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It never ceases to amaze me that all of these things that Google does are built on the backs of people clicking advertisements. They are building floating powe
by icey 18y ago
It never ceases to amaze me that all of these things that Google does are built on the backs of people clicking advertisements.
They are building floating power plants so we can find out what Abraham Lincoln's favorite color is faster!
- snprbob86 18y agoheh. How many people just Googled "Abraham Lincoln's favorite color"?
- biohacker42 18y agoThere's an old saying that half of advertising is wasted, but you never know which half. Now imagine all that is spent on marketing and advertising and imagine google reducing the waste by even a little bit. That's worth a lot. But I too am amazed that old ladies in middle America on fixed income are pretty much 99% of the ad market.
- netcan 18y agoBut I too am amazed that old ladies in middle America on fixed income are pretty much 99% of the ad market. That's not really true of adwords. The whole 'lower-middle wage housewife interested in sweepstakes' persona were the ones that clicked on banner ads, 10 years ago. Anyway, the way ppc adversising is structured these days, 'most clicks' & 'most advertising spending' are not the same thing. There's an old saying that half of advertising is wasted, but you never know which half. That's the point of adwords. You know which half. Roughly anyway.
- bradgessler 18y agoAnd don't forget; they're also launching their satellites into orbit to make their maps better.
- briansmith 18y agoTo clarify, GeoEye launched a mapping satellite to use for government and commercial use, and reported Google has an exclusive license whereby no other company can publish the publically imagery in a Google-Maps-style application.
- netcan 18y agoI must say, much more interesting then most goldmines in this world. Couldn't imagine Yellow Pages doing this.