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Wordpress to Take on Google

by pacelattin
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WordPress.com recently announced the launch of WordAds, a display ads initiative that will cut bloggers in on a percentage of revenue. The program is similar in many ways to the highly successful Adsense program from Google.
WordPress advertising executive Jon Burke explained that WordAds is specifically designed to offer bloggers an alternative to Adsense, stating, "We've resisted advertising so far because most of it we had seen wasn't terribly tasteful, and it seemed like Google's Adsense was the state-of-the-art, which was sad. You pour a lot of time and effort into your blog and you deserve better."

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  • Profile picture of the author CyberAlien
    I'm interested to see if Google tries to say that WordAds was stolen from Adwords and whether or not they will try to prove that it will cause confusion to their customers.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dan Bainbridge
    Sounds fantastic, and ill be actively looking into this in terms of wanting to spend money on advertising with them, any alternative / competition to Google is a good thing I think really.
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  • Profile picture of the author pacelattin
    Federated is a good company, known the guys over there... big network, have a lot of advertisers. Could be good for bloggers. I know i hate Adwords on my blogs now.
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