Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse

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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Re:Average Consumers? How about average internet..

[RobBebop]

"Excuse me, but can I have that too?"

And because it is Open Source, the answer is "Yes". :)

Now if only you could carry around a portable Virtual Machine Running Ubuntu that you could use to perform some quick and easy Windows fixing.

"Oh, this tool? Well, it's an operating system that I use it to fix Windows, because it doesn't have any of the flaws of Windows. But it does everything else that Windows can do too, with the mildly disappointing exception of letting you play most newer video games."

Re:Average Consumers? How about average internet..

[Dragonslicer]

People love the Geico ads with the duck.

Geico is the gecko. Aflac is the duck.

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