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Google is now desperate for money
Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Take a look at the Google Finance, it was used to be ads free, but since last night, a big square box is occupied at the critical part of its webpage. Frankly speaking, with the ads, it makes the page looks ugly. And people already used to see the chart at that position, now the chart is move to the side, and the space is used for advertisement. Personally, I don't think this is a good move, as really irritating.

This is a snapshot of the original site (I get it by Canada Google Finance, which is still using the original layout).

This is the new layout with ads on the upper right corner.
If you look at individual stock. Below is the original screen:
Now, an ads block is above the discoussions:
There is no doubt that Google changes our life. GMail gives us 7000MB of free space, Google becomes most people primary source of search engine. Google finance combine the dow, nasdaq, and s&p so well that we can see their correlation clearly (this is somethign that Yahoo Finance should learn). The interactive chart and the way to adjusting timeline also pretty impressive.

To Google, maybe should design the ads, so that they look nicer ok? And I think I won't like to have my company information appears in the ads box when the stock are in red, so the ads display should be a function of the stock index. Then you can charge a higher price when Dow is up by 2%, as people feel good, and the ads will have a higher impact!


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Adsense by Baidu
Sunday, November 16, 2008

With the successful of Adsense from Google, with the growing population of China netizens, and with a better understanding in Chinese, finally Baidu has its own advertisement network: 百度主题推广. To me, the major difference with Google Adsense is that, it display a nicer Chinese character than Google Adsense. Not sure if you see any Google Ads in Chinese, the characters are ugly, all mess up together, making it hard to read.

Basically it is exactly the same idea as Adsense from Google, it displays advertisement according to the content of your page. However, one thing extra is that, it allows you add the advertisements to your software as well. I don't think such option is available by Google Adsense. Lets take a look at the screen shot below:

Not too sure if it allows people outside of China to participate. And they may requires your webpage to be fully in Chinese. But I have no doubt it will be a sucessful one and we may add Baidu Adsense to our blog one day.


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