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*Shrug* Google isn't invincible to the market pressures. They'll cave on things if there's corporate demand. Fuck the consumers, that's the name of the game.

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Original post by ontheheap adblock

Heck yeah! Best Firefox extension ever.

Another reason to hate AOL [sad]. Why would Google want to invest in AOL?

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Original post by nprz Another reason to hate AOL [sad]. Why would Google want to invest in AOL?

They have been influenced by satan.. oh wait... that *IS* AOL

Here's an article about it. According to the article:

"None of the so-called banner ads will appear on Google's home page or alongside its primary search results."

So it doesn't sound like it will be that intrusive. I mean, what's left besides the home page and primary search results? Maybe GMail, but I can handle that.

Anyway, it seems that Google wants to open up AOL's instant messaging market to play nicer with their own.

I don't get why people complain about Internet advertising. If you're using Firefox, install adblock. If you're using Opera, use Filter.ini. Seriously, don't complain if you're too lazy to install a blocker.

If it gets annoying enough, we can go raduprv and organize a boycott. Not of Google, but of their ads. If general purpose adblocker like adblock work so well, it wouldn't be that difficult to write an extension for Firefox (in fact, I'll bet the people who made CustomizeGoogle will do it) that blocks ads for Google.

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Original post by caffeineaddict Here's an article about it. According to the article: "None of the so-called banner ads will appear on Google's home page or alongside its primary search results." So it doesn't sound like it will be that intrusive. I mean, what's left besides the home page and primary search results? Maybe GMail, but I can handle that. Anyway, it seems that Google wants to open up AOL's instant messaging market to play nicer with their own.

They'll sell targetted banner ads on websites. You know, those websites that have google ads on them ?

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If it gets annoying enough, we can go raduprv and organize a boycott. Not of Google, but of their ads. If general purpose adblocker like adblock work so well, it wouldn't be that difficult to write an extension for Firefox (in fact, I'll bet the people who made CustomizeGoogle will do it) that blocks ads for Google.

I'd laugh if they put the ads in www.google.com/wathever/ They could make them quite hard to block by using a periodically changing scheme.

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Original post by Scet I don't get why people complain about Internet advertising. If you're using Firefox, install adblock. If you're using Opera, use Filter.ini. Seriously, don't complain if you're too lazy to install a blocker.

I usually don't want to block ads. Sometimes websites need the money. I'm not convinced that Google does.

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Original post by jfclavette Quote: Original post by caffeineaddict Here's an article about it. According to the article: "None of the so-called banner ads will appear on Google's home page or alongside its primary search results." So it doesn't sound like it will be that intrusive. I mean, what's left besides the home page and primary search results? Maybe GMail, but I can handle that. Anyway, it seems that Google wants to open up AOL's instant messaging market to play nicer with their own. They'll sell targetted banner ads on websites. You know, those websites that have google ads on them ? Quote: If it gets annoying enough, we can go raduprv and organize a boycott. Not of Google, but of their ads. If general purpose adblocker like adblock work so well, it wouldn't be that difficult to write an extension for Firefox (in fact, I'll bet the people who made CustomizeGoogle will do it) that blocks ads for Google. I'd laugh if they put the ads in www.google.com/wathever/ They could make them quite hard to block by using a periodically changing scheme.

Ah, well that I don't have a problem with. I still doubt that even being images they'll be that noticeable compared to those annoying shoot the gopher popups, but we'll see.

Hm... how did it go? CompuServe ate Prodigy... AOL ate CompuServe... and GEnie and Delphi died alone. And now Google is going to eat AOL. The BBS era truly is over. [sad]

I'm quite amazed that Google has not plastered banners ads all over the front page already. The amount of money they would make would be astronomical. Of course, everyone would throw a fit and slam Google for it. The thing is, are you really going to stop using Google if they did? Would you go back to Yahoo or Lycos purely to prove a point?

Google are in an interesting spot right now. Everyone has become so dependent on their service, they could flood the front page with ads if they wanted to, and the amount of users that would stop using Google would be unnoticeable. But how far could Google go before people started using MSN search (or one of the new ‘Google topper’ search engines) instead? How much could Google really get away with?

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Original post by boolean I'm quite amazed that Google has not plastered banners ads all over the front page already. The amount of money they would make would be astronomical. Of course, everyone would throw a fit and slam Google for it. The thing is, are you really going to stop using Google if they did? Would you go back to Yahoo or Lycos purely to prove a point? Google are in an interesting spot right now. Everyone has become so dependent on their service, they could flood the front page with ads if they wanted to, and the amount of users that would stop using Google would be unnoticeable. But how far could Google go before people started using MSN search (or one of the new ‘Google topper’ search engines) instead? How much could Google really get away with?

I started using Google way back years ago when it was no name, back when altavista, yahoo, excite, etc were kings. There were 2 things I liked about Google search:
1. fast search (even showed the search time, pretty cool back then)
2. simple web page (i hate web sites with billion things on them)

If they were to loose the simplicity of it by adding ads, Google just wont be Google to me anymore.

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Original post by KnightBlade If they were to loose the simplicity of it by adding ads, Google just wont be Google to me anymore.

But would you stop using it?

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Original post by jfclavette I'd laugh if they put the ads in www.google.com/wathever/ They could make them quite hard to block by using a periodically changing scheme.

Just test by image size/location then. Hopefully they wouldn't dare use ads that randomly change dimensions and page location from time to time. That'd be irritating for reasons other than blocking them.

You could also just eliminate any images that link to webpages other than Google, though. If they started making actual, relevant search results into images it would kill their bandwidth and their speed for users, so they'd never do that.

Never mind, they'd probably just have them link to something like google.com/outgoing.cgi only replacing "outgoing" with random text. :(

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Original post by boolean But would you stop using it?

Maybe. There are a lot of other good search engines out there. And often they find things that I couldn't find with Google. Google's simplicity and the fact that it doesn't "feel" as capitalist as a lot of other websites are what I find to be some of it's most appealing attributes.

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Original post by boolean But would you stop using it?

I use adblock, so I probably wouldn't notice if they had ads, but if it loses its simplicity feel that it has, I'd consider switching. The only reason I use google is because they don't have crap everywhere. If they change, then I might as well use any other search engine.

Yeah. I gave MSN Search a try a few weeks back. It works. Well. I still use google because I prefer its look, nothing more.