Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 1st Mar 2007 14:33 UTC, submitted by JCooper
Hoping to get a jump on Google and other competitors, Adobe Systems plans to release a hosted version of its popular Photoshop image-editing application within six months, the company's chief executive said Tuesday. The online service is part of a larger move to introduce ad-supported online services to complement its existing products and broaden the company reach into the consumer market, Adobe CEO Bruce Chizen told CNET News.com.
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2006-02-16
You're absolutely right, I was never a fan on online advertisement thus I never ever feel like doing that as my business, but, just like spammers exist, if tiny amount of people click, then they get money for practically small amount of cost, because inserting couple of stupid text adds does not scale the cost with the amount of pages they dish out.
And places like Google works for selling ranks on the advertisement area of a search result. I rather think those ad(non)sense and adwords are supposed to catch people's mind toward Google, because anyone can get a dozen bucks a month if they do put it on their web site (considering some amount of visitors are there) and people love free money.
But in the core of it, advertisements are targetted for brainless people not for intellectual surfers who only want content they're looking for. In the end, if the core principle looks dumb, it won't last long, but the sheer amount of web pages and users keep it going...
TV ads live, although way too intrusive to stop the TV show, people got used to it for a break and u can just bypass it totally, since the TV show and the ads aren't mixed up. Web is dirty.