Except this article (if you'd have read it and the link), is about Sponsored Profiles and such - profiles you have to choose to visit. This is not about banner ads or Google ads or what-not...
The Planet is actually one of the largest providers of dedicated servers in the world and has quite a reputation for quality. They're not cheap either - no sub-$100 dedicated boxes from them...
"Google doesn't accept payment for inclusion (known as "paid inclusion") of sites in our index, nor for improving the rank of sites in our results."
http://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
No, that's paying for the ads on the side of the actual results.
The search results are dependant on a number of things - one of them not being whether you paid or not
"Its addressing system (known as IPv6) is scarcely used in the United States and may make parts of the Chinese Internet and the rest of the world mutually unreachable."
Gotta love the way the story portrays this as a bad thing on the Chinesse part, where as in fact this is a failing of the rest of the world
My Girlfriend is a collector for a Debt Collection Agency. They do have teeth. They can do your credit rating an awful lot of damage by making an entry saying you owe money have haven't paid it.
I wouldn't take their letters lightly. If you get one, call them about it, right away. Don't think they'll go away.
You want relevant ads, but won't let DoubleClick maintain a profile of what sites you go to and what ads you clicked on, so they can work out what ads might be relevant to you?
You can't have it all, except on sites that like Google where you specifically tell them what you're looking for. How should the front page of Yahoo know?
"No - all in all, if it's all the same to you, I'd prefer other people (a council in this case) did *not*, on my behalf, take my money and decide what they want to spend it on. I'd like them to do that as little as possible, because, frankly, I think they don't do a very good job - people are never as diligent or efficient as spending *other* people's money as they are at spending their own."
I don't know where you're from (I won't speculate), but in the UK, our Council's (local government) spends a lot of money on various community projects, that maybe effect a few hundred people, and are sometimes of questionable benefit, but they still happen, because they enhance the overall social landscape.
This is a perfectly fine thing to do. The project above maybe cost £50,000 (?) to do, which in the grand scheme is almost nothing.
If the local council had spent that money, say, renovating a lock on a canal way, would you be moaning? It would probably have cost more, and would effect a similiar number of people.
My town has a "Museum" (in the loosest of terms). Is it the best use of the council's money? Probably not, but in the grand scheme of their budget, it's a good thing.
My point is, local government spending a tiny (relatively) ammount of money on something that is not their "core" role is not wrong - it helps make things interesting. Just think of all the non-core things your local government has done recently (think events, renovations, etc).
Having been in Retail Security for a while, I can tell you that in a Mall environment, no one cares about them.
This is Canada. Zellers staff just have to record why it was set off. They have a clipboard by the checkout, and have to record the alarms. They always just stand at the checkout and put it as false positives.
The best game is getting a big pile of the "setter-offers" and sticking them on colleagues hehe
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Is it really worth anything (or much)?
All the other domain names that have sold for millions have generally had some sort of business/commerce potential.
Diamonds.com - sell diamonds
Business.com - loads of things you can do with this
Auction.com - obvious...
Elections.com and Iran.com - can't really see much potential to make money from those (certainly not millions anyway).
If you're marketing offline, you do (and always will) need a good domain name.
People do still market websites offine you know..
Except this article (if you'd have read it and the link), is about Sponsored Profiles and such - profiles you have to choose to visit. This is not about banner ads or Google ads or what-not...
"By agreeing to pay $65 million for Grouper--a profitless video-sharing company with negligible market share--Sony..."
If by profitless, they mean loss-making, then yes, they would spend millions on a site that's losing money...
The Planet is actually one of the largest providers of dedicated servers in the world and has quite a reputation for quality. They're not cheap either - no sub-$100 dedicated boxes from them...
Why does everyone keep saying to go to a store?
Having worked for a number of cell phone retailers, there's nothing the store can do.
Most of the time, the store is just a re-seller/dealer and doesn't know anything about your account or anything.
... didn't I see this being advertised about 18 months ago in Canada?
You're implying that non-US Governments should be ran away from in tax matters? That tax matters only matter in the US or what?
Maybe they're big, in, um, India???
Yeh, dead..... Google only made like a billion dollars from it last year...
Yeh, they do things to try and stop people being able to just throw money at it and get to the top
"Google doesn't accept payment for inclusion (known as "paid inclusion") of sites in our index, nor for improving the rank of sites in our results." http://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
No, that's paying for the ads on the side of the actual results. The search results are dependant on a number of things - one of them not being whether you paid or not
They make the vast majority of their income from AdSense actually... No one pays to be listed in their search results
Gotta love the way the story portrays this as a bad thing on the Chinesse part, where as in fact this is a failing of the rest of the world
My Girlfriend is a collector for a Debt Collection Agency. They do have teeth. They can do your credit rating an awful lot of damage by making an entry saying you owe money have haven't paid it. I wouldn't take their letters lightly. If you get one, call them about it, right away. Don't think they'll go away.
You can't have it all, except on sites that like Google where you specifically tell them what you're looking for. How should the front page of Yahoo know?
If you want semi-interesting, maybe relevant ads, then allow advertisers to find out a bit about you!
Ironically enough, that was the one time ever that they messed up, and lost the order, even though their server was about 20 ft to the left of us
Pizza 73 has been offering this in Western Canada for ages too. Extremely useful
I did take a quick look at his previous posts (at least the titles) My bad
I don't know where you're from (I won't speculate), but in the UK, our Council's (local government) spends a lot of money on various community projects, that maybe effect a few hundred people, and are sometimes of questionable benefit, but they still happen, because they enhance the overall social landscape.
This is a perfectly fine thing to do. The project above maybe cost £50,000 (?) to do, which in the grand scheme is almost nothing.
If the local council had spent that money, say, renovating a lock on a canal way, would you be moaning? It would probably have cost more, and would effect a similiar number of people.
My town has a "Museum" (in the loosest of terms). Is it the best use of the council's money? Probably not, but in the grand scheme of their budget, it's a good thing.
My point is, local government spending a tiny (relatively) ammount of money on something that is not their "core" role is not wrong - it helps make things interesting. Just think of all the non-core things your local government has done recently (think events, renovations, etc).
They're for putting TVs, VCRs, DVDs, etc on, and wheeling from room to room, often used in Educational establishments
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This is Canada. Zellers staff just have to record why it was set off. They have a clipboard by the checkout, and have to record the alarms. They always just stand at the checkout and put it as false positives.
The best game is getting a big pile of the "setter-offers" and sticking them on colleagues hehe