From Yahoo today

[MWS_Brian]

<DIV>Due to the following article that hit the papers yesterday, Yahoo will be suspending all online pharmacy advertisements this week. You will receive a refund for anything that you have paid but has not run.</DIV>
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<DIV class=timedate>Tue Oct 21, 8:30 AM ET</DIV></TD>
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By Gilbert M. Gaul and Mary Pat Flaherty, Washington Post Staff Writers (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/washpost/ts_washpost/byline/SIG=kfsojr/*http://www.washingtonpost.com)


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[iggy]

Wow!

Overture is part of Yahoo! - wonder if they will pull the plug too. I have a feeling google will be making some adjustments soon. At least making the ads read differently

[smokey]

This guy Cantu is an addict do to his own fault. There are addicts in all walks of life this just happens to be a doctor. How can they hold a whole business sector responsible for one actions.

[MWS_Brian]

Hmmmm, so Yahoo who just runsa search engine is worrried about liabilty.

[RxSponsor.com]

Wait a minute, Yahoo is still advertsing Drugs.


Where did you see Yahoo is stopping this?

[phalaris]

I wonder for how long the google adwords will last. Google already doesn't have OP ads on google.co.uk. I think revenues from OP sites are significant chunk of money even for google or yahoo but they are willing to let go of it, means they think risk-reward ratio is against them.

[King_Phen]

Where does it state the Y! is suspending OP ads?

[MarketingMaster]

MWS Brian-


What is your take on this? If search engines don't allow us to advertise your products online, how do we get our name out there? Traditional ads/offline only?


This can't be happening....

[MarketingMaster]

I just searched for "ambien" and all ads appear to be running smoothly.

[RX69]

Type in any drug name in yahoo and tons of adds. Not sure what you are talking about Brian?smileys/smiley8.gif

[smokey]

I think he said they are going to.

[redex]

You don't "threaten" something like that. Either you pull them or you don't . . . a few days later is not what it is about. Nowhere in hell does it say anything about Yahoo pulling OP ads.

[iggy]

Yah Brian, wanna come clean?

[Pharmacy316]

Can you guys take lunch and leave mws alone for an hour or so is looking for the information that difficult to find on your own.

[MWS_Brian]

Hey guys, I got this from my rep. They said by weeks end. What I posted was from the email, with out her sig of course. All else is EXACT. I heard by Friday. Justaheads up.


It did say by weeks end and I would get my money back.

[redex]

f**k!

[Star]

Brian's right. I just got an email from my rep also.

[scottdaman]

And to think, we probably will see a years worth of bad news from this month on. This is just the beginning. smileys/smiley11.gif

[Shark Attack]

Not sure I can take any more of this !

[redex]

Relax, Shark Attack, it's just a bump in the road. Once the DEA weeds out the phent and ambien, things will return to normal. (sans phent and ambien :) )

[iggy]

&lt;Once the DEA weeds out the phent and ambien&gt;

In regards t this thread, Yahoo! is not allowing Viagra ads either.

[redex]

Yahoo sucks for traffic anyways. The only people that use it are the me@yahoo.com freeloaders.

[Affiliate]

I'm no longer seeing any ads (overture, google, and banners) when I search for meds at yahoo.

[ChesterCoperpot]

I'm no longer seeing any ads (overture, google, and banners) when I search for meds at yahoo.

That just means google results are worth even more now...