A Closer Look at Google Adwords

zaphle writes "This article describes an interesting experiment with the Google Adwords service; in an effort to fine-tune the price per word, a mirror site was set up, paying a different price per word. I turns out the second site had to pay more in order to reach a similar click-through rate. My questions to the slashdot community: are organizations like Google redefining the law of demand and answer? To what extent does this imply a competitive advantage for larger companies? Do we need an ethical framework to direct companies to make such algorithms open source?"

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Re:Huh?

[vague disclaimer]

Do you believe you live in a free market? Have you seen the size of the SEC rule book? Are you a troll?

Is this a rhetorical question?