Project Panama - Are you Scandinavian?

If so you can help the rest of us

[inbound]

As you may know, Yahoo Search Marketing has launched their new bidding system in Scandinavia. Having visited the various sites for those countries I've not had any luck finding out exactly how it works (mainly due to not knowing the first thing about nordic languages).

So, if you can understand these sites, please post details of how Yahoo are explaining the system. Better still, some examples of the system in action would be great.

Any snippets of information would be appreciated.

[biking4jesus]

[ecommercetimes.com...]

news on the upcoming launch of adcenter, and how yahoo plans to make new ad services available

[mike_ppc]

Am I missing something, I found nothing about bidding, and absolutely nothing about Scandinavia?
The article is interesting, though.

[Eurydice]

Hey, I speak Scandinavisk. Well, actually, Danish. If someone can provide a link to pages, I can read those and tell you what they say.

I speak Danish and I can also read Norwegian.

Send me links either here or by stickymail.

[martinibuster]

Yahoo officially denied that they're testing it in Scandinavia.

[rustybrick]

martinibuster, more evidence of it happening was just posted at my site - if you find it worthy, link to it. But something was fishy about the way Yahoo denied this report...

[martinibuster]

That's interesting. It's just one person in Boston (not Scandinavia), but entirely plausible.

I'm just speculating here but, what may be happening is YSM may have beta testers with access to the full control panel. But naturally because of non-disclosure agreements, can't talk. So if there are beta testers in the United States, it's possible that someone somewhere might see the algo effect on a certain range of keywords, and that's what that person you cited may be seeing.

It seems that it would be possible to verify an instance of this by comparing the order of the PPC SERPs against the bid prices in the Overture Bid Tool.

[rustybrick]

It seems that it would be possible to verify an instance of this by comparing the order of the PPC SERPs against the bid prices in the Overture Bid Tool.

Go for it. :)

[martinibuster]

Ha!
Let's get Jim B. to build a tool for that, hehe.