hello i work to make report about the best idea in internetworld i need if some on can help me about who was idea adsense & adword and if there are site make like this system of ad before google? thanks
http://www.howard.edu/ established in 1980's they started contextual link advertising for other universities its much much older than yahoo and google http://whois.domaintools.com/howard.edu see this link Domain record activated: 06-Jul-1990 but its way old i guess 1985 i believe so digin dep you will find all answers
overture was the first and If you search you'll find a 300 million settlement between google and them. http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/yahoo.html