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Banners dead says Nielsen
Do you agree that banner ads are useless? What should replace them?
Web Design Guru Predicts Demise of Site Banner Ads
http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=7862
Expert: Most Web ads--especially banner ads--don't work.
by Margret Johnston,
IDG News Service
August 20, 1998, 4:22 p.m. PT
[but there is hope for folks from this class - PJ]
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[Jakob] Nielsen also said the Web's exponential growth indicates that in
four to six years the number of Web sites will grow from the current
number of about 2.8 million to about 200 million. But he said the quality
of the sites will continue to be poor because there are not enough people
with Web-design know-how.
"This means one Web site will have to be created every hour over the next
five years," Nielsen said. "Most Web sites will continue to be bad because
there are not enough people around to design them," Nielsen said.
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