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India's Secret Army Of Online Ad 'Clickers'
TI-99/4A's RULE writes "Just when I thought I'd heard everything, I just read that, according to The Times of India, there are hordes of people in India clicking pay per click ads for a share of the CPC earnings. Have we gone back to the dotcom boom days again where people are tossing money away on stuff like this? Or is this just a temporary blip, with paid-per action sites like CurrentCodes representing more of a norm in online marketing?"
I had to hire my Ad-Clicking replacement today!
Happy Trails!
Erick
http://www.busyweather.com/
Now where in America did those jobs come from?
If they aren't smart enough to write a little script to do it for them, I'm less worried about my job being offshored.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Why, type in 'earn rupees clicking ads' in Google? you get 25,000 results.
Swell, even AllAdvantage.com is outsourcing.
Yeah, I know their gone
Trolling is a art,
Anyone have a Perl script to generate click throughs automatically - parse a set of pages of know web page add payers and generate hits while I'm sleeping? If so post it here and I'll split the profits with you. :-]
After that you'll need to gather a pool of developers on sourceforge for any would be counter measures that could be used by the click thorough payers. And who said that America is loosing its scientific talent.
When I thought I was onto something I find my job is, once again, outsourced to India!!!
Perhaps I should work on plan B, clicking spam links to boost spammers confidence.
Yeah, I'm a Republican AND a geek. It is possible.
When even punching the monkey gets outsourced.
Ever buy the Sunday paper? First thing you do is dump the 8 pounds of glossy color ads in the nearest garbage can. Everyone knows this, but the advertisers still line up every week to pay for their ads to end up in a landfill.
The same is true with internet ads...They have to pay by click or view or something. There isn't any way around it, that's how all adds are sold.
At least we've finally outsourced a crappy job.
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
The Army reading list
will be to move this pile of rocks to that corner of the room. When you are done, report to me for your next assignment which will involve one of the other three corners of the room, and a similar pile of rocks. at the end of the day, report how many piles of rocks you set up, and how many piles of rocks you moved.
Stupid Interweb.
The 90's called, they want their clicks back.
Seems relevant
I just forward that email from Microsoft and AOL, I'm told that I'll get tons of money very soon.. Silly people actually clicking on ads for money..
My sig left me for a younger user id.
I can see it now.. "Well Jim it appears most people interseted in buying *insert product* are from India. Let's focus our advertising there."
It seems that not only human jobs are outsourced to India, but Perl script jobs as well.
Next time one of my Perl programs starts giving me problems I'll tell it to behave or it'll get replaced by an Indian worker.
Seems like the classic "Go away or I'll replace you with a very small shell script" T-shirt now gets a sequel!
Kaa
Kaa's Law: In any sufficiently large group of people most are idiots.
I'm putting tiny little electrical generators in each mouse, and generating electricity with each click. One hundred million Indians clicking at the same time should be enough to power Toledo.
DEY TOOK AHR JAHBS!!
I recall thinking very little of this individual, and not going into business with him
Little did you now that he would become the CEO of SCO and would just be a salaryman..
Somehow, I don't think this is going to last very long. Anybody who's working on a Pay-Per-Click basis without a way to shut this kind of "unqualified lead" down is going to get wiped out very quickly
They need to IP ban/blackhole India. Not only do they stop the fake clicking, but they bring back all the other jobs that were lost.
hey, I should get a patent on this.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I told all you ad-clickers out there to unionize but now it is too late. All you shoe shiners and bootlickers better watch out, or the next thing you know they will be shipping your boss' shoes to India! Unionized now before it is too late!!!
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
You think that's bad? I spent $49.99 plus $15/month for a subscription to Star Wars Galaxies and Evercrack. And that's on top of the $1.00/day I pay the Indians to mindlessly click the mouse button and grind out the characters and camp the spawns for the gold I sell on eBay.
Ah, I love the 'net and how it lets anyone out the middleman! I mean, by using banner ads, I can cut out 90% of my cost overhead by doing away with the MMORPG part of the business plan altogether. Stupid MMORPGs!
In a quest for more clicks, and to get rid of the middleman, penis enlargement firms begin hiring paid clickers on site.
Mr. Smith from ManGro Technologies explains, "Since the clicks will be coming directly from our own servers we save on bandwidth, and at the same time oversee the entire clicking process, effectively paying substantially less for each click".
According to industry estimates, 1 out of 100 clicks is a buy. "Basically Increasing clicks, means increasing business.", Mr. Smith adds, "As well as the size of your penis."
This is going to be the best prom ever!"
John
The pay per click ads are just the warm-up.
What they're really banking on is damages awarded for their carpal tunnel syndrome lawsuits.
The Dalai LLama
...damn, we're outsourcing SCO's gig...
My sig could be your sig!
When you get it free just by posting the link on slashdot?
I'm curious. What is it like working at Tom's Hardware these days?
A firewall can not protect you from yourself. Turn off what you do not need. Do not use the firewall to do your work.
That's it. Time to take away all of India's computers. All they do is sit around all day trying to make something for nothing on the internet, provide crappy tech support, and pirate Microsoft software and copyrighted music and movies. No wait... that's what I do all day : /
This should now be read:
"What would happen to the NYSE and the NASAQ if all the indian people would click the mouse at the same time?"
Chinese wisdom has been surpassed by Indian wisdom...
Achille Talon
Hop!
Dear Sir, as an employee of the Patent Office of the United States of America, I regret to inform you that we cannot award you your patent, as we outsourced our patenting software/database/processes to India.
Better luck next time,
Outsou R. Ced
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