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For this day (17 May), does it mean that they will pay for April 1-30 earnings, or for May (1-18) also?
Run FOREST, Run
My hunch is that Google already made their list of which heads would roll weeks ago. Doubt there's much those on the list can do about it at this point except enjoy the sunset.
Well, that was the case before Tivo :)
Chip-
It would be foolish on google's part to risk overreaching right away. It's much better to do this gradually, yet let the panic cause some self policing. It would not surprise me to see them sending out a batch of emails each month till they reach the balance point they desire.
What's interesting is this "arbitrage" practice has been going on with TV for decades - networks are always pushing their own shows on their own stations hoping to get you to watch even more ads with the new show.
That's something altogether different. The kind of click arbitrage that we're talking about here is the pure flipping of traffic.
To use a better analogy:
Pure click arbitrage = buying a house cheap and putting it on the market for more than you paid.
Acceptable click arbitrage (using the term "click arbitrage" in its loosest possible meaning) = buying a house cheap, adding value by renovating it, and putting it on the market for more than you paid.
It's the first kind of click arbitrage that annoys users, has a potentially negative effect on AdSense network clickthrough rates, and therefore isn't likely to sit well with Google.
To be fair and balanced, it sat well for many years, let's not gloss that over or forget. The more accurate statement should be,
It is no longer likely to sit well with Google.
[edited by: martinibuster at 6:53 pm (utc) on May 20, 2007]
Can I clean my filter yet of all this flotsam?
I wonder if Google has accepted the advice that many of us have no doubt sent them, to look at the contents of all of our filters and to send a human to inspect the sites that were filtered by a large number of publishers?
As to MFA's there is a perverse glee, which many here seem to share, that those who created appalling sites and raked in the money, as opposed to those who created useful content full sites and starved, are finally getting what they deserve.
I have to applaud the poster who quit his MFA when he saw the end ahead for MFA's, that takes guts to turn down 'free' money.
The rest were not only MFAs using Yahoo & others for their content less pages but also schemers, down loaders, e-mail harvesters and just general flotsam of the Internet that I don't want on my site.
While this change will alleviate one type of problem it won't address the rest of the garbage that's out there.
My filter will probably stay full :-(
Quote: 'Comrades, first of all a little apology. The report on the organization of the parties, the methods and content of their work, was assigned to me only in the course of the last week; consequently there was a certain delay in dealing with it, and it was also not possible to finish revising the Theses in an entirely regular way. You must also pardon me if-since this assignment was given only last week-I could not carry it out comprehensively or thoroughly. The report I have to give is, by virtue of its subject, very extensive. I am to discuss not just the organizational tasks, but also the methods and content of work, and likewise the organizational structure of the ….. and its relationship to the different parties-'
so it is 1921, same thought, CAP........, Just a though, WHAT MADE you think your are any special?
