On Apr 6, 2009, at 21:10 , William Stein wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 6:30 PM, dmharvey <dmhar...@cims.nyu.edu>  
> wrote:
>>
>> When I google for "sage math", I get mathematica ads on the right. Is
>> that something they would have done on purpose?
>>
>
> I think it is *highly* likely they did, since it is the *only* ad, it
> is for the cheapest version of Mathematica, and that ad doesn't come
> up for searches for "math".
>
> For posterity I've attached a screenshot.
>
> People might want to try searching, clicking on the add and seeing
> what happens -- maybe you'll cost Mathematica 9c and make Google some
> money that can be used to support further work on Sage :-)

FWIW, I tried the search on Yahoo.  There was only one add there as  
well: for the Sage tutorial, by William Stein.  :-}

I also earned Google $0.09 From Wolfram, or whatever those expensive  
clicks are going for these days.

Justin

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