24 Nov
2006
24 Nov
'06
5:40 p.m.
Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
I run my squeak.org campaign now for 36 hours, during which their CPC bid was raised from pennies to bucks, between a factor of 50 and 100. My pockets are not deep enough to compete against Google's own ads, sorry ;-)
Yikes! IMHO, that behaviour borders (if not crosses) the line on rigging the game - sort of like a casino modifying the odds to ensure the players always lose. In this case, they let the market find the hotspots to advertise, then they outbid you, and there's no way you can compete with their bid (as you found out).