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Microsoft released a nice number of new adCenter features today - see the summary in this PDF document.

The good news: the features represent some much-needed improvements, especially in reporting capabilities. But they really just bring overall functionality closer to the 2006 version of Google AdWords - and still a distant third behind Google and Yahoo, not just in traffic but in user interface.

It’s sort of surprising that software giant Microsoft still hasn’t released a competitive ad platform, having started development in 2005. Yahoo’s been adding spiffy features at a faster pace - check out their campaign optimization and ad generator tools, for example.

But as I’ve said before: never underestimate Microsoft. Version 3.x is usually the killer app.

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