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To: DeaconBenjamin

It’s about time. Google makes many billions of dollars selling ads for views of content that other people created. Then they make more selling data about everyone that looks at that content, or the accompanying ads. We used to call that “free-riding”, or worse.


14 posted on 11/01/2014 12:39:10 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

“Google makes many billions of dollars selling ads for views of content that other people created. Then they make more selling data about everyone that looks at that content, or the accompanying ads.”

This isn’t going to work like you think.

But it will be instructive to watch from a distance.


16 posted on 11/01/2014 12:46:58 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Life is good.)
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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA

It’s about time. Google makes many billions of dollars selling ads for views of content that other people created.

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OTOH, there is economic value to be listed in Google results.


22 posted on 11/01/2014 1:12:35 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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