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Search Engines Get 'Gatored'
News Like previous products from Gator, Search Scout allows advertisers to reach members of the Gator network when they are visiting competitors' sites -- a feature that has already drawn lawsuits in the context of banner and pop-up advertising.
[January 15, 2003, 7:42]
Pop-under Ads May Pop Up In Wallets
News for example, started running pop-under ads last year amid concerns about its weakening online advertising revenue. A Web site operator of an adult site, for example, may have used pop-under advertising prior to 2000, but the technology may not have...
[June 5, 2002, 10:58]
Pop-ups Are Here To Stay
News During the first seven months of this year, pop-up and pop-under ads amounted to just 2 percent of all online advertising impressions, according to a study released Wednesday by Nielsen/NetRatings. Rounding out the top 10 users of pop-up...
[September 5, 2002, 11:16]
Yahoo! Puts Pop-unders To The Test
News is poised to throw its weight behind a new and controversial breed of Net advertising: pop-unders. has yet to fully endorse pop-unders, the experiment could add rocket fuel to a flare-up between Web surfers and unprofitable dot-coms over in-your...
[July 31, 2001, 9:29]
Web Publishers Settle With Gator
News Mid-last year, a US federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered Gator to temporarily stop displaying pop-up advertising over Web publishers' pages without their permission on the grounds that the ads violated their copyrights and stole revenue...
[February 10, 2003, 10:05]
Ads To Pop Up On EBay
News Such sites began adopting the pop-up ads, as well as other, larger ad units as a result of the downturn in online advertising and the criticism of the effectiveness of banners ads. Third-party advertising on eBay contributed 8 percent of the...
[May 13, 2002, 10:38]
Gator Bites Back In Ad Battle
News A software company at the centre of a growing dispute over the use of pop-up ads has sued the Interactive Advertising Bureau to protect its right to sell ads that can cover those on other Web sites. Gator, based in Redwood City, California, filed a...
[August 29, 2001, 9:50]
New AOL 8.0 Smacks Down Pop-ups
News At the event, AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller announced that the company will no longer sell third-party pop-up advertising on its service. The AOL Time Warner division has witnessed its online advertising revenue plummet after many dot-com...
[October 16, 2002, 8:53]
Company Settles 'fake Spyware' Suit
News Secure Computer allegedly used deceptive links on search engine Google's site, as well as in pop-up advertising and in spam email for Spyware Cleaner. Microsoft had also filed suit against Secure Computer because the company in its advertising...
[December 5, 2006, 7:56]
Intermix Cited In Spyware Lawsuit
News The case was filed under New York's General Business Law, which is aimed at preventing companies from creating false advertising and engaging in deceptive business practices. Another program, dubbed "IncrediFind", redirected visitors to certain Web...
[April 29, 2005, 10:55]
What Are Spyware And Adware?
White Papers Adware is typically a program that displays advertising through pop-up or pop-under windows while you are surfing the Web. Although they may sometimes be confused with one another, spyware and adware are different.
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
Pop-Up Sentry Anti-Spyware
Downloads Pop-Up Sentry Anti-Spyware blocks all types of advertising including pop-ups, pop-unders, Flash ads, rich media, fly-in and slide-in ads, spyware ads, and messenger ads. Pop-Up Sentry also blocks sponsored search ads on Google, MSN, and Yahoo and...
[July 20, 2006, 0:46]
Netscape Knocks Out Pop-ups
News Netscape's decision to offer pop-up blocking comes as the advertising unit finds itself under siege by irate Web surfers and Web properties increasingly nervous about the format's use -- particularly AOL.
[December 13, 2002, 11:39]
New IE May Burst Pop-up Bubble
News In the third quarter of this year, its pop-under advertising accounted for 14 percent of the total ads, versus 4 percent from the same period a year before. Fearing that they might lose one of their most effective advertising tools, some publishers...
[November 25, 2003, 14:35]
Top EBay Sellers Offered Banner Ads
News In response, many companies have embraced new advertising formats such as pop-under and super-sized ads. The new ad programme comes as online advertising in general and banner advertising in particular have come under heavy scrutiny.
[September 5, 2001, 11:41]
Adware Under The Microscope
News So they were understandably caught off guard when informed by a reporter that some visitors to Ford.com were greeted with a prominent pop-up ad offering to redirect them to Toyota.com, a practice that seemed clearly at odds with the company's...
[June 28, 2002, 16:08]
Adware Firm Quietly Settles Suits
News Claria's advertising software piggybacks on free downloads such as peer-to-peer application Kazaa, supporting them by delivering targeted ads to users. Once downloaded, Claria's application serves pop-up and pop-under ads to people while they're...
[September 1, 2004, 9:15]
Web Surfers Brace For Pop-up Downloads
News We're working (directly) with publishers buying various pop-up advertising; one of them is the popping up of the (security) prompt. In addition, online advertising network L90 has sold the one-click downloads on various consenting network sites.
[April 8, 2002, 12:28]
Sites Aim To Get Around Ad Blockers
News Numerous Web operators have added fees to services and content that were previously free, while others have opted for more intrusive forms of advertising. For their part, ad-filter makers said they do not believe their products have had a...
[October 11, 2001, 9:05]
Gator Looks For New Image With Name Change
News Gator, the controversial advertising software and e-wallet company, has changed its name to better reflect its business in behavioural marketing. That business is supported through the sale of advertising, which is targeted to specific users by...
[October 30, 2003, 8:25]
