I'll believe Google is working on an OS when I see it and not anytime sooner. Lets not forget that Google's core competency is search. Over 50% of Google's revenue is derived from AdSense. For Google to expand into offering an OS would be a huge departure from their current business strategy (see AdSense).
1. Create new laws and impose them on yourself. 2. Influence new legislation that will force your competition to abide by your bogus laws. 3. Create a new market by having the government eliminate your competition. Sounds like the American way to me...
Having worked in this space for the past few years, I can provide some insight. There are two parts to this issue, the person paying for clicks and the person generating the clicks.
The asbestos mesothelioma bandwagon started a few years ago when the government set aside a multi billion dollar trust fund for victims. In order to dip into the trust fund, a lawyer needs a valid victim of asbestos. The name of the common disease for those that suffer from asbestos exposure is mesothelioma. The average payout is $1M and the attorney commissions are 40%. This explains why attorneys are willing to pay high prices for clicks. Clicks go for as much as $100 on Overture however in practice you never see those high CPC rates. A year ago, $30 clicks were normal; today it's more like $0.25-$5. Even at $100/click, attorneys are taking in huge profits. Paying $10k for a case or 100 clicks at $100/click can be a good investment if you can generate $400k in attorney fees for that case.
Setting up a website to capture these pricey clicks is simple but doing it well can be nearly impossible. The asbestos/meso space is as competitive as it gets. Setting up a blog, creating doorway pages, links and content will only generate a little traffic. Doing well in meso requires aggressive SEO, solid optimization, links and content. Having a lot of traffic makes it easier to monetize. With enough traffic you can lease your site to law firms. AdSense is generally very inefficient so it makes sense to cut out the middle man. Kicking publishers out of Adsense will not stop these sites.
It is an interesting space. The huge settlements that lawyers have been able to generate has fueled a frenzy of SEO activity in the past year. The same activity is seen on TV and print media in Vioxx ads. The most surprising thing here is people are acknowledging online advertising and its ability to sell almost anything.
People are quick to point out Google is better because it has the largest index and that is not necessarily true. In November the Google spider made a big push to increase the size of their index and they did this by going deeper into websites, not by finding new sites. Having more pages meant more results in your query on Google but the first few pages of search results reamined unchanged.
My opinion is that Google is the current leader in search. Google uses misspellings, synonyms and stemming and has a good balance between on the page optimization and off the page optimization. MSN seems to give a lot of importance to the keywords within the URL. Yahoo is too susceptible to blog spam but that's another conversation. Google may not be perfect but I think it is the overall leader today.
To prove they have loyal fans? If you want to save Star Trek, send a donation! Or better yet, buy a commercial slot on TV and ask people to sign a petition to save Star Trek.
Would recall_carl01's anonymity still be protected lies were told?
This reminds me of a story involving the website Tucker Max and first ammendment rights: http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kayhan/misc/missvermont/ 02INTE.html
While Tucker Max's story did not involve sercret identities, it did bring up the issue of defamation and the right to free speech. The basic story is Tucker posted graphic details about his relationship with a girl and the girl sued requesting those stories be removed from his website. The court ruled in favor of Tucker saying the stories, while in poor taste, are valid forms of free speech because the stories are not false.
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On that list I see lots of action, sci fi, and some good comedy movies. I do not see movies that most girls would want to see. If it's a list of the top 50 DVD's then include all movies that are indeed DVD's - and if it's a list of the top 50 flicks for guys then point it out in the name of the list.
What was your favorite new game from the past year? I'm sure you wanted an MMO here, but the MMOs I played the most in the last year were made by us.
What was your favorite new or innovative design from the past year? ...there wasn't a ton of innovation in the last year, in the MMO space anyway.
What was the most disappointing game or design from the past year? I think if you were looking for a sense of world or community, you were out of luck this year.
Was Raph Koster rejected for a job at Blizzard, NCSoft or Sony? There were plenty of major releases in 2004 but he seems unable to recognize even one.
Here are my population estimates for some of the major MMORPG's.
Lineage: 2,000,000 subscribers
World of Warcraft: 600,000
Final Fantasy XI: 550,000
Everquest 1: 250,000
City Of Heroes: 200,000
Everquest 2: 150,000
A Tale in the Desert 2: 1,500
1,500 isn't much in the world of Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game's.
Why am I not surprised that the copied site was hosted at ThePlanet.com? Less than one month ato I found someone make an exact duplicate of my companies website and had to go through ThePlanet.com to remove the copy. ThePlanet operates what looks like dozens of authorized resellers. In my situation, we found someone copy our site and host it at one of these resellers. Figuring out the reseller was essentially operated by ThePlanet was not easy. The entire process was actually much less complicated than what the author makes you believe. ThePlanet has a page of instructions dedicated to these types of complaints. Follow the simple instructions, send a letter, and any problem with sites hosted at ThePlanet will be resolved. Another important part of these processes is to get in touch with a lawyer. It's amazing how quickly people respond to formal legal complaints.
The max penalty for invouluntary manslaughter is 9 years in prison - todays front page of my local newspaper actually describes such a case. And this guy who was caught trying stealing credit card information gets an equivilant sentence? Isn't that a little severe? I'm all for punishing criminals and using long sentences as a way to pursued other would be criminals against commiting crimes however this is a little silly.
Books should go to Amazon, instead show http://free-adult-comix-books.sexcomix.tv Auctions should go to eBay or Y! Auctions, instead show http://auctions.studentcenter.org Email should got to Y! Email or hotmail, instead show http://rfc1733.x42.com Dating should show match.com or eHarmony, instead shows every subdomain on games-ts.com.
These are just a few examples to make a point that Accoona is far from showing good results. Accoona did hire the former CEO of Compaq and Clinton himself announced the new search engine today however the engineering part of Accoona is in need of serious improvement.
You have a good point - when do you sue for click fraud? At 100 clicks, 1,000 or 1,000,000 clicks? Click fraud is a gray issue that I believe is impossible to prevent and it will be interesting to see how this situation unfolds.
Half life 2 get a 7/10. Here's the plot for Half Life 2. This may be a spoiler. 1. Run from the police. 2. Drive a boat. 3. Run from zombies. 4. Drive a buggie. 5. Run from the police. 6. Come to the end and realize that the game has no plot but the graphics were cool.
I am looking forward to Team Fortress II, at which point I'll really know if I got my money's worth.
I once had a college professor test us on how to use punch cards. We knew he was crazy when he started to teach how to add and subtract binary and hex by hand. I would have walked out had I not been 13 and unable to drive home.
I haven't played EQ2 but I played EQ1 enough to know SOE has no problem launching a product before it is ready. The fact that EQ2 has been in development for 6 years and it is just now being released two weeks before WoW tells me this is another one of those times.
Doubleclick may seem like an antiquated giant however they did buy Performics, a small successful affiliate marketing network. It should also be said that a company positioning itself to sell is not news. Every company wants to be sold. What's newsworthy is when the buyer and seller agree. This news about Doubleclick hiring a financial adviser as a precursor to a sale is likely nothing more than an over zealous journalist with a penchant for generating conspiracy theories.
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I certainly question whether or not this editorial came in through an honest submission or one was paid to be posted...Anyone else agree?
I'll believe Google is working on an OS when I see it and not anytime sooner. Lets not forget that Google's core competency is search. Over 50% of Google's revenue is derived from AdSense. For Google to expand into offering an OS would be a huge departure from their current business strategy (see AdSense).
1. Create new laws and impose them on yourself.
2. Influence new legislation that will force your competition to abide by your bogus laws.
3. Create a new market by having the government eliminate your competition.
Sounds like the American way to me...
shizzolate that sh*t
...I'm not sure if this is good or bad or just an example of the capitalist world we live in...I think it's the latter.
Having worked in this space for the past few years, I can provide some insight. There are two parts to this issue, the person paying for clicks and the person generating the clicks.
The asbestos mesothelioma bandwagon started a few years ago when the government set aside a multi billion dollar trust fund for victims. In order to dip into the trust fund, a lawyer needs a valid victim of asbestos. The name of the common disease for those that suffer from asbestos exposure is mesothelioma. The average payout is $1M and the attorney commissions are 40%. This explains why attorneys are willing to pay high prices for clicks. Clicks go for as much as $100 on Overture however in practice you never see those high CPC rates. A year ago, $30 clicks were normal; today it's more like $0.25-$5. Even at $100/click, attorneys are taking in huge profits. Paying $10k for a case or 100 clicks at $100/click can be a good investment if you can generate $400k in attorney fees for that case.
Setting up a website to capture these pricey clicks is simple but doing it well can be nearly impossible. The asbestos/meso space is as competitive as it gets. Setting up a blog, creating doorway pages, links and content will only generate a little traffic. Doing well in meso requires aggressive SEO, solid optimization, links and content. Having a lot of traffic makes it easier to monetize. With enough traffic you can lease your site to law firms. AdSense is generally very inefficient so it makes sense to cut out the middle man. Kicking publishers out of Adsense will not stop these sites.
It is an interesting space. The huge settlements that lawyers have been able to generate has fueled a frenzy of SEO activity in the past year. The same activity is seen on TV and print media in Vioxx ads. The most surprising thing here is people are acknowledging online advertising and its ability to sell almost anything.
- Dave Chappelle in 'The Black President'
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People are quick to point out Google is better because it has the largest index and that is not necessarily true. In November the Google spider made a big push to increase the size of their index and they did this by going deeper into websites, not by finding new sites. Having more pages meant more results in your query on Google but the first few pages of search results reamined unchanged.
My opinion is that Google is the current leader in search. Google uses misspellings, synonyms and stemming and has a good balance between on the page optimization and off the page optimization. MSN seems to give a lot of importance to the keywords within the URL. Yahoo is too susceptible to blog spam but that's another conversation. Google may not be perfect but I think it is the overall leader today.
To prove they have loyal fans? If you want to save Star Trek, send a donation! Or better yet, buy a commercial slot on TV and ask people to sign a petition to save Star Trek.
Would recall_carl01's anonymity still be protected lies were told?
/ 02INTE.html
This reminds me of a story involving the website Tucker Max and first ammendment rights:
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~kayhan/misc/missvermont
While Tucker Max's story did not involve sercret identities, it did bring up the issue of defamation and the right to free speech. The basic story is Tucker posted graphic details about his relationship with a girl and the girl sued requesting those stories be removed from his website. The court ruled in favor of Tucker saying the stories, while in poor taste, are valid forms of free speech because the stories are not false.
On that list I see lots of action, sci fi, and some good comedy movies. I do not see movies that most girls would want to see. If it's a list of the top 50 DVD's then include all movies that are indeed DVD's - and if it's a list of the top 50 flicks for guys then point it out in the name of the list.
What was your favorite new game from the past year?
...there wasn't a ton of innovation in the last year, in the MMO space anyway.
I'm sure you wanted an MMO here, but the MMOs I played the most in the last year were made by us.
What was your favorite new or innovative design from the past year?
What was the most disappointing game or design from the past year?
I think if you were looking for a sense of world or community, you were out of luck this year.
Was Raph Koster rejected for a job at Blizzard, NCSoft or Sony? There were plenty of major releases in 2004 but he seems unable to recognize even one.
The numbers were gathered from press releases however some press releases are more current than others.
Here are my population estimates for some of the major MMORPG's.
Lineage: 2,000,000 subscribers
World of Warcraft: 600,000
Final Fantasy XI: 550,000
Everquest 1: 250,000
City Of Heroes: 200,000
Everquest 2: 150,000
A Tale in the Desert 2: 1,500
1,500 isn't much in the world of Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game's.
Why am I not surprised that the copied site was hosted at ThePlanet.com? Less than one month ato I found someone make an exact duplicate of my companies website and had to go through ThePlanet.com to remove the copy. ThePlanet operates what looks like dozens of authorized resellers. In my situation, we found someone copy our site and host it at one of these resellers. Figuring out the reseller was essentially operated by ThePlanet was not easy. The entire process was actually much less complicated than what the author makes you believe. ThePlanet has a page of instructions dedicated to these types of complaints. Follow the simple instructions, send a letter, and any problem with sites hosted at ThePlanet will be resolved. Another important part of these processes is to get in touch with a lawyer. It's amazing how quickly people respond to formal legal complaints.
The Justice Department estimated that the seized copyright material alone was worth $50 million.
You think if this guy was sitting on $50 million dollars that he would be peddling warez and playing games?
The max penalty for invouluntary manslaughter is 9 years in prison - todays front page of my local newspaper actually describes such a case. And this guy who was caught trying stealing credit card information gets an equivilant sentence? Isn't that a little severe? I'm all for punishing criminals and using long sentences as a way to pursued other would be criminals against commiting crimes however this is a little silly.
Accoona's results are full of spammy sites.
Books should go to Amazon, instead show http://free-adult-comix-books.sexcomix.tv
Auctions should go to eBay or Y! Auctions, instead show http://auctions.studentcenter.org
Email should got to Y! Email or hotmail, instead show http://rfc1733.x42.com
Dating should show match.com or eHarmony, instead shows every subdomain on games-ts.com.
These are just a few examples to make a point that Accoona is far from showing good results. Accoona did hire the former CEO of Compaq and Clinton himself announced the new search engine today however the engineering part of Accoona is in need of serious improvement.
And here is the first lawsuit filed by google against a company for committing click fraud.
f raud/2100-1024_3-5463243.htmlhttp://news.com.com/G oogle+gets+gruff+over+click+fraud/2100-1024_3-5463 243.html
http://news.com.com/Google+gets+gruff+over+click+
You have a good point - when do you sue for click fraud? At 100 clicks, 1,000 or 1,000,000 clicks? Click fraud is a gray issue that I believe is impossible to prevent and it will be interesting to see how this situation unfolds.
Half life 2 get a 7/10. Here's the plot for Half Life 2. This may be a spoiler.
1. Run from the police.
2. Drive a boat.
3. Run from zombies.
4. Drive a buggie.
5. Run from the police.
6. Come to the end and realize that the game has no plot but the graphics were cool.
I am looking forward to Team Fortress II, at which point I'll really know if I got my money's worth.
I once had a college professor test us on how to use punch cards. We knew he was crazy when he started to teach how to add and subtract binary and hex by hand. I would have walked out had I not been 13 and unable to drive home.
The author admits his conclusions are based off a grain of salt. This article is more like a conspiracy theory than it is news.
I haven't played EQ2 but I played EQ1 enough to know SOE has no problem launching a product before it is ready. The fact that EQ2 has been in development for 6 years and it is just now being released two weeks before WoW tells me this is another one of those times.
Doubleclick may seem like an antiquated giant however they did buy Performics, a small successful affiliate marketing network. It should also be said that a company positioning itself to sell is not news. Every company wants to be sold. What's newsworthy is when the buyer and seller agree. This news about Doubleclick hiring a financial adviser as a precursor to a sale is likely nothing more than an over zealous journalist with a penchant for generating conspiracy theories.
mirror, trailer, whatever. My time is too valuable to read the article.