Slightly interesting google antitrust article

tickler · 2008-09-14, 02:21 PM

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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|

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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.

elKabong · 2008-09-14, 04:26 PM

He should have invested a little of that "$115,000 a month" in a decent script and outsourced the data entry to India or the Philippines.

I can see Google's point though: a lot of, if not most, link lists and tgps won't allow submitters to use their outgoing links to go to another link list/tgp instead of sponsors. Google should have just told him upfront and not screwed him around.

2008-09-14, 04:26 PM	#2
elKabong And Lord, we are especially thankful for nuclear power, the cleanest, safest energy source there is. Except for solar, which is just a pipe dream Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Kansas City Posts: 225	He should have invested a little of that "$115,000 a month" in a decent script and outsourced the data entry to India or the Philippines. I can see Google's point though: a lot of, if not most, link lists and tgps won't allow submitters to use their outgoing links to go to another link list/tgp instead of sponsors. Google should have just told him upfront and not screwed him around.