Google Allows Sponsored Rankings...In Ads

A number of written that the sky is fallen because Google is allowing sponsored rankings. Of course, if you read the article it's the sponsored links on the right side of the page - where the ads have always been.

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deptment

[gedgod]

have a look at the deptment.

Dirty Linux Hippies are Dying

[RoboTroll]

Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Dirty GNU Hippie community when last month IDC confirmed that Rancid Smelling GNU Hippies account for less than a fraction of 1 percent of all humans. Coming on the heels of the latest Netcraft survey which plainly states that Natty haired greasy GNU Hippie have lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Reeking Linux Hippies are collapsing in complete disarray, as further exemplified by failing dead last [sysadminmag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive /usr/bin/sh test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin [amdest.com] to predict the future of the Stinking sweaty Linux hippie. The hand writing is on the wall: Foul-stenched GNU hippies with swampy armpits face a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for them because they are dying. Things are looking very bad for Hairy-backed GNU hippie. As many of us are already aware, they continue to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Troll leader Anonymouse Coward states that there are 7000 goatse.cx trolls. How many ascii art trolls are there? Let's see. The number of goatse.cx versus ascii art posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 ascii art trolls. Pimply-faced GNU hippies posts on Slashdot are about half of the volume of ascii art posts. Therefore there are about 700 Dirty GNU Hippies. A recent article put "first post" at about 80 percent of the troll market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 "first post" trolls. This is consistent with the number of first posts.

All major surveys show that Putrid smelling greasy GNU hippies have steadily declined in market share. Slashdot is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Grubby Smelly Linux Hippies are to survive at all it will be among troll hobbyist dabblers. Slashdot continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Dirty GNU Hippies are dead.

Re:err

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Slashdot readers are idiots as usual, and Hemos needed to clarify.

Just keep outbidding Microsoft for the top spot

[TenPin22]

They will always bid higher than you !

Sounds like fun if you can come up with a valid reason to bid.

The real news

[donglekey]

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AHAHAHA!

[Anonymous Coward]

Eat my ass

MOD THIS PAGE WIDENER down, troll

[Anonymous Coward]

damn trolls messing up the reading, go back and post at -1 u moron, not 2, u damn troll

Re:Search Directory

[Anonymous Coward]

Your ideas intrigue me... and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:Link to another search engine for the story?

[Anonymous Coward]

Because this has been the idiot policy of /.
Every other day there is a Reuters story with
a link to yahoo that caries a regurgitated
version of the original. Maybe /.
haven't figured out that Reuters is an English
Language service. So why link to another engine
for this story? Journalistic Freedom - just
kidding.

Stephen King, author, dead at 54

[Anonymous Coward]

I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Horror/Sci Fi writer Stephen King was found dead in his Maine home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.

I AGREE WITH PARENT!!!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Me and other joe average slashdot reader likes to read trolls.... page widening just stop me from doing so. PLEASE klerck, CUT THE SHIT OUT!!!

The history of ad selling in search engines

[Anonymous Coward]

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Wouldn't it be cool if Microsoft sued slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

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