Yahoo Launches Adsense Competitor.

[markus007]

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]

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

[jstar]

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

[Iguana]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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

YQ was on the Front Page of WebmasterWorld three days ago.
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