A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when Google took away their business model.

Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by huhtenberg on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @01:10PM (#227695)

Article in short:

  Geosign was doing "search arbitrage", which meant buying
  keywords from Google and filling their landing pages with
  ads from other providers (e.g. Yahoo).

  Google didn't like that. The end.

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by bprater on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @03:05PM (#227810)

Man, can I hire you so I can surf about 90% less everyday?

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by hugh on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @06:56PM (#228034)

Can anyone explain why the comment in this subthread by keating is marked as "[dead]"? What does that mean?

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by allenbrunson on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @07:55PM (#228076)

"dead" means "killed by a yc editor." somebody with some authority around here thought the comment was extremely inappropriate, trolling, spam, etc

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by hugh on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @08:18PM (#228093)

Hmm, so why doesn't it just get deleted?

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by allenbrunson on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @08:35PM (#228101)

generally speaking, they are. if you don't want to see them, set the "showdead" parameter in your profile to "no." i assume they're kept around in zombie state for forensic purposes.

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by rms on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @08:35PM (#228100)

So people can't cry "censorship"

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by lolb on Thursday June 26, 2008 @11:56AM (#228720)

But it's still censorship?

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by mynameishere on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @06:44PM (#228027)

The purpose of feature writing is to tell a complete story, not provide data as fast as possible.

War and Peace in short:

  Napoleon invades. Gets kicked out.

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by immad on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @05:30PM (#227970)

That article took a long time to get to the point.

It was still interesting.

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by tbone28 on Thursday June 26, 2008 @12:01AM (#228238)

THANK YOU! I could not even read the whole thing. I just got done watching 10,000 BC and guess I am not in the mood for another epic.

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by lakeeffect on Thursday June 26, 2008 @02:33AM (#228330)

Seriously, can i get a feed of your Articles in Short.

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Re:A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when G... by TrevorJ on Thursday June 26, 2008 @10:11AM (#228603)

Frikkin' A. that's the last time I read th article BEFORE I look at the comments. Could have saved myself 10 minutes.

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