Reader Jeremy Writes...
June 18, 2008
Reader Jeremy Writes: [Yahoo] couldn't get off the crack pipe...the Paid Inclusion model. It failed *everywhere*. [It] still can't get off the crack.
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Reader Sam Writes....
May 21, 2008
Reader Sam writes: The police were doing their duty. As they are required by law. Google had to cough up the IP. As they are required by law. And now suddenly
Google is evil? Wow! It is the job of a court of that country to decide what is legally
right or wrong. Not Google or America.
Reader Michael Megalli Writes
April 2, 2008
Reader Michael Megalli writes: It is difficult to engage in genuine conversations with the marketplace when you can't change the reality of how a company does business, what it sells, how it works with partners, etc.
Reader JG writes: Then
November 9, 2007
Reader JG writes: Then again, power users don't click ads. So maybe this is the elephant in the room that no one is talking about.
Reader Stone Writes...
September 16, 2007
Reader Stone writes: I think this much is clear: Yahoo only outsources search to Google if they're bought by a financial or private equity firm.
Reader JG Writes
August 25, 2007
Reader JG writes: ... YouTube ads like this fly in the face of everything "relevance" based ...(it) is a complete reversal of everything [Google] ever stood for. A non-relevance-based graphical video overlay? How is that not just a banner ad? And wasn't the whole fire and fury behind Google's rise, Google's takeover of the net, founded on a rejection of the "banner", the DoubleClickian "gaudy and irrelevant", approach to web advertising?
Reader Yong Writes
June 11, 2007
Reader Yong writes: Regardless of this debate, google should be so intelligent as to take the necessary steps to prevent the abuse of its power. Instead of waiting for a disaster to happen, which may actually harm people.
Reader Mat Writes:
June 2, 2007
Reader Mat writes: If Google is solely a "technology and advertising" company, as you say, and their current business model undermines the very content production houses they rely upon for (bi-directional) traffic, then the company should have a very real interest in making sure those media companies stay afloat, for purely _business_ reasons
Reader Hercule DB Writes...
March 27, 2007
Reader Hercule DB writes: Each of us has a choice to make. How much privacy do we demand? What price freedom? We should rather live in a free world troubled even by threats from terrorists, than one in which individuals or organizations in whom I have little trust have open access and therefore control over our lives.
Reader Kamal Writes...
March 18, 2007
Reader Kamal writes: Besides some start-ups, Microsoft is the only company which is trying to innovate in this space. This is actually as important, if not more important, as improving the search quality even further.
Reader Marc Writes...
February 22, 2007
Reader Marc writes: Web apps in general have barely made a dent in client-side usage and this announcement of a loosely joined set of apps by Google isn't likely to change that anytime soon.
Dr. Pete Writes
February 7, 2007
Reader Dr. Pete writes: For all of the lip service we pay to Web 2.0, it's amazing to stop and think how much the internet has really changed in the past decade. It's already revolutionalized almost everything we do, and yet we've taken it for granted in record time.
Reader Kamal Jain Writes...
February 5, 2007
Reader Kamail Jain Writes: Google has a very clean home page. It has links to their advertisement products, may be useful, for 1% of their visitors who advertise on Google. But no link to their privacy policy, which is relevant for 100% of their users.
Reader Kamal Jain Writes...
February 5, 2007
Reader Kamail Jain Writes: Google has a very clean home page. It has links to their advertisement products, may be useful, for 1% of their visitors who advertise on Google. But no link to their privacy policy, which is relevant for 100% of their users.
Reader Dr. Pete Writes:
December 27, 2006
Reader Bryan Writes...
November 1, 2006
Reader Bryan Writes: Who's to say Panama will fail? What Google did was not rocket science. All they did was realize that CTR is an important consideration for monetization.
Yahoo has learned, and is taking corrective measures. The only difference is that they inherited Overture's antiquated infrastructure. Panama is their ticket to a higher yield.
Reader Greg Says...
October 6, 2006
Reader John Writes...
September 26, 2006
Reader John (of the New Scientist) writes: We constantly play with where our subscription barrier falls and use site analytics to measure the effect of these tests. While deep linking is your preferred model we are also interested in sponsored-access to content, releasing articles based on their age, releasing articles if there is exceptional interest in them, barrier access holidays, one-click free, and so on and so forth.... Oh, and because of the high interest in the Bruce Sterling article we decided to extend the free access - enjoy.
Reader Salman Writes...
September 25, 2006
Reader Salman writes: To be truly disruptive in a market...you need to start at the low end...that’s how Google’s advertising engine / network became so powerful. But Google seems to be acting in a non-disruptive way in two important high growth markets, by concentrating on ‘big corporate deals’ with ‘big corporate customers’ - those markets are: Video, where it is striking deals with the likes of MTV, and online (non-text) advertising, where it is wooing big customers like GM.
JG Writes...
September 19, 2006
Reader JG writes: Junk pages and splogs are one thing (see this Motley Fool article), but even worse is the whole issue of journalistic or other text that is written so as not to offend Adsense, and thus not lose advertising dollars (see here for example).
As the entire economic model of the web increasingly comes to rely on this sort of contextual advertising, I think there is an honest concern over what effect this is having on journalism.
