Comments on: Chinese Search Engine Enjoys Massive IPO http://donklephant.com/2005/08/05/chinese-search-engine-ipo-massive-success/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:03:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Nortius Maximus http://donklephant.com/2005/08/05/chinese-search-engine-ipo-massive-success/comment-page-1/#comment-984 Nortius Maximus Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:32:09 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/08/05/chinese-search-engine-ipo-massive-success/#comment-984 Crazy stuff indeed. clikclickCLIK. It's not exactly monkeys banging out Shakespeare (in the sense of ignorant or curious people producing value), but the latter practice you describe does sound like death-of-a-thousand-cuts, a Chinese classic. OT: Thanks for the welcome on my blog, BTW. Do drop in from time to time. One of my big regrets is that I've discovered that blogger/blogspot doesn't do trackbacks. Nort Crazy stuff indeed. clikclickCLIK. It’s not exactly monkeys banging out Shakespeare (in the sense of ignorant or curious people producing value), but the latter practice you describe does sound like death-of-a-thousand-cuts, a Chinese classic.

OT: Thanks for the welcome on my blog, BTW. Do drop in from time to time. One of my big regrets is that I’ve discovered that blogger/blogspot doesn’t do trackbacks.

Nort

]]> By: Justin Gardner http://donklephant.com/2005/08/05/chinese-search-engine-ipo-massive-success/comment-page-1/#comment-974 Justin Gardner Sat, 06 Aug 2005 18:51:59 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/08/05/chinese-search-engine-ipo-massive-success/#comment-974 I'm betting 2010 since these companies are making a TON of money right now on pay-per-click (PPC) ads. However, some studies have shown that nearly 30% of the clicks on those ads are actually acts of fraud, meaning they're either being done by somebody on their own site trying to drive up their own Adsense dollars from Google (a very small percentage) or competitors clicking on rivals ads so they'll have to pay Google more money. Some go so far as to hire actual teams of people in India to click on competitors ads. Crazy stuff. We shall see. I’m betting 2010 since these companies are making a TON of money right now on pay-per-click (PPC) ads. However, some studies have shown that nearly 30% of the clicks on those ads are actually acts of fraud, meaning they’re either being done by somebody on their own site trying to drive up their own Adsense dollars from Google (a very small percentage) or competitors clicking on rivals ads so they’ll have to pay Google more money. Some go so far as to hire actual teams of people in India to click on competitors ads. Crazy stuff. We shall see.

]]> By: Nortius Maximus http://donklephant.com/2005/08/05/chinese-search-engine-ipo-massive-success/comment-page-1/#comment-967 Nortius Maximus Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:46:09 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2005/08/05/chinese-search-engine-ipo-massive-success/#comment-967 Will 2006 or perhaps 2010 be the time for their .bomb to go off, N years after our 'net "tulip craze" tanked? Too soon to tell. But a balloon has certainly gone up... Thanks for this notice. Nort Will 2006 or perhaps 2010 be the time for their .bomb to go off, N years after our ‘net “tulip craze” tanked? Too soon to tell. But a balloon has certainly gone up… Thanks for this notice.

Nort

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