Overture and ask jeeves

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[Mike_Mackin]

Under the new implementation, up to five of Overture’s relevant search results will now be available in a more prominent position on the Ask Jeeves results page.  These results will be presented under the heading, “You may find these sponsored links helpful.” 

Article [iredge.com]

[legster]

As an advertiser I think this is great.

As a user, I think this is terrible. I use a 21 inch monitor, and when I searched on Ask Jeeves, my whole screen was filled with the top five listings from Goto. At least on the sites like AoL, they are small links to Goto results. Now it looks like Ask Jeeves is just another portal for Goto. Most users won't know the difference between a sponsored link, or a regular link, they will just click it. Sad state of affairs for the internet I think.