{"id":490,"date":"2006-08-07T18:03:48","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T00:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=490"},"modified":"2006-08-07T18:03:48","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T00:03:48","slug":"myspace_friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=490","title":{"rendered":"MySpace friends Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlebusiness.aspx?type=ousiv&#038;storyID=2006-08-08T010414Z_01_N07394927_RTRIDST_0_BUSINESSPRO-MEDIA-NEWSCORP-GOOGLE-VIDEO-DC.XML&#038;from=business\">ponied up<\/a> nearly a billion smackeroos to be MySpace&#8217;s search and advertising partner, leaving MySpace&#8217;s former ad partner, Yahoo, in the lurch. One wonders if Google will refuse to run ads near MySpace&#8217;s naughty bits, as is its <a href=\"http:\/\/villagevoice.com\/news\/0632,thompson,74074,2.html\">practice<\/a> for other AdSense partners, or whether MySpace is a &#8220;friend with privileges.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Eric Schmidt <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/08\/technology\/08google.html\">answers<\/a> my question: &#8220;\u201cWe are not going to cover MySpace with ads.&#8221; I think that means that the naughty bits will remain uncovered. Which is a good thing, on many levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has ponied up nearly a billion smackeroos to be MySpace&#8217;s search and advertising partner, leaving MySpace&#8217;s former ad partner, Yahoo, in the lurch. One wonders if Google will refuse to run ads near MySpace&#8217;s naughty bits, as is its practice for other AdSense partners, or whether MySpace is a &#8220;friend with privileges.&#8221; UPDATE: Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}