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Google-yahoo-adverts stick together - 9/8/2008 1:00:42 PM

pahunkboy

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http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/09/advertisers-sta.html

oh man- this is a hoot!

check out those corps who sent the letter. they say the merger would hurt competition. Well now- isnt that so ironic that GM, Walmart supports competition? Did I miss that page?

So now the titans now take on eachother. I shall cry a thousand tears for the grid!!!

how can they say this with a straight face?

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RE: Google-yahoo-adverts stick together - 9/8/2008 1:04:37 PM

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oh here it says they were "reluctant". that must be like 1/2 pregnant....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122081865660208065.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

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RE: Google-yahoo-adverts stick together - 9/8/2008 2:24:16 PM

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As someone who does ppc advertising with both Yahoo and Google, I would prefer that the partnership didn't go through. There's nothing like waking up one morning and finding traffic to your site dropping to a trickle because Google decided for whatever reason the quality score of your site isn't up to par and slapped all your keywords with $10 bids. That's $10 a click. Any intelligent businessowner will know that putting all your eggs in one basket is never a good thing. Would any business want 90% of their revenues coming from one client? Of course not. That's a recipe for disaster. A Google-Yahoo partnership where Google controls 90% of the search advertising inventory is the same thing.

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RE: Google-yahoo-adverts stick together - 9/8/2008 5:41:05 PM

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I understand.

I find it telling that THE forces that stopped competition left and right now want themselfs to enjoy such protection that they did not afford to others.

lets not get me started on GM, how they killed the EV1, how 12 states now have to sue the fed in order to enact California emissions...al the while that CM wants 50 billion in guaranteed loans, they claim isnt a bail out. So while interest rates came down per the federal reserve which charges us interest on money [they are a private corp, not he govt] so now we will pay to loan the money, AND the front low interest loans.. on billions. This after Bear Stearns bail out... fannie mae, freddy mac.

I doubt writing congress would matter one bit. GM is in the top 10 lobbiests.

Now as to a individual- Ild prefer the 2 not merge. I all but abandoned yahoo email as it has about 33000 spam emails in it. I also despise yahoo messenger which ruined one computer. The settings always go back to the YM being the main reason to be online. They dont need to flatter themselfs.

Google offers better items. For now thats what I use. I like their documents and web history feature..and I like that they are part of open source project.

Meanwhile comcast is sueing the FCC over net nuetrality. Now that the big lawyers are here...say Good bye to the net as we know it.

RIP WWW 1998-2008

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RE: Google-yahoo-adverts stick together - 9/8/2008 5:48:58 PM

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http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2008/09/04/comcast-appeals-fcc-decision/ <-- on comcast.

also ya got RIAA suing dead people -- over copywrite... they won a huge amount of money per song.... and I might add, they do not forward this money to the artist. gasp.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080826-riaa-wins-p2p-case-after-defendant-reformats-hard-drive.html

<-- here the individual is punished even if he got rid of such a file.

if they could trademark a sunset- they would.

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