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Take a look at the site yourself and ask if this is the sort of page you want to end up on. http://timepieces.sourcetool.com/index.php?s=0&l=2&code=5410 http:/

by lacker 18y ago

Take a look at the site yourself and ask if this is the sort of page you want to end up on. http://timepieces.sourcetool.com/index.php?s=0&l=2&code=5410 http://timepieces.sourcetool.com/index.php?s=0&l=2&c... Looks like a spam directory to me.

petercooper 18y ago
I wouldn't, but I'm not the target market for this sort of thing. I'm defending the business model, not the individual site.
- wastedbrains 18y ago
  The model of buying cheap ads and then having pages with nearly no content filled with many more higher paid ads? When I ran a site that had adwords I hated directories like this they would fill up all the ads on my site and no one would click them nor would anyone be happy if they did. It was a constant battle of banning those domains from ads I would allow on my site.
  - petercooper 18y ago
    > The model of buying cheap ads and then having pages with nearly no content filled with many more higher paid ads? Why not? Google does something similar itself with its "link units" where you click through to a new page with a whole group of ads. Advertising is not immoral (usually), illegal (usually), or some sort of thing to wipe out. Buying cheap and selling high is how the world works - whether you're selling labor, bricks, commodities, or, yes, advertising. Would you be raising similar objections if, say, the Yellow Pages advertised with "Find all Builders in YourTown, FL", and it then went to a page with a (paid) list of all the builders in said town? If so, why? It'd be useful and a good demonstration of arbitrage.
peakok 18y ago
Have you read the article ? So what do you think of http://www.business.com http://www.business.com ? A privileged Google partner wich does the same thing but is tolerated. What's the difference ? Why is this one okay but not sourcetool ? Isn't there something under the rug ? Why is the Google policy so arbitrary ? That's the point of the article.

by lacker 18y ago

petercooper 18y ago

I wouldn't, but I'm not the target market for this sort of thing. I'm defending the business model, not the individual site.

wastedbrains 18y ago
The model of buying cheap ads and then having pages with nearly no content filled with many more higher paid ads? When I ran a site that had adwords I hated directories like this they would fill up all the ads on my site and no one would click them nor would anyone be happy if they did. It was a constant battle of banning those domains from ads I would allow on my site.
- petercooper 18y ago
  > The model of buying cheap ads and then having pages with nearly no content filled with many more higher paid ads? Why not? Google does something similar itself with its "link units" where you click through to a new page with a whole group of ads. Advertising is not immoral (usually), illegal (usually), or some sort of thing to wipe out. Buying cheap and selling high is how the world works - whether you're selling labor, bricks, commodities, or, yes, advertising. Would you be raising similar objections if, say, the Yellow Pages advertised with "Find all Builders in YourTown, FL", and it then went to a page with a (paid) list of all the builders in said town? If so, why? It'd be useful and a good demonstration of arbitrage.

peakok 18y ago

Have you read the article ? So what do you think of http://www.business.com http://www.business.com ? A privileged Google partner wich does the same thing but is tolerated. What's the difference ? Why is this one okay but not sourcetool ? Isn't there something under the rug ? Why is the Google policy so arbitrary ? That's the point of the article.