About the AOL announcement (2005)

Re:About the AOL announcement (2005) by benhoyt on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @08:26AM (#19254054)

To be fair, there aren't "banner ads" on either the Google homepage or the search results pages. Neither are there "crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up". There are definitely ads on the search results pages, and they take too much vertical space IMO, but they're text and small images, not flashing and tacky stuff.

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Re:About the AOL announcement (2005) by gcb0 on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @09:57AM (#19254735)

completely depends on your definition of "crazy". I mean Google used to show ads for a particular drug if you searched for suicide methods that would call for such drug.... that's pretty crazy in my book.

also most of the deal was about video ads. just take a look at YouTube.

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Re:About the AOL announcement (2005) by modzu on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @11:56AM (#19256017)

well yes, the genius is that the ads on the google page are virtually indistinguishable from actual results. is that better or worse?

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