Posted by: Fester

Well, I’ve been saying it would happen for about a year now, and the time has finally arrived… Yahoo, MSN and more are finally getting into offering website publishers the opportunity to display revenue generating ads that are brokered by these giants. This is in direct competition with the Google AdSense program, and will help to benefit small website publishers as well as large…

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Posted by: Chester

My name is Chester and I am a googleholic. It has been 45 minutes since my last Google.

It all began innocently enough some years ago with simple searches about things I had a curiousity about - Early aviation experiments, shoreline erosion and mummification were all subjects that google willingly shared information on. I would stand by the water cooler for hours chatting with co-workers about all manner of interesting tidbits I found with Google. Folks would come and go, but I always had something new to talk about; always that sweet nugget of information that nobody else knew of. I spent many harmless hours expanding my information base. I say information base because it is not knowledge I have gathered from Google, but merely info. Happy, harmless fun searching for answers to my curiousity about things.

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Posted by: Chester

I don’t know much about evil, save for my wife’s uncle the Baptist minister, but if you ask me Google seems ok. I use it all the time for all sorts of really cool things and so does my wife and she certainly does not want to know bad news about Google being an evil Big Brother type of thing. She thinks I’m crazy for even considering such notions about such a charming and helpful online pal like Google …

Though it is odd how much time, energy and technology Google puts into ‘watching’ us surf and tracking our every online move. I mean why does Google need that info?

Does it help me directly find cheap+hotel+San Jose? No.

Does this behaviour help Google create a better user experience? Perhaps.

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Posted by: Fester

Yeah, that’s right! I said it - “Peeping in on your finances”.

Does the new Google Currency Converter actually peer into your financial ongoings?

Probably not - yet…

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Posted by: Fester

Let the war begin!! …or continue anyway…

“Them with the deepest pockets - usually wins, like, 90% of the time anyway…” - Fester

This will be a battle of the war chests, folks, with the deepest pockets pulling together the best people to stay one step ahead of - or crush - the competition…

Will MSN and Yahoo wise up? Could they leverage thier marketing buck by barking to the public - “Hey - OUR results are actually BETTER than thiers!”… and then actually DO SO, by offering free immediate inclusion (within days vs. sandbox) coupled with daily updates of thier databases to provide ‘better’ results than Google?

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Author:John Calder
© 2004, John Calder
http://www.TheEzine.net

Since Google announced their revenue-sharing Adsense program in mid-2003, Internet marketers and other webmasters alike have embraced the program wholeheartedly. For content-heavy, non-commercially oriented sites, Adsense revenue is a welcome way to help defer hosting and other costs of running their sites. For marketers, Adsense is yet another revenue stream to add to pages that may already contain affiliate links, info products, and so on. For many marketers, Adsense was the first time they realized that they could make money from pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, rather than just spend money on it!

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