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Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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Re: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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Very smart, but is it against the TOS to bid directly on the trademark/company name? Often times it is. That being said, they likely will not care with you being an extremely small player and bringing them 32 new customers. Solid Hack, congrats edit - CPC are going sky high after this :-) people might want to wait for a few weeks to let others forget

There are protected trademarks that are registered with Google that are protected in their system but even then, I believe the rule is you cannot use the trademark in your ad copy but you can still target the term in you list. In many mature industries, the major players have reciprocal agreements in place with their suppliers and even with competitors to not bid on branded/trademarked terms.

Re: Maxing out your Dropbox referrals (how I got 16GB for less than $10)

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Erm, am I missing something, is there a reason why dropbox seems to be inhabiting the top of hackernews today? Is there an IPO in the offing that I've missed? Why the sudden PR offensive?

This Forbes article, mostly: http://viewtext.org/article?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%...
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