{"id":8924,"date":"2006-03-22T22:53:46","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T05:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/03\/22\/sold-in-the-usa.html"},"modified":"2006-03-22T22:53:46","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T05:53:46","slug":"sold_in_the_usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/22\/sold_in_the_usa.html","title":{"rendered":"Sold in the USA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why would you set up an Internet advertising network, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/03\/22\/yahoo_if_you_use_our.html\" target=\"_blank\">require it to be somehow limited to just one country<\/a>?  Especially if you&#8217;re a large Internet firm that supposedly understands how all this &#8220;Net&#8221; thing works?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I joined the Yahoo Publisher Network, a beta program through which Yahoo provides text ads in much the same way that Google does. 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And why would anyone join an ad network of that sort?<\/p>\n<p>Bizarre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why would you set up an Internet advertising network, then require it to be somehow limited to just one country? 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