tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post111751052683145565..comments2024-01-15T13:17:33.771-08:00Comments on Geeking with Greg: Personalized advertising on FindoryGreg Lindenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1128976974263231652005-10-10T13:42:00.000-07:002005-10-10T13:42:00.000-07:00My understanding of the issue with Bloglines' prop...My understanding of the issue with Bloglines' proposed advertising was that the ads would have been next to the full content of the articles from many weblogsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1117578750412225792005-05-31T15:32:00.000-07:002005-05-31T15:32:00.000-07:00Hi, Newton. We see news sources and weblogs are o...Hi, Newton. We see news sources and weblogs are our customers. We want to make them happy with a steady stream of traffic. We drive traffic to them by matching our interested audiences to their content.<BR/><BR/>I'm not sure why Google News doesn't have ads. I believe Eric Schmidt (CEO, Google) has said that they don't see it as a priority, preferring to spend their time adding new languages, sources, and features.<BR/><BR/>I doubt it is the reason you mention. Similar sites, such as My Yahoo, do have ads on them already. Perhaps a few sites would ask to be removed from Google News if they launched ads, but Google News drives huge amounts of traffic to news sites, and the vast majority of sites seem to want to be included.<BR/><BR/>My understanding of the issue with Bloglines' proposed advertising was that the ads would have been next to the full content of the articles from many weblogs.<BR/><BR/>Findory only shows excerpts. People click through to read the content, sending traffic and revenue to the sources. This seems to work quite well. We've had several bloggers tell us about the substantial increase in readers they saw after being listed on Findory.Greg Lindenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09216403000599463072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6569681.post-1117576509320709092005-05-31T14:55:00.000-07:002005-05-31T14:55:00.000-07:00Google News does not have ads. As I understand it,...Google News does not have ads. As I understand it, and correct me if I'm wrong, this is because the news outlets would bar Google News from using their content if they put ads around it. See also the Bloglines ad brouhaha. How is this different? Do you expect objections from some of your content sources, and how are you going to deal with that?newtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07694602165507350868noreply@blogger.com