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Pop-ups add new twist
News Worried about losing consumer loyalty, Internet service providers America Online, EarthLink and MSN recently have moved to snip the use of pop-ups served to visitors. Since (Orbitz) is already known for intrusive and frequent pop-ups, this only...
[December 23, 2002, 7:40]
Pop-ups: Unpopular, but effective
News Yet pop-ups had click-through rates almost twice as high as those of banner ads, meaning they're probably going to stick around for a while. And companies are looking for ways to make pop-ups perform better.
[January 15, 2003, 10:58]
Pop-ups are here to stay
News With the effectiveness of the once-standard banner ad being questioned, advertisers have been experimenting with increasingly eye-catching online ads, among them pop-ups. Once known only on fringe and porn sites, pop-ups -- unsolicited Web...
[September 5, 2002, 11:16]
Pop-ups bounce back
Talkback If you have a lot of pop-ups, try this cure: Mozilla's Firefox.
[June 7, 2004, 13:19]
Pop-ups bounce back
News Publishers willingly allow pop-ups or pop-unders because they command higher prices, and they're in high demand by advertisers. For example, some advertisers are sending pop-ups through a "user initiated command" triggered when people mouse over an...
[June 7, 2004, 11:30]
Pop-ups pushed down at Ask Jeeves
News The "real nail in the coffin" for pop-ups on Ask Jeeves is that they're not often related to what people are searching for, he said. This will pretty much be the death of pop-ups. Pop-ups are either over or under what you're looking for," Ask...
[October 21, 2002, 8:51]
Publishers pull pop-ups
News We know they don't like pop-ups," said York Baur, executive vice president of InfoSpace's Wireline division. Women's network iVillage this week said it would pull pop-ups from its site; America Online recently turned down the volume of pop-ups...
[August 2, 2002, 12:20]
AOL to kill pop-ups
News In October, the company promised members that it would stop delivering pop-ups and pop-unders from third-party advertisers from its service. The tool blocks most pop-ups, except for those that people have requested or ones coming from secure sites...
[March 12, 2003, 8:02]
New AOL 8.0 smacks down pop-ups
News In a press conference after the event, Miller said discontinuing pop-ups would cause a $30m (£19m) shortfall in 2003 earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) for AOL. AOL will not deliver any (third-party) pop-ups...
[October 16, 2002, 8:53]
Internet Explorer to shut down pop-ups
Talkback So non-XP users will just have to wait for IE 6.0 with SP3 to stop the plague of pop-ups? Or what?
[November 11, 2003, 12:24]
Mozilla blocks pop-ups, but Netscape won't
News Further illustrating the conflict, AOL, a veritable poster child for pop-ups, cut back nearly 90 percent on such promotions in recent months to avoid turning off subscribers. As the online advertising market deflated in recent years, Web operators...
[August 14, 2002, 15:33]
Stealth pop-ups barred
News The issue led Microsoft and others to take steps to prevent the Messenger feature from being used to send pop-ups. But Web surfers also consider pop-ups among the most annoying online marketing techniques.
[August 10, 2004, 9:50]
Master AJAX Pop-Ups Using the HoverMenuExtender Control
White Papers This paper shows how a person can create pop-ups in the ASP.NET application using the ASP.NET AJAX framework and the ASP.NET AJAX Control toolkit (nee Atlas). This paper explains how to use the HoverMenuExtender control to make good use of pop-ups...
[July 2, 2007, 1:00]
Consumers: Stop the pop-ups!
News The popularity of such programs could be linked to the rise of pop-ups on prominent sites. According to search site Top9.com, AOL.com is ranked No.for using pop-ups, followed by Netscape.com, Real.com, Jobsonline.com, Msnbc.com, CNN.com and Time...
[February 6, 2001, 15:13]
Internet Explorer to shut down pop-ups
Talkback At least with pop-ups you can put them to the back, these things just sit there until you can "find" the close option and then it is tiny meaning you hit the add more often than not. Lets hope it stops these annoying roll over ads and expanding ads.
[December 17, 2003, 14:13]
Internet Explorer to shut down pop-ups
Talkback Safari (on the mac) already blocks pop ups, as do many other browsers. What makes Microsoft so special? Why don't you give other companies credit for tackling this problem? Microsoft is just playing catch up.
[November 12, 2003, 9:06]
Internet Explorer to shut down pop-ups
News By adding pop-up blocking tools to IE, Microsoft will belatedly join a host of other Web browser makers that let people avoid flashy pop-ups, or advertising windows that appear over or behind requested Web pages.
[November 11, 2003, 9:15]
Internet Explorer to shut down pop-ups
Talkback It will be virtually impossible to beat google toolbar funcionality when blocking pop-ups. pfff, as always, micro$oft is AGES behind the other companies. God Is Powered By Google (R)*
[November 12, 2003, 9:28]
Internet Explorer to shut down pop-ups
Talkback stop the pop-ups! Even if I was interested in whatever these damn pop-ups were advertising, I wouldn't buy it because I HATE them so much! PLEASE! PLEASE! I get so frustrated when I'm surfing, or trying to send e-mail and these stupid things...
[March 26, 2004, 14:33]
