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http://begthequestion.info/
It's easier to change what the minority thinks it means than what the majority thinks it means.
AKA "I'd rather be popular than be right"
We Have Been De-googled
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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same with my blog. It appears on search, but one day they decided something fishy was going on with the ads and simply terminated the service. The automated e-mail said I could appeal and the appeal resulted in a "yes, it pretty much was something fishy" automated message. No further information, just silence and a warning that they would ignore messages about this subject from that point on. AdSense needs competitio…
I don't know if this helps, but a search for adsense competition (on google no less) brought up the following: http://www.associateprograms.com/articles/208/1/Adsense-Comp... Which has a list of different things like adsense you could use. Out of curiousity, is there any reason why you can't switch to using these companies for advertisement? I can see how google has a complete monopoly on ad-words, but surely adsense…
They don't pay nearly as well, from what I've heard.
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#63Caution, monopoly at work.
Google is not a monopoly. You can go elsewhere for your ads, email, and search. If Google starts sucking even a little bit, other people will do the same, and Google's market influence will decrease even further.
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#64Perhaps instead of jumping on the de-Google bandwagon, they should jump on the website-design-that-works-in-all-browsers bandwagon so they don't steer readers away due to their blatant incompetence.
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#65All of the articles I've seen thus far on studiobriefing.net are scraped verbatim from another source, assumedly celebrifi.com. This is against Google's terms of service, and this activity is likely to result in a ban. Instead of whining about how Google is persecuting an innocent website, these guys should have an honest discussion among themselves about what they are trying to do with the website and why their acti…
Yes.
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Google is not required to provide customer service. If "SEO" is important to you, I recommend rereading Google's terms of service and landing page quality guidelines. Google Webmaster Tools is the best way to get feedback on your particular site, though I don't recommend using it on every site in your network.
Yeah, I'll just take my business elsewhere... oh wait.
Since we're focused on Google, logically the best strategic decision is to accept that you can't change the terrain on the battlefield, and adapt your strategy accordingly.
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#67Caution, monopoly at work.
Google is not a monopoly. You can go elsewhere for your ads, email, and search. If Google starts sucking even a little bit, other people will do the same, and Google's market influence will decrease even further.
From a consumer's point of view, yes, that's true. It's easy to switch to a different email provider or a different search engine.
From an advertiser's point of view, that is just not the case. Advertisers are forced to use Google, because that's what an overwhelming majority of consumers use. The alternative is to be crushed by your competition.
It's interesting to me that so many of Google's paying customers complain about them, and so many of their non-paying customers love them. Isn't that backwards?
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#68Studio Brief had a much more prominent place on IMDB in the news section. It consists on little snippets of news about the entertainment industry. For an example entry: http://www.studiobriefing.net/studiobriefing.net/FILM_NEWS/E... The page has a title, selectable text article, ad column to right, and user comments. It is much like a digg page (heavier on article, less clutter). The only real thing I see wrong with…
The page looks completely empty to me without JavaScript, except for some small parts of the navigation. That might be an additional point.
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I'll just take my business elsewhere... oh wait.
Since we're focused on Google, logically the best strategic decision is to accept that you can't change the terrain on the battlefield, and adapt your strategy accordingly.
Or follow the rules of the agreement in good faith, which appears to be challenge for some folks.
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#70This seems really similar to the recent posting about Craigslist shutting off someones yahoo pipes based proto-business. CL and Google seem to be trying to prevent what I would call parasitical bottom feeding businesses from leveraging their service. And these said businesses are whining about it.
So, well, good riddance -- when I search for "Courtney Love," the last thing I want is to have a stupid re-aggregator like studiobriefing.net...