19:23 20.12.2005 | All news from "Hardware"

AOL Coaxes Google to Try Busier Ads

If you were used to Google's spartan and non-intrusive ads, then those days may be long gone.  Google has .  Thanks to JustAnAverageGuy from our forums for letting me know about the news:

The executives close to the talks said that at AOL's request, Google would begin to test various forms of graphical ads, and that it would make the same formats available to other advertisers. Google has started to sell graphical ads for placement on other sites; plans to do so on Google itself were accelerated by the AOL talks, an executive involved in the negotiations said.


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