AdWords
Online Advertising
AdWords
A Google promotional graphic, highlighting AdWordsAdWords is
Google's
branded text-based
pay-per-click (PPC) advertising service.
What is AdWords?
Google's advertisements are short, consisting of one title line and two
content text lines. Advertisers specify the words that should trigger their ads
and the maximum amount they are willing to pay per click. When a user searches
Google's search engine on www.google.com, ads for relevant words are shown as
"sponsored link" on the right side of the screen, and sometimes above the main
search results. The ordering of the paid listings depends on other advertisers'
bids (thus the system is classified as
P4P) and the
historical click-through rates of all ads shown for a given search.
All AdWords ads are eligible to be shown on www.google.com. Advertisers also
have the option of enabling their ads to show on Google's partner networks. The
"search network" includes AOL search, Ask.com, and Netscape.
Like www.google.com, these search engines show AdWords ads in response to user
searches.
The "content network" shows AdWords ads on sites that are not search engines.
Google automatically determines the subject of the pages and displays ads for
which the advertiser has specified an interest in that subject. The ads show in
boxes resembling banner ads, with the designation "Ads By Gooooooooooogle."
These content network sites are those that use
AdSense, the
other side of the Google advertising model.
AdWords is used by publishers who wish to bring traffic to their websites.
The biggest competitors are
Yahoo! Search Marketing (formerly Overture) and MSN's soon-to-be-launched
adCenter.
Most of Google's revenue comes from AdWords.
Legal context
The service has generated lawsuits in the area of
trademark law and
click
fraud.
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Interacting with Adwords
The ads are displayed on the right hand side of the natural search results.
The ads are pure text, and thus difficult to block. However, on external sites,
they are hosted within an IFRAME (an HTML
element), making them easy to remove with
advertisement blockers.
Technology
The AdWords system was initially implemented on top of the MySQL database
engine. After the system had been launched, management decided to use a
commercial database (Oracle) instead. As is typical of applications simultaneously written and tuned for one
database, and ported to another, the system became much slower, so eventually it
was returned to MySQL ([2])
External links
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