{"id":486,"date":"2008-04-10T07:18:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T11:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordwebdesign.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/10\/google-adwords-on-yahoo\/"},"modified":"2012-03-04T19:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-04T23:16:29","slug":"google-adwords-on-yahoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/10\/google-adwords-on-yahoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google AdWords on Yahoo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh this is big news, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.mccordweb.com\/2008\/04\/ppc-yahoo-google-test.html\">but big and bad news for advertisers on both Google and Yahoo<\/a>. You&#8217;ll want to read our post on Blog-World Watch to find out why.<\/p>\n<p>This limited time test is an effort to flow cash into Yahoo to stave off the hostile takeover planned by Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>I think that this forges a path for a Yahoo acquisition by Google which would really kick Microsoft in the teeth. 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Read our post to find out more about this very important test and why it is bad for web advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,357],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-adwords","category-news-trends"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Google AdWords on Yahoo? | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2008\/04\/10\/google-adwords-on-yahoo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Google AdWords on Yahoo? | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Oh this is big news, but big and bad news for advertisers on both Google and Yahoo. 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