Living with the surveillance state

Posted Nov 1, 2013 9:50 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Living with the surveillance state by klbrun
Parent article: Living with the surveillance state

Of course. Was there any doubt? When Google just started effectiveness of ads on it's search pages was off-the-charts. It was ten or maybe hundred times more effective then TV ads (per dollar spent). Of course such thing brought marketing guys in droves, ads filled less and less relevant pages and effectiveness of ads went down. Guess what exactly limits said process? Right: other forms of advertisement. Internet spending grows till it starts wasting more or less the same percentage as other mediums.

This, again, shows how wrong drag is: short-term cheaters win, but medium-term mediums with better metrics win (and long-term we are all dead which makes this case not very interesting).