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Yahoo! Adopts Paid Search Listings
News tested the waters of sponsored links by selling placement for select advertisers at the top of commercial category pages. said on Tuesday that it has partnered with for-fee search service Overture to add sponsored links to its directory, in a move...
[November 14, 2001, 15:24]
Google Starts New Chapter With Amazon
News Google plans to provide search services and sponsored links to Amazon.com under a multiyear deal the companies announced on Thursday. Sponsored links from Google are available now on a selection of Amazon pages.
[April 3, 2003, 15:56]
McAfee: Beware Sponsored Search Results
News In the worst cases, users who click on malicious sponsored links risk having their machines compromised by hackers. Sponsored links were found to be particularly dangerous, and were up to four times as likely to be dangerous.
[May 15, 2006, 15:40]
Phishing Shield Makes Money For ISPs
News ISPs can install software developed by Simplicita on their networks to display a Yahoo search page, including sponsored links and ads, to customers who attempt to surf to a known phishing site or mistype a web address, the company announced on...
[March 28, 2007, 9:16]
Google Does Disney Deal
News In addition to Go, Google will begin powering site-specific results and sponsored links in the entertainment giant's Disney.com, Movies.com and FamilyFun.com Web properties in the spring. The search technology company said the deal with Disney will...
[March 10, 2003, 15:23]
Google Accused Of Profiting From Child Porn
News Jeffrey Toback, a Democratic representative in New York's Nassau County Legislature, charged in a complaint filed on Thursday that Google has been taking in billions of pounds by allowing child pornography and "other obscene content" operators to...
[May 8, 2006, 10:45]
Australia Sets Date For Google Keyword Case
News Google is accused of inadequately distinguishing between its sponsored links and the normal "organic" search results its engine produces. Separate allegations of deceptive and misleading advertising were first levelled against Google and Australian...
[November 19, 2007, 11:17]
Google Announces New Ad Programme
News Sponsored links have been a bright spot in an otherwise dismal advertising market. Google rival Overture Services is planning to extend its sponsored-links business, and Yahoo! The Content-Targeted Advertising programme is an extension of the...
[March 5, 2003, 9:12]
EBay And Google Team Up On Text Ads
News As part of the deal, Google will deliver sponsored links to eBay's search results pages only when there are insufficient results from eBay for a particular query. The deal naturally shuts out eBay's US advertising partner, Yahoo, which holds...
[August 29, 2006, 11:50]
Publishers Want Online Ad Guidelines
News Two groups of publishers -- the American Society for Newspaper Editors and the newly-formed Online News Association -- are also calling for guidelines because of what some predict to be a future reader backlash against the integration of...
[February 5, 1999, 15:03]
Google Factors Clicks Into AdWords
News The ads appear as "sponsored listings" alongside traditional search results. The program also syndicates the sponsored listings, along with the nonpaid, algorithmic search results with which they appear, to Google partners including America Online...
[October 9, 2003, 12:40]
Geico Decision Rocks Google
News However, for Web searchers who see Geico's trademark in the text of sponsored links paid for by other companies, Geico had sufficiently established a likelihood of confusion, the written opinion said.
[August 17, 2005, 9:05]
Search Engines Own Up To Paid-for Results
News In an email, MSN product manager Parul Shah said the company has prominently placed links to an explanation of its results that disclose sponsored and non-sponsored results. In contrast, MSN promotes "featured" sites, which include links to...
[August 19, 2002, 13:12]
Yahoo! Goes For Google With Revamp
News will feature more sponsored search listings in the form of text links down the right-hand side of the page, replacing graphical banners or buttons. started to downplay its legacy directory service in favour of Web search results and sponsored...
[April 7, 2003, 7:28]
McAfee: Yahoo Search Most 'risky'
News According to McAfee, overall, on Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com, Google, and AOL, sponsored searches returned more risky results than "organic" searches. Of sponsored searches, 6.9 percent returned risky content, compared with 2.9 percent of organic searches.
[June 5, 2007, 15:11]
EBay Clamps Down On Use Of Its Name
News Auction giant eBay has moved to block Google advertisers from using its trademark in sponsored search results that appear on Google and across the Web. Google, which declined to comment for this story, lets advertisers bid for placement in...
[August 11, 2003, 11:55]
The Magic That Makes Google Tick
Talkback From £8/day Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Hello my dear Googlers My comment has nothing to do with google suggest, I find it very useful. Now what really squeezes the sh.out of me is ONE THING and this is it:
[December 13, 2004, 17:04]
Google Removes Malicious Advertising Links
News The links were displayed as "sponsored links" after visitors entered specific queries into Google's search service. Google has removed paid links that advertised seemingly legitimate websites but actually tried to install nefarious programs on PCs.
[April 30, 2007, 9:21]
Experts Exchange And Paid Subscriptions
Blog Comment The sponsored links come straight from Google and I haven't seen the undesirable ones you mentioned but I believe we can add a block to those - I'll check and see what we can do. You've brought up two interetsing issues there.
[March 7, 2007, 17:07]
Google: You Have To Pay To Play
News Google on Wednesday said it has begun auctioning ad-sponsored links on its search results pages, firing another shot across the bow of paid-search leader Overture Services. The company claims the search sites are breaking the law by listing links...
[February 21, 2002, 11:48]
