http://0blog.com/2005/08/24/google-flip-flops-on-talk/ Toivo Lainevool's Random Thoughts Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:08:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://0blog.com/2005/08/24/google-flip-flops-on-talk/comment-page-1/#comment-613 AdMoolah News and Views » AdSense Starts Rich Media Beta Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:50:38 +0000 http://0blog.com/?p=46#comment-613 [...] I find this very typical of Google. They have a basic philosophy about something – in this case, ads should be unobtrusive – and then they find they can make money from something and the philosophy shifts. In the latest version of the Our Philosophy page Google stated that “Advertising on the site must offer relevant content and not be a distraction.” On the What is Google AdSense page they state “Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant, unobtrusive Google ads”. I think that expanding ads, floating ads and interstitial ads are certainly a distraction and obtrusive. I guess Google will have to change their philosophy again when they roll these changes out on a larger scale. The same thing happened with their philosophy when they launched Google Talk. [...]

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