay you for displaying their "contextual ads"

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I wonder when we will see something from microsoft?

bnhall

9:44 pm on Feb 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Interesting....except you don't get paid?

jstar

10:39 pm on Feb 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Not really a competitor yet. But could be someday. Competition can only be good for us publishers, at least in the short term. :-)

Iguana

10:50 pm on Feb 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Ugh

the results will be overlaid directly onto your pages.

overlaying Yahoo search results in a window(div) in front of your page! The Geocities divs are bad enough but this would be terrible - and they are only related searches, no hint of contextual adverts that might actually pay us.

markus007

11:42 pm on Feb 6, 2005 (gmt 0)

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at any rate its a demonstration that they have the technology in place to crawl your page, detect what its about, and display related ads. That is over 95% of the dificultly of creating a adsense like program.

growingdigital

4:01 am on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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It looks like they still have a long way to go before they catch up to Google, but when they do I will roll out the red carpet. I'm tired of Google's AdSense.

trader

5:34 am on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Amazing how complex Yahoo makes the process with lots of code needed vs. how simple and easy G does it.

Also have to wonder why anyone would go thru the trouble of offering it and get no $ from Y when they can get paid by G?

I don't think G has much to be worried about.

martinibuster

5:58 am on Feb 7, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Can't this be used to highlight specific words that when clicked will show a results set featuring sections of your website with high paying adsense ads?

There are probably more ways to wring a dollar with this stuff. hehe

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