In one of the more surprising moves of 2005 (so far), Ask Jeeves announced they would be launching an Ask-owned advertising service, while slowly moving away from their previous ad partner, Google’s AdWords service.
AdSense Ads Appearing In RSS Feeds
There have been a number of reports concerning the appearance of Google AdSense ads in an RSS feed of note. While this particular service appears to only be in a testing phase, it does demonstrate Google is finally embracing RSS, at least in an advertising sense.