Off the top of my head neither do I, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too tough. Commission Junction hijacking was a problem for awhile where spyware could take every transaction an infected host makes and credit that towards a CJ account, i'm not sure if this technology is relevant to the application we were talking about, but maybe...
Albeit a great idea, in the end this would actually hurt the/.'s of the world because advertisers would find that their advertising dollars are less and less effective, pulling their budgets. Combine that idea with this:
When you want to buy something, say a w00t shirt from thinkgeek, instead of going straight to thinkgeek, if the user had a small search application that would instantly pull up the thinkgeek banner ad from one of their favorite publishing sites and auto-clicked on it, both the click AND the sale would be attributed to/.
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Off the top of my head neither do I, but I'm sure it wouldn't be too tough. Commission Junction hijacking was a problem for awhile where spyware could take every transaction an infected host makes and credit that towards a CJ account, i'm not sure if this technology is relevant to the application we were talking about, but maybe...
Albeit a great idea, in the end this would actually hurt the /.'s of the world because advertisers would find that their advertising dollars are less and less effective, pulling their budgets. Combine that idea with this:
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When you want to buy something, say a w00t shirt from thinkgeek, instead of going straight to thinkgeek, if the user had a small search application that would instantly pull up the thinkgeek banner ad from one of their favorite publishing sites and auto-clicked on it, both the click AND the sale would be attributed to