Comments on: Google ads bring their rewards

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:53:51 +0000

Adblock extension for Firefox, anyone??

By: Songwriter

Songwriter — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:38:55 +0000

“Google has come out with a special kind of corporate DRM (Digital Restrictions Management),” p2pnet posted on Tuesday, going on its YouTube launched an application, “it claims will automatically remove copyrighted clips”.

Lets analyze this and see how it works. Iam an independent artist and songwriter. I make and sell my own records, with my own songs.

Someone includes my songs in a video, without my authorization. That someone, the pirate, places the video on YouTube.

Surely the pirate will not ask YouTube to filter out copies of his own videos because he/she caanot be be against infringement, because he/she is an infringer.

I, on the other hand will not ask YouTube to filter out copies of the video, as that would require me to send YouTube a copy of the video, and that would make me an infringer for copying a video without authorization of the owner of the video. The fact I own the song in the video does not make me the owner of the video, right?

Also I cannot send YouTube a recording for YouTube to compare any video against it for filtering purposes.

By now, Iam loosing my train of thought. Can anyone explain why? Will anyone catch the pirate?

By: David

David — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:02:53 +0000

Google ads don’t annoy me much.

By: The Angry Offender

The Angry Offender — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:33:09 +0000

The one reason I never use Internet advertising like Google’s is because it relies on annoying or tricking the user. Most Internet users “black out” ads like Google ads unless they’re tricked into clicking them, through search results with ads embedded like they’re legit results or otherwise, and when they DO click on them, they realize they’ve been had and back out. The click brings the money into Google’s pockets, but the click doesn’t necessarily end in a sale, so what good is it to the advertising business that paid Google in the first place? Has ANYONE had major success with Google ads? How long before Google’s ads permeate the extents of the Internet to the point that people learn to black them out entirely, and Google’s ad profits begin a race to the bottom?

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:06:41 +0000

Google ads might bring their own rewards but it has turned their search engine into a piece of crap. When you search for something, get 10 pages and the first 6 are ads, not the subject matter you are looking for, that makes it worse than useless.

I’ve dropped google because its service is now serving ads, not information.