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How lame is that... there you have the greatest publicity all over the web and all over the blogs... and the best possible PR and media advertising for Yahoo and it's api - and trust me yahoo could needs some positive PR these days with the crap you buddy Jerry has been pulling - and right after all the major news outlets wrote about it you take it down.

I wonder why, did marketing give you a call? if so someone should fire those Yahoo marketing dudes... and even if they didnt give you a call, for not giving you a call to leave it up.

Publicity and advertising like this would cost you guys millions... and what do you guys do... shut it down...
I hate to say this but you guys deserve where you guys are in the search war. There you do something right, something brilliant and you shut it down right before you can cash in on millions and millions of free editorial advertising and fun positive PR..

Sorry I am just rather speechless by this ignorance...

Nice post. Much better than tc's thats forsure.

I'm glad to see someone has the smarts to actually mention fill rate. Along with the myth of singe-double digit CPM rates, there is also a myth that sites have a 100% fill rate which is totally untrue.

Of course I understand why Arrington won't mention this on his own site, since it goes against pumping and hyping startups. But he knows its true. He's even said publically that he's unsatisfied with Federated Media due to the fact that they can't fill inventory for his site. Don't really know why he is complaining when he prints money from 125x125 squares.