GBuy: Moving to Pay per Conversion? February 7, 2006
(Visited 11782 times)PayPal Prepares For a Challenge From Google shows that the Google payments play is serious. From many accounts it seems that Google wants to beyond Pay Per Click and into Pay Per Conversion. The most feasible way of doing this is handling the payment.
What does this mean for the Pinoy publisher? For casual players, not good. If more advertisers opt to pay per conversion, then the effects will be worse than Smart Pricing. Pinoy publishers will not be paid at all if Pinoy viewers click but don’t buy. On the other hand, I think it is good for the …
Sandbox Detection Tips January 11, 2006
(Visited 18933 times)Randfish offers some sandbox detection tips anchored on SERP comparison of the 4 major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask). Basically, if the other 3 are in tune and Google’s not, you’re boxed.
Malware Targets AdSense Ads January 3, 2006
(Visited 17561 times)If you see adult-related ads being served by AdSense, it may be malware on your computer that’s serving those ads, not Google.
Techshout.com reports that a new, deceptive Trojan Horse program has surfaced. The program is engineered to produce fake Google ads that are formatted to look like legitimate ones. The ads are incorporated in Google AdSense, the program that lets website owners display ads from Google’s list of advertisers. The Trojan Horse apparently downloads itself onto an unsuspecting computer through a web page and then replaces the original ads with its own set of malicious ads.
Via JenSense.
AdWords on the Google Homepage
(Visited 18632 times)Brin/Page: Absolutely no ads on the Google homepage.
Google.by Country Manager: Sir, CTR from Belarus-based users are up the roof.
Brin/Page: AdWords ads are ok.
No Google PC After All
(Visited 9756 times)Rumors of a Google PC in 2006 are not true, according to Google blogger David Krane.
…we have a number of PC partners who serve their markets exceedingly well and we see no need to enter this market; we would rather partner with great companies.
More wild what’s-next-for-google musings here.
Going for $600?
(Visited 14554 times)One analyst predicts GOOG to reach $600 this year. Incredible?
Piper Jaffray jacked up its price target on the stock Tuesday to $600 from $445, saying the search engine is its top large-cap pick in the new year. The $600 forecast is 50 times Piper’s new pro forma 2007 earnings estimate of $11.91 a share. Its old forecast applied the 50 multiple to a 2006 pro forma estimate.
