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Everyone likes to vilify the content farms and scrapers (and they deserve it) but the real villain behind all of this is CPC/CPM based advertising. Can you ima
by po 16y ago
Everyone likes to vilify the content farms and scrapers (and they deserve it) but the real villain behind all of this is CPC/CPM based advertising.
Can you imagine a world where your attention was sold off based on how long you stayed on a page rather then how often you switched pages? If google wants to fix their search results, they should focus on fixing adsense. The technology to more accurately measure a viewer's exposure to an ad are there, it just needs a trustworthy player to bring it to market. Someone trusted by both users and advertisers.
Google made click/impression-based advertising appealing to both groups and it made them what they are now. It's time to get away from it.
- chaz 16y agoWhat's the technology that measures the value of an exposure to an ad?
- ohashi 16y agoWhat magical solution do you have in mind that's better than PPC? I mean it's an open bidding market where advertisers pay for specific results. It's pretty damn fantastic for calculating exactly how much each customer cost and I only pay for a result (click).