[Foundation-l] Advertisement and service at the same time

[White Cat]

I still don't like it. And how are these examples a service? - White Cat

On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 6:31 PM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 22/03/2008, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> > White Cat wrote:
>
> >  >  Joke aside, what kind of an advertisement
> >  > would we put on an article on the second world war or a pharaoh from
> ancient
> >  > Egypt.
>
> > Just for discussion purposes, the two ads I see on google right now for
> >  "World War II" are for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and
> >  for World War II History magazine.
>
>
> A more apposite example might be answers.com, which uses the Wikipedia
> text:
>
> * a picture ad for "Free Lotto!" where "Everyone WINS!!"
> * a picture ad for a mobile phone plan
> * a picture ad for "£500/month off your mortgage" from a builder
> * a banner ad for a historical castle at the bottom of the (very long)
> page.
>
> None particularly relevant to the text, only the first struck me as
> particularly annoying and distasteful.
>
>
> - d.
>
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