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India's Secret Army Of Online Ad 'Clickers'

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-one-more-popup dept.

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?"

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  1. As an Indian, I tell you... by bluenote39 · · Score: 5, Informative

    You should be wary of anything Times of India reports. Once a premier newspaper, it has reduced to a tabloid and semi porn website now.

    Case in point, assuming you get paid $0.25 per click as the article reports, that amounts to $180 an hour (assuming you click 1 ad per 5 seconds)!! Thats insane, even by american standards. In India where a average guy gets $300 a month salary, that figure is damn near impossible.

  2. This is almost as senseless as a Wired article by finnhart · · Score: 5, Informative

    Can no one else smell the BS? This is almost as stupid as when Wired's "jargonwatch" claimed that people all over the US were saying "jithead".

    Who is paying 25 cents per click? With programmers at WiPro earning, say, $1000 US per month .. that's just 4,000 clicks, or 150 per day. Right.

    The article's claim that searching for earn rupees clicking ads returns 25,000 results is off by a factor of 10.

    And, finally, it's "CPM", not "CPC".