whoismua

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by whoismua 12y ago
"The implication of this report was that eBay was going to drop AdWords as a channel and focus its efforts on organic search engine optimization. So how did that work out for them?" Hmmm.....just hmmm.... I do not buy that Googl
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by whoismua 12y ago
If Google became as large as AT&T and Comcast they'd be worst. I'm sure At&T and Comcast would support making Google's bread and butter (say Adwords or tracking data) open source or more open too. Google makes a lot o
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by whoismua 12y ago
Apparently not...Google--the fair and balanced search engine--decided that ads and Google's own properties are better. Have you noticed Google's earnings reports that mention a 20+% increase in ad clicks every quarter? Where do yo
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by whoismua 12y ago
Useless article by Danny Sullivan, his columns have offered zero advice for years now. He knows nothing special these days. So MetaFilter has been getting some "help" from Google's public relations squad, as is usually the ca
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by whoismua 12y ago
My guess is that most people will just close the window and FB can claim to care about privacy (...as much as McD's cares about your cholesterol)
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by whoismua 12y ago
You miss the point completely: If Google ads an extra ad you might lose 20% of your traffic even if your rank stays the same. Or if they ad youtube videos on the display, or books, or local or whatever.... So call it manual, algorithmic, di
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by whoismua 12y ago
Especially now that Google is a "content provider," sites like Metafilter have to battle Youtube, Google+ etc for ranking. Guess who's winning? Traffic is going away from other sites to Google's own properties and there&
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by whoismua 12y ago
Resorting to Hitler right away? How about a person who cannot a job because of a certain stupid act from 30 years ago that keeps showing up on Google search? Even credit reports are barred from reporting older than x years acts.
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by whoismua 12y ago
The scale is what I find amazing....That is the challenge I see Google facing, on the one hand AdSense is a thing, on the other its prone to fraud. I don't really feel sorry for Google at all. They are making $10 to $12 BILLION a yea
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by whoismua 12y ago
Chuck, the problem--and IMO it's legit--is that Google allows you sign up, you earn some money and then for no explained reason you lose all of it as they close they your account. Now Google could screen all sites first (not likely) or
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by whoismua 12y ago
>> "This Steve Berman guy behind the suit was a Microsoft lawyer, it's notable becase another Microsoft lawyer tried and failed to sue Google on ad/antitrust grounds a few years back" Even worst, he uses Microsof
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by whoismua 12y ago
DDG is my default SE. Once in a while i ave to go to other SE (Bing second, Google third) but it's a small price to pay to give them a shot. Hopefully the market share will be more evenly distributed among SEs. Let's do our part
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by whoismua 12y ago
IIRC, large customers--and China's Govt is one of them--have access to the Windows source code so safety and security probably aren't the top concern. They can surely audit the code, they have the expertise, money and manpower. My
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by whoismua 12y ago
What others said (operate in US = must obey US laws0 AND the fact that they can freeze out any bank out of the US financial industry.
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by whoismua 12y ago
A year and a half ago, we woke up one day to see a 40% decrease in revenue and traffic to Ask MetaFilter, likely the result of ongoing Google index updates. We scoured the web and took advice of reducing ads in the hopes traffic would impr
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by whoismua 12y ago
Frankly a bit worrying that Matt Cutts doesn't seem to get the fairly straightforward point Oh he gets it, it's his job to act like he doesn't and to change the subject "...Ummm...Bing does it too..look I made a video&
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by whoismua 12y ago
Sure you did Matt, we're also seeing how the only good link as far as Google is concerned is an Adwords one. Can you stop insulting our intelligence, we see how every quarter your Adwords is increasing by double digits as web publish
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by whoismua 12y ago
and how much does a loaf of bread, gasoline, rent etc etc cost there? It's all relative
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by whoismua 12y ago
How would a German official break up Google? Search separate from everything else. but in that bad case scenario, Google would just lose some small fraction of its business. Germany is in EU, so Google would risk losing roughly 50% of t
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German official mulls breaking up Google(cnbc.com)
7 points by whoismua 12y ago|4 comments
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by whoismua 12y ago
That's BS. First off, AT&T already has a business model! And they're making billions from it, too. Google already "snoops" on you, FB snoops on you, so why not AT&T for a discount? Google and FB offer "fre
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by whoismua 12y ago
Very touching. It must take courage to resist treatment, even if you know you're going to die anyway. I hope I never have to decide, but I ever am in her shoes, I hope I'm brave enough to spend any time left with my family and say
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by whoismua 12y ago
Why Twitter, Inc. Shares Tanked Today Let's see: maybe it should have never gotten so expensive and some people awoke up? Tens of billions of dollars is a lot of money and maybe, just maybe, Twitter isn't worth that much. If it
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by whoismua 12y ago
They might have gotten permission, and /or gave Google a %. I think in most companies, what you do in company time, belongs to them. That's very reasonable, since you are getting paid already
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by whoismua 12y ago
He has, in a sense, bought protection and good coverage for his fund and his portfolio companies from Business Insider and Panda Daily by throwing them a few bones. Price of doing business...and a very small price to boot. He gets something
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by whoismua 12y ago
Marc supports the "new" media, ala BusinessInsider. Ironically, they wouldn't have a story if not for the old, "bloated media," since all they do is cut /paste and rewrite a few sentences. Real journalism costs
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by whoismua 12y ago
They absolutely do not want anyone asking about user info, or their "store everything here forever so we can index and show ads next to it" is in trouble. On the other hand, Google doesn't want to piss off the Feds or the Mil
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by whoismua 12y ago
Forbes does this because it's rewarded by Google, they rank for pretty much everything so they fill it with junk.
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by whoismua 12y ago
Not really. He's owed stock for what, 30 years? He could've said that starting from January 20xx (2 years after this announcements) I will automatically sell XX Million shares a year for diversification purposes. But why give the
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by whoismua 12y ago
I agree, but the alternative to have more slaves (plenty of them) pull and have them pull harder. I guess it depends how far the rocks were moved. I know they were quarried far, far away but then moved via the Nile. Now from the Nile to the

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