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One more for hosts

Andy points out signs of Yahoo’s answer to AdSense. I found the “contextual” ads on this post awful, two for Players cigarettes and one for Players underwear, but with ypn-js.overture.com in my hosts file they look just as good as AdSense: invisible.

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Comment by Bart #
2005-03-14 03:32:58

Currently, all 3 ads are for scissors, based on the mention of the ”Rock Paper Scissors” game. It’s quite a difference from ”Players”, but I’m not convinced it’s actually an improvement.

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2005-03-01 01:25:22

Yahoo! Testing Out its Own Contextual Ads Program?

According to Andy Baio, Yahoo appears to be testing out a contextual ad program for small websites, like Google’s AdSense:

Ken Rudman is a product manager at Yahoo-owned Overture, and his blog features contextual Overture ads throughout. His

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