Comments on: All eyes on Google

By: Dreamdeceiver, Silcone Valley

Dreamdeceiver, Silcone Valley — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:40:35 +0000

@Adam

Good one. Too many of the Pope’s preists like snake oil a bit too much as well. That’s why he is over from Italy running a PR campaign.

As far as Google goes…

FYI: Where I work (a major player) Google AdSense has started to be blocked in the past week.

Reason: questionable businesses with questionable morals placing inane and misleading advertising.

Now I’m not mentioning, or am I, that despite Google’s claims that they are working on the impovement of ad targeting and click throughs and such, one can’t help but notice 99% of people who have ever clicked on a Google AdSense have done so accidently; while trying to scroll past a link embedded as an text image on a web page they are reading.

And I got the ugliest yellow teeth Sergey & Briny have ever seen.

By: Andrew, Sydney, Australia

Andrew, Sydney, Australia — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:25:08 +0000

Google AdSence is getting worse. They are not corelated some times with page content like others competitors. To check up it – visit metasearch engine http://www.tripleme.com where developers implemented same concept but with much more sophisticated features.

By: Adam, Milan, Italy

Adam, Milan, Italy — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:02:50 +0000

@Dreamdeceiver

I don’t know what you mean. I like snake oil, it’s very tasty.

By: Dreamdeceiver, Silcone Valley

Dreamdeceiver, Silcone Valley — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:43:36 +0000

People who click through Google Ads are idiots, as are 99% of those who place those ads.

Everytime I go to Time.com there is a text ad ‘Yellow Teeth are Ugly’ at other site are similarly stupid ads peddling new age psycho babble, stock picks, and other types of snake oil.

Notice the common theme here?The ‘businesses’ placing these ads are all clowns trying to part fools with their money.

In fact, Google and the whole Web 2.0 phenomena are all running the same business model.

By: Luke, Los Angeles, CA

Luke, Los Angeles, CA — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 23:47:58 +0000

Of course, some companies will increase their ad budget in slow times, but for the most part it appears that others are finding places to streamline their budgets, and ad-spending cuts is one way. BlastCasta.com