Slightly interesting google antitrust article

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Originally Posted by elKabong

Definitely sounds like the guy got screwed around by Google, but several hundred thousand dollars to change a landing page???

I think he either got really screwed over by his webmaster/web designer, or he isn't being entirely truthful. |confused|

Originally Posted by Bill

Although the company never told Mr. Savage what, precisely, was wrong with his landing page quality, it offered some suggestions for improvement, including running fewer AdSense ads and manually typing in the addresses and phone numbers of the 600,000 companies in his directory, even though their Web sites were just a click away. At a cost of several hundred thousand dollars, he made some of the changes Google suggested. No improvement.

Do the math: $200k / 600k = 33¢ per listing

Now myself, I would have done a little PHP script to create "HTML" pages. Computer generated(CRON job), but they don't appear to be dynamic, or database driven.

Google & their over-priced minimum bids have been going for quite some time.