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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 10:58 AM Posted by Josh Cohen, Business Product Manager If you're in the US, starting today you may notice something a bit different when you search Google News. Last November, we announced plans to begin experimenting with ads on a number of Google properties, ...
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Ads Now on Google News Search Results
WebProNews Feed — ... "In recent months we've been experimenting with a variety of different formats, like overlay ads on embedded videos from partners like the AP," says Business Product Manager Josh Cohen on the Google News Blog. "We've always said that we'd unveil these changes when we could offer a good experience for our users, publishers and advertisers alike, and we'll continue to look at ways to deliver ads that are relevant for users and good for publishers, too." ...

Google Deploys Ads In News Results; Shutters "Shared Stuff" Bookmarking Service
paidContent — ... If cost-cutting and boosting revenues are the keys to thriving amid a recession, then Google has proven it's adept at doing both. The latest push to generate more revenue is by running search ads against Google News results, much like it has done with ads in image search, Google Earth and Google Finance (via the Google News Blog). There are still some relevance kinks to work out though; ...

Google Expands Ad Display Property to Google News Search
Search Engine Journal — ... If you’re from the U.S. and you use Google News stream to get your daily news fix. More particularly if you’re using Google News’ search engine, you’ve probably noticed that the Google News search results  now display text ads side-by-side with the search results. This is of course part of Google’s experiment on exploring possible avenues for their clients’ paid ads, or perhaps it’s the companies way of making full use of its online property.  Google has been implementing this ad scheme on its Google Book Search and of course on Google ...

Search Party: Where's Google AdWords Going Now?
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... refinements within Google search," wrote Josh Cohen, a business product manager at Google, in a Wednesday posting to the Google News blog . "Today, we're continuing a similar experience for users by introducing ads on Google News search-results pages in the U.S. What this means is that when you enter a query like iPhone or Kindle into the Google News search box, you'll see text ads alongside your News search results." Cohen said Google would continue to experiment with "a variety of formats" for its AdWords and other advertising pieces, including the use of embedded videos. ...

Search Party: Where's Google AdWords Going Now?
The Channel Wire — ... refinements within Google search," wrote Josh Cohen, a business product manager at Google, in a Wednesday posting to the Google News blog . "Today, we're continuing a similar experience for users by introducing ads on Google News search-results pages in the U.S. What this means is that when you enter a query like iPhone or Kindle into the Google News search box, you'll see text ads alongside your News search results." Cohen said Google would continue to experiment with "a variety of formats" for its AdWords and other advertising pieces, including the use of embedded videos. ...

Google Is Commercializing Google News. Sh*tstorm to Follow?
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... Here's the Google post announcing the move....nothing at all mentioned about sharing revenues with the news orgs who provide Google News its content. I cannot believe that this issue was not proactively dealt with. It must have been. Right? Readers in the news industry, speak up - any insight? ...

Google Adds Ads to News
AppScout — ... No one else seems to know how to make money from the news these days, but the proclaimed downfall of publishing certainly isn't going to stop Google from claiming another revenue stream. The search company announced yesterday that has begun displaying ads on its News search page. ...

Google News, Now With Ads
Mashable! — ... Right now, the ads appear to be text-only, though Google alludes to some other formats in a blog post about the move. The company writes, “in recent months we’ve been experimenting with a variety of different formats, like overlay ads on embedded videos from partners like the AP.” ...

Ads in Google News? Cue Newspaper Industry Outcry in 3 … 2 … 1
Digital Daily — Leave it to Google (GOOG) to find a bit of meat on the revenue-starved bones of the newspaper industry. On Wednesday the company extended its AdWords program to Google News, serving up text ads alongside news searches much the same way it does regular Google searches. Search for news about, say Mesothelioma and you’ll be shown the broad spectrum of ads touting mesothelioma legal services (click on image below). Google announced the move in a post to its official blog: In recent months we’ve been experimenting ...

5Words for February 26th, 2009
Technologizer — ... Good morning–news is served: Lots of Windows 7 tweaks. Nokia might make Symbian laptops. Google Street View’s user photos. Google News gets ads. Finally. Find iPhone vulnerability, get money. The president isn’t Tweeting nowadays. LG phone sports detachable keyboard. Jeepers, more Microsoft-Yahoo speculation. Rumors about PSP successor persist. Is Windows Mobile 6.5 obsolete? Vista SP2 release candidate ...

Google News With Ads
Google Blogoscoped — ... Why does Google roll these ads out now, and why didn’t they have them before? Their blog post on this doesn’t reveal much. Google in regards to their changes, including video ad overlays in Google News, says “We’ve always said that we’d unveil these changes when we could offer a good experience for our users, publishers and advertisers alike”, but they don’t tell what makes these AdWords special, if anything, and AdWords have been around for a long time. One possibility could be that Google was aiming to make their service – which ...

Ads Find Their Way On News.Google.Com
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — ... “We’ve always said that we’d unveil these changes when we could offer a good experience for our users, publishers and advertisers alike, and we’ll continue to look at ways to deliver ads that are relevant for users and good for publishers, too,” stated Josh Cohen on the Google News Blog. ...

Google News search results with Ads
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google implemented ads on Google News search-results pages in the US. Now, when you enter a query like iPhone or ...

Google News to add ads
Betanews — ... | Published February 27, 2009, 5:28 AM On the same day that the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News announced that it was shutting down effective Friday for lack of revenue, Google News confirmed its plan to sell AdWords placement on its Google News searches. The ads, which officially debuted Thursday, work as AdWords usually do, serving up pages related to the search terms (rather than news results from specific publications). Josh Cohen, a business product manager for Google, described the results as "similar to what you see on regular Google searches or Google Book ...

Google News Gets Text Ads
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — ... . It's a significant turning point for Google News, which has been ad-free since its beta launch in April 2002, apart from overlays on videos provided by select news partners. "In recent months we've been experimenting with a variety of different formats, like overlay ads on embedded videos from partners like the AP," explained Google business product manager Josh Cohen in a blog post . "We've always said that we'd unveil these changes when we could offer a good experience for our users, publishers and advertisers alike, and we'll continue to look at ways to deliver ads ...

Google News Gets Text Ads
TechWeb — ... . It's a significant turning point for Google News, which has been ad-free since its beta launch in April 2002, apart from overlays on videos provided by select news partners. "In recent months we've been experimenting with a variety of different formats, like overlay ads on embedded videos from partners like the AP," explained Google business product manager Josh Cohen in a blog post . "We've always said that we'd unveil these changes when we could offer a good experience for our users, publishers and advertisers alike, and we'll continue to look at ways to deliver ads ...

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