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- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Shouldn't you be in school or something?
- bram, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Leave it to those crazy Google guys to mess with the model that has been in place for 200 years!
- UtopianComplex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I think this is an amazing revolution in advertising. I hope it expands to small and even independent publications as well, and hopefully allows anyone to buy the ads. It seems like it could be a system that heavily benefits smaller independent and more local publications and newspapers.
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Multi-Billion Dollar Crazy.
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Anytime anyone mentions dupe, I'm blocking them. Hope some others follow suit.
Also, how will Adsense work on this? I mean.. won't it basically be like every other ad out there?
I'd rather see their TV ad's come into play. Ones that are based on the show you're watching. Who the hell wants to see My Little Pony ad's while watching House? - pgtourdotnet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I had to re-read that several times to try and decipher it. I've failed miserably.
- hotpepper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5How about Google Calendar offline?
- dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@carguy
well, i don't know if you noticed, but there's a very different market that reads newspapers. sure, they might not know a lot about the internet - but rest assured, they have dollars to spend.
imho, anyway. - se7en11, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"It might start changing the way we do certain things,"
Maybe it's just me, but this seems a little ambitious. - carguy84, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It might be a model that's been around for 200 years, but I can't believe the average or even above average adwords buyer wants to shell out thousands of dollars for a 1 time run in a newspaper that is likely to be ignored by all its readers. Newspaper advertising is NOT where it's at when you do a cost per conversion with online marketing. Newspaper advertising is for brand recognition only and those companies don't need google's service to buy ad space.
my 2 cents - conwayblue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Once I start seeing contextual based advertising in video then I'll believe "the whole world is changing right now". I mean c.mon...print ads. Not amazing, just a next logical step.
- altcountryman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Only there's something of value in the stage coach that the robbers are getting. And they have guns. And they're on horses. And stage coaches, as well as those who wish to rob them, get outside once in a while.
- hypoxide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1More like pretentious.
- ksturgeon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I remember they tried to do something like this for magazine ads about a year ago and it failed miserably; one software company included a keyword coupon in an ad they placed using google in a magazine, but only had a few dozen people actually key it in.
Add me to the group of folks wondering how well this will work. Newspapers employ large ad sales forces now to shop their ads to small/medium-sized business customers. Those types of businesses are the lifeblood of newspaper advertising for smaller newspapers, and also perhaps the least likely to check out google when they want to place an ad. google has their work cut out for them. - hutectro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2This is nothing new ---article stealing.
when you post a article first and norther person wants it they simply take it
and then they get their Friends to help them promote it to front page.
It's like the old west ----robbing the stage coach.
It's happened to me three times. - malkir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I'm surprised at this honestly. Print newspapers are slowly but surely dying off, so I'm not really sure this is a very good move.
- deanypop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I think one thing that's gone unmentioned (so far) is that newspapers are geographically-oriented entities. Even the nationals run local ads, having multiple editions, etc. Add Google's 'relevance/popularity' scheme on top of that, and potentially you have these ads in your local paper, that are for things you might actually want, in your general vicinity.
One of the biggest problems with the google ads I see is that they ARE mostly from smaller/niche businesses, and it's hard to trust those guys right off the bat if they have no reputation, and* they're in some Floridian backwater. UPS is UPS, but if I can get ads aimed even remotely in my direction that also come from my neighborhood, sign me up!
The obvious question is, are they intentionally trying to "doom" this effort by allowing the newspapers to set minimum price? Or is it just a way to dig feelers into the print ad folks, so that when all the papers go belly-up, Google instantly knows who to hire away for "GoogleLocalNewsPaper beta"? - hypoxide, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Digg this post down. Thanks.
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Its not Revolutionary. Newspapers have always done this.
- loof, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2The other post was done 10 mins after this one and links to a blog rather than a story.
Eh? I'll just mark them both as dupes and call it a day. - hutectro, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1 Massive Fire Damages Gatorland
A massive fire tore through one of Central Florida's oldest attractions, Gatorland, killing up to four animals, according to a Local 6 News report.
Flames were reported at the Gatorland attraction located at 14501 South Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando on Monday at about 6:15 a.m.
link-------http://www.local6.com/news/10248992/detail.html - crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3@MikeOSX
Or give him attention by replying. Just press the Thumbs down and be done with it. - Crass22, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2also polend.
- freebird4, on 10/12/2007, -18/+1I like how the poster went into your submission and posted the same thing despite your story indeed being first.
Now to bury you down. - MikeOSX, on 10/12/2007, -20/+3How do you keep an idiot busy? Click link dupe link above!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -29/+0I dunno but your mom saw Your Little Pony while playing Big Moma's House.
By House I mean vagina.
Ok sorry that wasn't funny :( - freakitude, on 10/12/2007, -40/+2Duplicate Story - Already posted http://digg.com/tech_news/Look_Ma_Ads_By_Google_in_our_Newspaper
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