Comments on: Google to give AOL ads special placement http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/18/google-to-give-aol-ads-special-placement/ The leading source of news covering social media and the blogosphere. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:27:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Toivo Lainevool http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/18/google-to-give-aol-ads-special-placement/comment-page-1/#comment-76609 Toivo Lainevool Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:17:37 +0000 http://www.blogherald.com/2005/12/18/google-to-give-aol-ads-special-placement/#comment-76609 Its not as bad as that. If you read the update to the story at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/technology/17aol.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1134840629-zxGButg+araqr4idxCXF6A It says: "If a user searches on Google for a topic for which AOL has content - like information about Madonna - there will be a special section on the bottom right corner of the search results page with links to AOL.com. Technically, AOL will pay for those links, which will be identified as advertising, but Google will give AOL credits to pay for them as part of the deal. They will also carry AOL's logo, the first time Google has agreed to place graphic ads on its search result pages." So publishers don't have to worry about special treatment AOL ads showing up on their websites. Its not as bad as that. If you read the update to the story at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/17/technology/17aol.html?th=&adxnnl=1&emc=th&adxnnlx=1134840629-zxGButg+araqr4idxCXF6A

It says:

“If a user searches on Google for a topic for which AOL has content – like information about Madonna – there will be a special section on the bottom right corner of the search results page with links to AOL.com. Technically, AOL will pay for those links, which will be identified as advertising, but Google will give AOL credits to pay for them as part of the deal. They will also carry AOL’s logo, the first time Google has agreed to place graphic ads on its search result pages.”

So publishers don’t have to worry about special treatment AOL ads showing up on their websites.

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