What year did eBay launch its affiliate program in the US?
What year did Google launch AdSense in the US?
What year did Google launch the "free web search" program in the US,
whereby websites can have a free Google search box on their site,
which is different to the AdSense program?

Hi webuserid,

The following is the result of my research for the questions you have requested:

What year did eBay launch its affiliate program in the US?

"After a late start, eBay finally launched an affiliate program with
ClickTrade in April 2000. It offered affiliates a commission of $3 per
RU. That program is still live and has grown to about 20,000
affiliates over the past year."

ClickZ
http://www.clickz.com/experts/archives/aff_mkt/aff_mkt/article.php/843591


Selected News
April 23, 2000
"eBay also announced an Affiliates Program whereby you get $3 for
everyone who clicks through from your site to its site AND registers."

Auction Bytes
http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y200/m04/abu0012/s11

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What year did Google launch AdSense in the US?

"Google AdSense is the program through which we distribute our
advertisers' AdWords ads for display on the web sites of our Google
Network members. Our AdSense program includes AdSense for search and
AdSense for content. AdSense for search, launched in the first quarter
of 2002, is our service for distributing relevant ads from our
advertisers for display with search results on our Google Network
members' sites. AdSense for content, launched in the first quarter of
2003, is our service for distributing ads from our advertisers that
are relevant to content on our Google Network members' sites. Our
advertisers pay us a fee each time a user clicks on one of our
advertisers' ads displayed on Google Network members' web sites."

Yahoo Finance
http://biz.yahoo.com/e/040818/goog10-q_a.html

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What year did Google launch the "free web search" program in the US,
whereby websites can have a free Google search box on their site,
which is different to the AdSense program?

"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - January 26, 2000 - Google Inc., one of the
fastest growing search destinations on the World Wide Web, today
announced Free WebSearch..."

SEO Reviewer
http://volokh.blogspot.com/2000_01_01_volokh_archive.html


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Rainbow