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Microsoft has thrown its challenger to Google's Adsense open to public testing while trying to rally partners. The company's pubCenter has been released to US beta testers following long-running private tests. Senior product marketing manager Kevin McCabe called the beta a "great opportunity" for web site owners to shape an " …

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  1. BlueGreen

    "...we plan to offer an excellent, compelling alternative in this competitive field,"

    which will be in my blocklist so fast you'd think it was a coked-up cheetah with waterskis on a lake of baby oil.

    Ads are gross but sites need to support themselves somehow. We really need a grown-up discussion on a micropayments alternative. It's either adverts, micropayments, or the death of many quality sites on the web. I don't see a fourth option and I truly don't want the third.

  2. kenzie
    Happy

    Sounds good :)

    I don't mind online ads, it beats paying to use websites and in some cases they are useful, especially alongside a search engine. A way to customise those ads makes sense, as they can then be giving us what we want to see. We get what we want, and so do the companies ;)

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