January 4, 2006

Ads Reach Google’s Front Page


eWEEK reports, advertisements now appear on the home page of a Google Inc. Internet search engine, thus ending the company’s nearly decade-long tradition of an ad-free front page.
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They are not flashy, “graphical doodads and popping up all over,” as Google promised in late December.

Rather, Google’s Web site in Belarusian, has the more sedate approach of three sponsored links taking up an inch-wide column of the right-hand side of the Web browser.

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