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A Closer Look at Google Adwords

Posted by samzenpus on from the google-google-google dept.

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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  1. Honorable Sir, by EmoryBrighton · · Score: 4, Funny
    To be honest, I just checked, and while there are 1,030,000 Google results for "Cringely," there are no ads at all on the results page, indicating -- as many have long suspected -- that I have no commercial value whatsoever.
    No Way! I'd pay for you NOT to write!
    --
    Rule 2: Writing a spec is like writing code for a brain to execute.
  2. Anti-google hooligan! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    By not supporting everything google does, you are obviously anti-google! Prepare to be modded down into the flamebait abyss you belong in!

  3. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Google can do what google wants to do as long as it's within the limits of the law, you don't like it? Start your own damn company that is more ethical.

    More ethical than "do no evil"?

    Isn't that like:

    - Brighter than the sun
    - Faster than the speed of light
    - More powerfull that $DEITY
    etc.

  4. Re: Google scares me, this I know! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Google scares me! This I know,
    for ibiblio tells me so.
    Little ads to It belong;
    My site is weak but It is strong.

  5. Re:Huh? by Glen+Ponda · · Score: 1, Funny

    Since when is forcing someone to behave in a certain manner considered "freedom"?

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