To the first two complaints, about maximized windows: The default settings (which were not changeable in Unity 2D) gave that impression in 11.04, if you had a small screen (e.g., laptop). If a window had been at greater than 70-something percent of the screen size, it was maximized upon re-opening. I remember it well because it drove me nuts and taught me not to minimize windows. Auto-hide the launcher was also the default.
The defaults in 12.04 are, for me, much better. Launcher auto-hide is off, and windows don't auto-maximize.
But only 38 percent of Web searchers even know of the distinction, and of those, not even half 47 percent say they can always tell which are paid. That comes out to only 18 percent of all Web searchers knowing when a link is paid.
Something clearly got lost in summarization here. Besides the mysterious "half 47 percent", the first sentence claims that a certain percentage of respondents "say they can always tell...", and the second draws the conclusion that this means that group are the only ones who can tell paid from unpaid ads.
It could just as well be that the other group of web searchers can tell the difference just fine, but aren't secure about it or aren't willing to say "always," or perhaps they don't trust that the search engines are labeling things accurately.
It could also be that the ones who say they're always able to tell are dead wrong.
I think it would be much more interesting to know how people did in practice, rather than what they reported over the phone.
As an advertiser (not me, the company I work for), we'd prefer paying a percent of what we sell -- no risk for us there. But, as you note, Google would really have no way to verify our accounting.
With click-through, both Google and the advertiser (through the advertiser's web logs) can count the clicks.
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To the first two complaints, about maximized windows: The default settings (which were not changeable in Unity 2D) gave that impression in 11.04, if you had a small screen (e.g., laptop). If a window had been at greater than 70-something percent of the screen size, it was maximized upon re-opening. I remember it well because it drove me nuts and taught me not to minimize windows. Auto-hide the launcher was also the default.
The defaults in 12.04 are, for me, much better. Launcher auto-hide is off, and windows don't auto-maximize.
Yeah, that makes no sense. It doesn't even fit the cited rule -- "bipolar" isn't inappropriate behavior.
Sigh.
How about retrospectives? I have a suspicion your team either isn't doing them, or they also go in the "doesn't work" column for you.
Something clearly got lost in summarization here. Besides the mysterious "half 47 percent", the first sentence claims that a certain percentage of respondents "say they can always tell...", and the second draws the conclusion that this means that group are the only ones who can tell paid from unpaid ads.
It could just as well be that the other group of web searchers can tell the difference just fine, but aren't secure about it or aren't willing to say "always," or perhaps they don't trust that the search engines are labeling things accurately.
It could also be that the ones who say they're always able to tell are dead wrong.
I think it would be much more interesting to know how people did in practice, rather than what they reported over the phone.
As an advertiser (not me, the company I work for), we'd prefer paying a percent of what we sell -- no risk for us there. But, as you note, Google would really have no way to verify our accounting.
With click-through, both Google and the advertiser (through the advertiser's web logs) can count the clicks.