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NYT On Google's Role In Internet Advertising
prostoalex writes "John Markoff and G. Pascal Zachary from The New York Times take a look at Google, its already dominant position in the field of Web search and its increasing influence in the field of Internet advertising. Google is driving advertisers away from larger advertising venues, like AOL-TW et al., since (surprise!) people actually pay attention to relevant text links and are quite annoyed by pop-ups and similar "innovations". Some interesting data about Google: number of employees is about 800, number of buildings is 4, number of servers is 54K, for which there are about 100K microprocessors and 261K hard drives. This is claimed to be the largest computing system in the world, and that also raises barriers for anyone entering the field of Web search - most of companies out there can only imagine a Beowulf cluster of these, let alone build them so that the Web searches are delivered within a second."
... and that is for Google to make a wrong move so that everyone goes "monopolist paranoia". This should be fun if it happens, think about arguments like: "these search results look rather suspicious to me".
those servers running Windows 2000.
Well, maybe not.
Oh.
""We are learning that old-fashioned interruption marketing just isn't working," said Hans Peter Brondmo, a technologist who is an executive at Digital Impact, a direct-marketing firm in Silicon Valley."
Classic example of an Ape escaping from a zoo and buying a suit. He didn't even said they HAVE learned, they are still in the process of learning!
I wonder if this guy ever had a kitten named "Ball".
People are too focussed (sp?) on size as a measure of a company.
And that surprises you? How many contests, business or otherwise, boil down to size? How many are just complex ways for little boys to whip out their willies and measure them against one another?
Hell, dick-measuring seems to be genetically encoded for most men, especially when the actual equipment is substandard. Just take a gander here at Slashdot to see techno-geeks engaged in the same stupid games as men in other walks of life. They may *seem* to be arguing about some completely unrelated topic, but in actuality all they're trying to do is prove that yes, indeed, they have a monstrous penis.
Must be inspired by all the jumbo dicks they see in their porn downloads....
Max
My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
I've made another one:
Feel free.
How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life
54k servers? 100k microprocessors?
And I thought I had a fan noise problem.
In case Google gets /.'ed, here's a mirror.
fsck -u
261K hard drives? That sucks! My hard drive is 80G!
Haha! Mac weenies are paying like $30 for the same machine! What losers!
Your comment reminded me of a Chris Rock bit, where he went on how when people get in trouble, they don't take responsibility but instead blame the media. "Oh no, run, it's the media!!!!"