By Danny Sullivan , December 6, 1999
From The Search Engine Report
Dec. 6, 1999
And so finally it's come -- advertising on Google. They promised something other than banners when the site came out of beta, and Google delivers on that promise. Ads are simply a big text link, within a blue box at the top of the search results page. I find them oddly refreshing -- maybe I'll even click on one :) Try a search for "shopping," if you haven't seen one yet.
Meanwhile, Google has cut a new deal to power searches at Virgin Net, an entertainment and leisure portal for the UK. As part of its Virgin Net service, Google has added a special index of 5 million UK web pages to its regular listings.
Google
http://www.google.com/
Virgin Net
http://www.virgin.net/
Try Google in the UK by using the "Internet Search" option to the right of the home page.