A new deal struck between CBS MarketWatch and Budweiser underscores both the promise and peril of online advertising at a critical time in its history.
Some online publishers are taking pins to pop-up advertisements, but Web surfers won't likely notice a decline in the annoying marketing ploy anytime soon.
Known for hawking pop-up ads that let companies advertise on rival sites, Gator is working a new variation on the theme--selling ads designed to block banners on sites such as Yahoo with pop-ups of the exact same dimensions, completely obscuring the original ad.
The online ad industry has struggled to create ads with emotional hooks, a technique widely used in traditional advertising. Is bandwidth to blame?
Mozilla 1.0, the open-source technology behind the latest Netscape browser, is garnering favour for helping to block irksome pop-up advertisements. But don't expect to see that feature in the coming full release of Netscape 7.0.
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Will aggregation replace search when it comes to finding useful content on the Web? I reckon so.
Nobody, least of all Yahoo and Google, doubted that the two companies' search-advertising deal would escape any antitrust scrutiny.
Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
The footage Four Corners displayed of a suspected Melbourne fraudster's house and technology during a police raid last week hardly fits the profile of a master fraudster.
How feasible is it that you could escape paying hefty licensing fees by using software subsidised by advertisements?
Telstra-owned Sensis Classifieds, owner of the Trading Post, this week sent a threatening letter to rival OZtion over its use of the word "free to list" on its website.
Pop-up advertisements have thrived for years despite numerous efforts to eradicate them, but now online marketers are seriously wondering whether the Web's most detested ad format is about to meet its match: Microsoft.
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said.
A DoubleClick executive landed in hot soup recently after suggesting browser makers should toe the line when it came to online advertising.
Web portal MSN is testing a new search service that touts faster, tidier results, in what is the latest development in a fast-moving contest to help people find what they're looking for online.
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