Comments on: More on Google Ads in RSS Feeds

By: ReveNews: Jim Kukral

ReveNews: Jim Kukral — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 03:34:12 +0000

Google’s Latest: Ads Inside of Ads

A source I have inside Google headquarters has leaked some astounding new information about Google’s aggresive plan regarding ads. As we all know, Google has recently announced plans to offer CPM ads, and most recently the ability to put ads directly …

By: Darren Collins

Darren Collins — Wed, 27 Apr 2005 01:24:20 +0000

Ads don’t invade your privacy, they’re just a minor inconvenience. Most people accept ads as the price of free content. We’re all used to ads in free-to-air TV and radio broadcasts, and in paid-for newspapers and magazines. Why would the web be any different? It’s just another information/entertainment medium.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 22:55:51 +0000

I also wouldn’t mind the ability to recoup my RSS bandwidth costs. I can put ads on my site, but if most of my bandwidth goes towards RSS feeds, & most of my readers just read my feeds w/o coming to my site, I might have a hard time keeping a popular site afloat. If I had a popular site, that is. :)

By: Chris Abraham

Chris Abraham — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 21:23:29 +0000

You are right, but I think it is more important to offer good bloggers a way to keep their heads above water since the price of success is a much more expensive server solution and bandwidth overruns — so with ads at least covering expenses, you will see good blogger more able to blog full time.

By: dannyFoo

dannyFoo — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 16:17:08 +0000

I might be naive here but I somewhat have this feeling that at the rate Google is coming up of ways to put up ads almost anywhere. Ads are kinda invading every privacy of a user online. It might not be that obvious such as popups but I guess you can sense its subtle insertions.

Or might just me.. *shrug*