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| Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse                  |
|   from the put-down-that-pin dept.                                 |
|   posted by kdawson on Wednesday July 23, @08:06 (The Almighty Buck|
|   http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/23/0152202 |
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[0]David Barrett writes “If you sell three billion ads a month and can’t
break even, what do you do? [1]Drop prices by 40% and switch business
models, apparently. Is this an isolated incident, or does it contribute
to the growing pile of evidence that ad inventory is overpriced
industry-wide, with Google being the worst offender due to its policy of
requiring [2]minimum bids on keywords that would otherwise go for cheap?
[3]Check out this analysis on my blog and make up your own mind.”

Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/07/23/0152202

Links:
0. http://quinthar.com/
1. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/22/are-facebook-ads-going-to-zero-lookery-lowers-its-gaurantee-to-75-cent-cpms/
2. http://www.apogee-web-consulting.com/blogger/2008/05/google-adwords-auction-has-hidden.html
3. http://blog.quinthar.com/2008/07/second-collapse-of-internet-economy.html