[Foundation-l] LA Times article / Advertising in Wikipedia

[Brian]

AdSense rules...? Google would bend over backwards to display ads on that
page.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:

> Hi Brian,
>
> > I have to be honest about one thing related to this topic. I
> > have always thought it would be harmless to include Google ads
> > on Wikipedia's internal search engine.
>
> As far as I have understood Google Ads, Google only allows them to
> be posted on content pages (where the search engine can determine
> the content, and adjust the ads) and not on search result pages.
>
> This is the technical side of the problem.  Then there is the huge
> political/ideological resistance within the Wikipedia community.
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>