With Yahoo signing away their advertising business today to Google, I thought it would be interesting to look at the major search engines and see who handles their advertising. Have a look at the list below and check out just how dominant Google is. You wonder why no one is using the other search engines — it’s easy, if the search engine can’t sell ads, perhaps their technology isn’t as good either, right? Please add other engines in the comments and I will add them to the list.
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Yahoo | Yahoo/Google | Google ads to begin in three months. |
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Ask | ||
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Microsoft | Microsoft | |
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YouTube | ||
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AOL | ||
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n/a | Facebook runs their “social ads”. | |
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hakia | Yahoo | Per the conference call today, hakia will now be able to run Google ads as well |
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Mahalo | Mahalo no longer claims to be a search engine | |
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Wikia | n/a | No ads are displayed currently |
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Twerq | n/a | No ads are displayed currently |
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MySpace | ||
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a9 | Amazon | Ads are related items from Amazon.com |
