Google and Yahoo Ban Online Casino Ads

[Casinomeister]

Looks like a lot of webmasters will be saving $$$ on purchasing ad space at Yahoo and Google.

I believe Overture is affected as well...

http://www.iht.com/articles/513354.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/05/te...partner=GOOGLE

[jetset]

This could be good news (every cloud etc etc etc) for the top online gambling portals as the casinos and sportsbooks look elsewhere to deploy their marketing budgets - especially sites outside USA that are heavily used by US gamblers.

[Casinomeister]

It's going to hit affiliate sites the hardest -- the ones which have a large budget to purchase pay-per-clicks at Overture and positioning at Yahoo/Google. I'm sure a number of these sites will say the hell with it, many more will direct their efforts to Europe and elsewhere.

Just goes to show how a bunch of dickheads in the US Department of Justice can make these big corps. cower.

But then I would snivel and cower too