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Google is introducing "overlay" ads that fill up a fifth of the screen while playing YouTube videos. Google executive Eileen Naughton describes it as something Google "[has] come up with." But like Google's AdSense, the idea didn't originate in the Googleplex; clips on rival video site VideoEgg has featured overlays for months. [The New York Times]


9:56 PM on Tue Aug 21 2007
By Owen Thomas
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