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And how did it get to #5?

I quit as CEO of my last company because some of my venture capitalists were intimating they wanted to do this.

There's a bunch of MD5 search engines with rainbow tables etc. plugged in, it could tap into that easily as well.

Errr their market size calculation assumes everyone going to a wedding pays 28k??

They probably make more money from ads by autocorrecting.

It's not a popped collar. It's a high collar.

But of course, haven't had the same growth.

They actually started just before 99 I believe.

I don't think this is an accurate representation of what is going on because market share is not being taken from the others.

You have an error with your PhD stats.

Well that's the end of the camera industry.

If they do this deal it's because they see Amazon as a threat.

Chances are you were the 4th guy to pitch the same idea to them. I worked briefly as a VC and you would be surprised by the number of times you saw roughly the same business plan come in.

If you're going after a big market, you're going to have competitors. No competitors, no market.

Being an Australian startup early on is great because there's a number of programs to get easy cash, including AusIndustry CommercialReady which can get you a CPI-indexed loan for $1-2m.

1) You can do subscriptions with Paypal 2) Moneybookers is an alternative which is easier to set up and cheaper

When you get big you can use someone like GlobalCollect or Cybersource.

RC circuits or delay lines

Horrible audio.

Yes but I think Google possibly are being disingenuous here. Yes its negatively impacted by some search quality improvements, but is it NETT negatively impacted, or is it also positively impacted as well.

After all, you are displaying ads that someone has paid for, so if someone isn't clicking on them, then maybe the content is no good for the ads (ie poor quality). Likewise you can tell by how much someone will bid on the keyword how valuable the content is.

So use Adsense at your own peril? Add Google ads and risk being deprioritised in search rankings if they decide they are not making enough money?

Now we know how Panda determined low quality sites. They looked at the click through rate and cpc rates for adsense ads. If the market didn't click on the ads google served, then they mustn't have been relevant to the content (or more importantly, the content isn't relevant to the ad. IE it's low quality. Furthermore, if the market wasn't prepare d to pay much for the ad, it must be for content that's low value.

Basically, google has redirected traffic from low paying adsense pages to high paying adsense pages for those keywords.

Our site was hit hard with the last panda update, losing 30 percent of our traffic. We have two main types of pages that are quite similar which constitute our site.

Which pages were hit? Only one had google ads on it. Those pages were hit, the others were untouched.

So in their efforts to steal revenue from their partners the corollary is now true:

Put google ads on your site and run the risk of getting deranked.

I call bullshit.

Go out to a nightclub and pop some ecstasy. You'll get over the social anxiety pretty quickly.

I just put my site into compete.com and the graph looked the same, with a drop off since august 2010, while our traffic has been steadily climbing.

Find some new investors and pay to play him.