Re:4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
by toyg on Monday October 17, 2011 @10:59PM
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If it's worth a few billions to Facebook, it's worth a few billions to Google.
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Re:4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
by william42 on Monday October 17, 2011 @11:08PM
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That's not true; the law of diminishing returns applies.
Re:4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
by egiva on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @03:35AM
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In this case the law of diminishing returns is offset by the massive movement from TV-based advertising to web-based advertising. As long as TV loses add dollars, there will be plenty of "rising tide" to lift both Facebook and Google in terms of increased advertising revenues.
On the flip side, that's a confounding factor that makes it hard to compare Facebook to Google in terms of some type of battle for advertising dollars. For the time being they should both see revenue growth, irregardless of who does a better job.
Re:4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
by GrahamL on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @02:37AM
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How? Advertisers are always looking to show targeted ads
Re:4chan's Chris Poole: Facebook & Google Are Doing It Wrong
by archiloque on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @03:24AM
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Perhaps if several social sites offer targeted ads with the same level of precision it may decrease the ads' prices since the ads budget won't grow accordingly ? (then it would mean that people are using several services at the same time and not migrating from one to another)