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I think I first heard this circa 2000, infact I think you were in the
lecture Matt ;-)

Alan

On 03/09/07, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:
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> On 3 Sep 2007, at 13:15, Mark Chitty wrote:
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> > Interesting article,
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> > It seems to imply that Ads are almost completelty ignored, although
> > this
> > can't be the case or google would go bust :o) Would be interesting
> > to see
> > what the sample size was.
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> It says that *banner* ads are ignored.  Ie the ads that look like
> ads.  The text-based google ones it says are still looked at.
> Basically it seems people have trained themselves to look for text,
> and ignore anything else.  They know which areas of a page generally
> have banners and ignore them if they see them there.
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> So basically it means instead of paying for ads, you now should do
> other things.... like paying bloggers ;)
>
> -Matt
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