Comments on: Beating Google? http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080515/cuban-2/ from other Web sites Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Norbert Mayer-Wittmann http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080515/cuban-2/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Norbert Mayer-Wittmann Fri, 16 May 2008 04:07:54 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080515/cuban-2/#comment-283 I am very happy that allthingsd.com is moderating a discussion about Mr. Cuban's blog post. I commented on Mr. Cuban's post, but my comment was removed from the post without any statement whatsoever concerning the censorship (at least Tim O'Reilly was honest enough to note that he was "confused" by Indian domain names when he removed my comment last year -- see http://www.aboutus.org/OReilly.com ). I have now posted a question on my own blog -- which, if Mr. Cuban is a "maverick", will probably note -- along with all the other mavericks (including e.g. the "cluetrain" gang) -- is interconnected with his own blog (since Google is such a rockin' machine ;P). However, in case hasn't found it yet (for the simple reason that Google mostly indexes old, archived documents rather than newer, "live" information), here is a link to my blog post asking why Mr. Cuban censored my comment: http://gaggle.info/post/48/why-did-mark-cuban-remove-my-comment-from-his-blog-post I invite any/all participation, as I would really like to know what was so "wrong" with my comment that it motivated Mr. Cuban to censor it. Thank you for your consideration, and I hope you will be able to help me understand Mr. Cuban's reasoning. :) nmw I am very happy that allthingsd.com is moderating a discussion about Mr. Cuban’s blog post.

I commented on Mr. Cuban’s post, but my comment was removed from the post without any statement whatsoever concerning the censorship (at least Tim O’Reilly was honest enough to note that he was “confused” by Indian domain names when he removed my comment last year — see http://www.aboutus.org/OReilly.com ).

I have now posted a question on my own blog — which, if Mr. Cuban is a “maverick”, will probably note — along with all the other mavericks (including e.g. the “cluetrain” gang) — is interconnected with his own blog (since Google is such a rockin’ machine ;P).

However, in case hasn’t found it yet (for the simple reason that Google mostly indexes old, archived documents rather than newer, “live” information), here is a link to my blog post asking why Mr. Cuban censored my comment:

http://gaggle.info/post/48/why.....-blog-post

I invite any/all participation, as I would really like to know what was so “wrong” with my comment that it motivated Mr. Cuban to censor it.

Thank you for your consideration, and I hope you will be able to help me understand Mr. Cuban’s reasoning.

:) nmw

]]> By: Danny DeMichele http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080515/cuban-2/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Danny DeMichele Thu, 15 May 2008 17:15:48 +0000 http://voices.allthingsd.com/20080515/cuban-2/#comment-282 I believe that Google is hurting itself with its ad model. As an example, do a search for the term "smartcar" and click on all the sponsored search results. 70% of them are websites that display “ads by Google” on them. I understand that this is a good revenue model now, to get paid twice from one visitor, but studies we have been doing show that people are flat out sick of seeing "ads by google" littered across the web. They are going to do to themselves what Alta Vista, Yahoo, Excite did to themselves by killing their ad revenue platform by displaying too many banners and deterring people from clicking on them. Their organic search results are still the best, but I do believe they will eventually start losing market share due to people getting sick of seeing them. I believe that Google is hurting itself with its ad model. As an example, do a search for the term “smartcar” and click on all the sponsored search results. 70% of them are websites that display “ads by Google” on them. I understand that this is a good revenue model now, to get paid twice from one visitor, but studies we have been doing show that people are flat out sick of seeing “ads by google” littered across the web.

They are going to do to themselves what Alta Vista, Yahoo, Excite did to themselves by killing their ad revenue platform by displaying too many banners and deterring people from clicking on them.

Their organic search results are still the best, but I do believe they will eventually start losing market share due to people getting sick of seeing them.

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