Google: raking in the dollars
p2pnet.net news:- You can’t escape it, online or off.
Advertising, that is.
And, “Ad familiarity breeds content for Google,” is the way the Financial Times sums sums it up.
“A growing familiarity with search engine advertising in international markets, including a new burst of growth in the UK, contributed to another quarter of outperformance at Google, figures released on Thursday showed,” says the story.
After subtracting advertising commissions, Google’s revenue totaled $2.53 billion, says Associated Press.
“That amount was about $40 million more than analyst estimates.”
Also See:
Financial Times – Ad familiarity breeds content for Google, April 19, 2006
Associated Press – Google profit up 69%; Internet giant’s earnings hit $1 billion, April 20, 2007
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April 20th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
“That amount was about $40 million more than analyst estimates.”
40 million. That’s a lot alright.
Let’s not forget that a Billion is ONE THOUSAND MILLION.
One thing is for sure. “Google: raking in the dollars”
April 20th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Of course you can escape advertising online, it’s easy.
1. Use a browswer that can be set to block pop-ups.
2. Turn off the automatic loading of pictures, which will stop a lot of basic banner ads.
3. Turn off or disable your flash and other multimedia plugins.
4. Use a firewall that allows you to enter the url of ad servers to be blocked.
5. Ads gone. 99% of ads get blocked always and the other 1% get added to the block list of my firewall and never get seen twice.
Sure i can’t visit websites that use flash to navigate around, but only morons use flash to do that anyway and i’ve found perhaps 5 sites like that in about 13 years of surfing the net. I think i can live with those odds.
Oh and if you play a pc game that uses ingame advertising, try and find out the url of the ad server and then use your firewall to block it. No more ingame ads either. It’s not like seeing those ads is saving you any money.