[News] Google AdWords campaign targeting http://www.squeak.org

Yanni Chiu yanni at rogers.com
Fri Nov 24 16:40:12 UTC 2006


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).




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