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by robk 16y ago
You're misreading the tone of the post. Google isn't a charity. Their portion of the revshare includes a portion profit and a portion of the cost of adserving.
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by robk 16y ago
Pardo - the 68% is exactly the same for each publisher that has a ca-pub-XXXXXXXXXXXX publisher ID.
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by robk 16y ago
Why would Google care about this? The ad uses Google's results and strips ads and cookie data, meaning they are taking from Google and giving nothing in return. Further, they use an unsupported method to scrape Google. I can see the socia
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by robk 16y ago
Uh, the company is originally Danish and I believe most of the staff are still in fact Danes. Her grammar was poor but understandable. I'm not sure why this guy gets so rage-filled when the email is innocuous when read coming from the mou
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by robk 17y ago
Original submission, linking to Index's announcement. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293110
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by robk 17y ago
Summary: Saul and team announcing UK based seed fund, joining with TAG. Robin Klein to be venture partner.
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Index Ventures announces Index Seed(blog.indexventures.com)
2 points by robk 17y ago|1 comments
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by robk 17y ago
Huge upvote for this. This is excellent advice - my partner had the same situation last year. An entrepreneur making < $91k should most certainly do this asap!
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by robk 17y ago
this doesn't make a ton of sense. A (majority?) good share of ITA's profits are from sales to other traffic search sites and directly to airlines. Google's never had a strength in selling to other enterprises and surely doesn't want to ma
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by robk 17y ago
I really enjoy flyertalk.com for travel and frequent flyer discussions. Their subdomains for particular programs are ripe with really detailed info how to maximize value from any miles you accumulate (even if you earn the miles through met
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by robk 17y ago
It wouldn't surprise me if Google ended commercial activity there for the while (sales offices). Also, this is certainly bad for david drummond. Having a conviction like this as a lawyer surely must hurt your standing with the bar associat
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by robk 17y ago
Good article. Great to see how things have come up for them since being called a has-been in 2001.
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The Geo Wars: How Foursquare Can Survive(elapsedtime.blogspot.com)
1 points by robk 17y ago|0 comments
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by robk 17y ago
I hope it was a three-piece tracksuit, at least. Does Juicy Couture make vests??
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by robk 17y ago
Not much to this article really. The author (who is coincidentally a Facebook ringtone ad guy) says: - I'm not happy with Google results - Bing's are about the same quality, so I can use Bing. Default search deals are valuable, but not the
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by robk 17y ago
The US emb in Lon will hold things for you now. This is new in the past 12 months or so.
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by robk 17y ago
Were it not for the nofollows on the links, I'd guess this was a shill just to get a link on a site that would later be turned into an all-ads site, or a PDF affiliate site. There seem to be quite a few PDF software affiliate programs if y
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by robk 17y ago
Cookie stuffing is an old trick. This seems like a way of defrauding AdSense uniquely by juicing the conversion rate, which is easily doable if one views the conversion code and puts some thought into this sort of method. But it still see
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by robk 17y ago
Neat looking remote, but it feels like they're reinventing the wheel here. There are quite a few other handheld wireless keyboard designs that seem to work well (not to mention the PSP-type form factors). I hope they don't overstretch the
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by robk 17y ago
But that's not really feasible for 100+ languages, not to mention character sets, etc. Editorial doesn't really scale for Google at all. For many of the smaller languages (i.e., outside the top 20 or so) Google only employs at most one nati
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by robk 17y ago
Thoughtful article by Jonathan. For those who don't know him, he's the head of all product at Google and is accountable to Eric, Larry and Sergey. He's Marissa Mayer's boss.
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by robk 17y ago
I hope they don't splash out on "C-Level executives" frankly. Dick Costolo is pretty strong as COO material and I don't think Ev needs to go anywhere. This is like saying Google needed to add C-Level execs in 2002.
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by robk 17y ago
I think the important learning for the child's development is how to think algorithmically or within the confines of a determined system. That application of systemic thinking to solve problems is so valuable in many ways throughout life,
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by robk 17y ago
Justin Rosenstein is a funny guy
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by robk 17y ago
mendeley.com
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by robk 17y ago
This is a pretty powerful article. Regardless of your thoughts on global warming, it's rather upsetting to see scientists' careers ruined through having opinions differing than the gatekeepers of the peer reviewing system.
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by robk 17y ago
As for the timing, it always happens before payout for one clear reason: since so many accounts never earn enough to get paid out it makes no sense to do significant auditing until there's an actual disbursement of cash. Thus the catch tha
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by robk 17y ago
This is the historical Google line and a pretty fair one at that. Those of us that are extremely savvy enough to use ad blockers everywhere are also rather cognizant of where ads appear and usually consciously ignore the ads. Most average
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by robk 17y ago
Time and time again I've heard these PayPal horror stories (and at www.paypalsucks.com). I am very leery of PayPal and make it a point to always transfer any balance out immediately, as their freezes seem like a nightmare to deal with. I
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by robk 17y ago
Miami has strong opposition inside the town's political factions (new Cubans, old Cubans, retirees, etc). As far as I can tell, SF has only "radical" and "more radical" groups.

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