{"id":21,"date":"2006-06-11T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T17:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/?p=21"},"modified":"2012-11-25T15:07:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-25T20:07:27","slug":"the-motley-fool-suggests-google-is-killing-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2006\/06\/11\/the-motley-fool-suggests-google-is-killing-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Motley Fool Suggests Google is &#8220;Killing the Internet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far this month there have been two noteworthy pieces written about click fraud and related issues.<\/p>\n<p>Dallas Mavericks owner <a href=\"http:\/\/blogmaverick.com\/2006\/06\/01\/why-i-think-clickfraud-is-far-greater-than-imagined\/\">Mark Cuban blogs that click fraud is &#8220;FAR greater&#8221; than imagined.<\/a> Quite an\u00a0interesting read and one coming from a wealthy Internet pioneer to boot. It&#8217;s clear that he has a strong opinion on this subject.<\/p>\n<p>The second article is\u00a0from <em>The Motley Fool<\/em> and is entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/news\/commentary\/2006\/commentary06060927.htm\">&#8220;How Google is Killing the Internet&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While I encourage everyone to read the article thoroughly, here are some interesting quotes from Seth&#8217;s article:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Markets don&#8217;t correct without competition and information, and I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s enough of either here to make a difference. Yet.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know the answers &#8212; or even all of the questions. But if this problem is as bad as some fear, it could eventually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/archive\/14.01\/fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\">put a major crimp<\/a> in Google&#8217;s entire revenue model, if not the entire pay-per-click business. I would argue that the explosion of link farms and spamblogs is pretty decent evidence that the click-fraud biz is not only alive and well, but also thriving at the expense of all of us. Except Google. For now, anyway.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to see such high profile articles or blog posts on these topics. It will be interesting to see where this goes from here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far this month there have been two noteworthy pieces written about click fraud and related issues. Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban blogs that click fraud is &#8220;FAR greater&#8221; than imagined. Quite an\u00a0interesting read and one coming from a wealthy Internet pioneer to boot. It&#8217;s clear that he has a strong opinion on this subject. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-goog","category-microsoft-msft","category-search-engine-marketing","category-yahoo-yhoo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}