German group working on rival to Adsense

[thefabfive]

If the internet has proven anything, it's that you don't have to be big to beat the best. That may very well be the mantra of Proximic, a 14-man German startup that is looking to take down Google's AdSense.

While others focus on beating Google at search, Proximic hopes to beat AdSense by syndicating product listings as contextual ads. Proximic recently signed syndication deals with eBay's Shopping.com and Yahoo's shopping network.

The technology used by Proximic will allow web publishers to place an ad widget on their site that indexes the page and serves contextually relevant ads. By combining inventory from eBay, Yahoo and other sources, Proximic estimates it will have a total of about 50 million ads.

http://www.imediaconnection.com/news/18039.asp

http://www.proximic.com

I couldn't find anything on the site about multiple language support. Hopefully, they can be an option in the future.

[yanni]

Thanks, Mo.

[jacksonm]

Now, this sounds like great news, especially if they have european and japanese language ad inventory. Chinese and arabic would also be a bonus.

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