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On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 05:28:39PM +0100, Alan Parry wrote:
> I think I first heard this circa 2000, infact I think you were in the
> lecture Matt ;-)

Which probably goes to show that there's folks on this list who were
they to blog as much as someone like Jakob could be blogging it all a
few years in advance. Maybe the general populace needs to wait a few
years before hearing this sort of thing from someone like this, or
Charlie or someone infamous!

So, who's doing the next geeky skillswap then ?

        Steve

> 
> Alan
> 
> On 03/09/07, Matt Hamilton <matth at netsight.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 3 Sep 2007, at 13:15, Mark Chitty wrote:
> >
> > > Interesting article,
> > >
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > So basically it means instead of paying for ads, you now should do
> > other things.... like paying bloggers ;)
> >
> > -Matt
> >
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