Google rolls out revamped DoubleClick Ad Exchange

From CNET News.com: Having conquered the Web's text-based ad market, Google is setting its sights on graphical display ads--a market dominated by rival Yahoo.

The search giant on Thursday took the wraps off a revamped DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a public exchange that allows publishers to offer excess ad inventory they can't sell to advertisers looking for a bargain. Google said the exchange will meld DoubleClick's ad exchange with Google's own technology.

"Better technology can help make display advertising work better for all involved," Neal Mohan, Google's vice president of product management, said in a statement. "We're focused on growing the display advertising pie for everyone. The DoubleClick Ad Exchange is a major part of that goal."

The revamped exchange will incorporate Google's AdWords and AdSense programs, as well as feature real-time bidding and a new API (application programming interface) designed for ad networks.

Yahoo, which runs the largest online ad exchange through RightMedia, an exchange it purchased in 2007 for $680 million, said it expected the display market to have other exchanges.

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