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CONTACT GOOGLE AND COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS

He takes too long to get to his point. I'm not going to watch for an hour about this BS.

OMG THE TRAFFIC IS EXPLODING! EXPLODING MORE THAN STARBUCKS! NOTIFY CNN!
 
Originally posted by: tfinch2
He takes too long to get to his point. I'm not going to watch for an hour about this BS.

OMG THE TRAFFIC IS EXPLODING! EXPLODING MORE THAN STARBUCKS! NOTIFY CNN!
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why not just skim up to the end? quit being lazy and help keep google, gmail, etc from sucking.



Originally posted by: lozina
Screw that, I'm going to complain to George W Bush about this!
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might as well complain to a bowl of soup... it'd probably do more than bush ever does.
 
Originally posted by: tfinch2
He takes too long to get to his point. I'm not going to watch for an hour about this BS.

OMG THE TRAFFIC IS EXPLODING! EXPLODING MORE THAN STARBUCKS! NOTIFY CNN!
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No kidding. I watched maybe 2 mins of it and stopped.
 
Ummm, complain about what? That a company uses advertising to support the service of giving us a very good free search engine? Free e-mail? Several OTHER free services that you might have to pay for elsewhere?
Nah, I'll leave that to the whiners...
My ONLY concern would be Google's privacy issues, and if you don't give them personal information, they really can't share it....now can they?
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD
Ummm, complain about what? That a company uses advertising to support the service of giving us a very good free search engine? Free e-mail? Several OTHER free services that you might have to pay for elsewhere?
Nah, I'll leave that to the whiners...
My ONLY concern would be Google's privacy issues, and if you don't give them personal information, they really can't share it....now can they?
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you obviously didn't listen to why it's important to have google stop the advertising violators
 
Originally posted by: tfinch2
He takes too long to get to his point. I'm not going to watch for an hour about this BS.

OMG THE TRAFFIC IS EXPLODING! EXPLODING MORE THAN STARBUCKS! NOTIFY CNN!
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I agree...its almost like watching a Micro$oft video! Anyone care to post what the main point of the video is?
 
Originally posted by: Jawo
Originally posted by: tfinch2
He takes too long to get to his point. I'm not going to watch for an hour about this BS.

OMG THE TRAFFIC IS EXPLODING! EXPLODING MORE THAN STARBUCKS! NOTIFY CNN!
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I agree...its almost like watching a Micro$oft video! Anyone care to post what the main point of the video is?
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-People make websites and have google adwords links.
-Site have no content and only have more links to other sites listed in google's search results.
-Said people make money when the people click on the link on their site instead of through a link on google.com
-Said people's sites climb to the top of the google search pages and push down legitmate and informative pages.
-Users must sift through search results with BullSh!t detectors set to max and waste time looking for the information they need.
-Google loses integrity, google users have to work harder to find good results, thus negating the point of google.
 
People actually click on the sponsored results?

Also, I can't stand listening to this guy talk, I couldn't watch the whole thing.
 
Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: Jawo
Originally posted by: tfinch2
He takes too long to get to his point. I'm not going to watch for an hour about this BS.

OMG THE TRAFFIC IS EXPLODING! EXPLODING MORE THAN STARBUCKS! NOTIFY CNN!
Click to expand...


I agree...its almost like watching a Micro$oft video! Anyone care to post what the main point of the video is?
Click to expand...

-People make websites and have google adwords links.
-Site have no content and only have more links to other sites listed in google's search results.
-Said people make money when the people click on the link on their site instead of through a link on google.com
-Said people's sites climb to the top of the google search pages and push down legitmate and informative pages.
-Users must sift through search results with BullSh!t detectors set to max and waste time looking for the information they need.
-Google loses integrity, google users have to work harder to find good results, thus negating the point of google.
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QFT, how could anybody defend these unscrupulous advertisers?
 
I see no problem.

It's not taking money away from the person who clicks on it, and if it takes credibility out of the program, then ad prices will go down, which makes it cheaper to advertise if you own an online business.

So what's the problem?
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7
It sounds almost like a pyramid scheme, with Google at the top.
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It is. Short term, google will reap profits off this, till folks are driven away by the spam content.
 
Originally posted by: JLGatsby
I see no problem.

It's not taking money away from the person who clicks on it, and if it takes credibility out of the program, then ad prices will go down, which makes it cheaper to advertise if you own an online business.

So what's the problem?
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The problem is that in the long run Google will lose credibility for it's sponsored links (since they are becoming increasingly bogus). If nobody clicks the links, Google won't make the money that helps them provide the free services they do.

These ads also make it more difficult to navigate sites and get useful information for users. Not only that, but they are in clear violation of Google's own rules for advertisers.
 
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