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Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse

Posted by kdawson on from the put-down-that-pin dept.

David Barrett writes "If you sell three billion ads a month and can't break even, what do you do? Drop prices by 40% and switch business models, apparently. Is this an isolated incident, or does it contribute to the growing pile of evidence that ad inventory is overpriced industry-wide, with Google being the worst offender due to its policy of requiring minimum bids on keywords that would otherwise go for cheap? Check out this analysis on my blog and make up your own mind."

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  1. All that SOAP by hostyle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bubble 2.0. The burst is coming. See it live on slashdot.tv.

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    1. Re:All that SOAP by __aarcfd8085 · · Score: 5, Funny

      *picks up sandwich board and placard*

      "the version release is nigh! repent, ye users of keyword searchs for the saviour: syntactic web 3.0 will cleanse you of spam"