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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by spullara on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:53AM (#18567271)
We did that at Bagcheck in 2010. It was super common. They may have taken your idea and ran with it but it wasn't a novel idea. Generally though, at scale, you run into problems with the affiliate programs and they cut you off.
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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by StudentStuff on Friday November 30, 2018 @04:26AM (#18567835)
Is affiliate stuffing adding any value? In most cases, it doesn't seem to drive more customers towards the business paying the affiliate commission.
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Re:Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview by spullara on Friday November 30, 2018 @04:36PM (#18572881)
It might. For example, it was one of the potential revenue sources for Bagcheck to keep it running such that people could post their product reviews to the service. Without that revenue it is possible it isn't feasible to run the service and that would decrease the number of reviews pointing to them which could reduce the number of sales they get.
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