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Re:Tim O'Reilly: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All by known on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @10:14AM (#421986)
Isn't PageRank a type of Ponzi scheme?
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All by justindz on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @12:19PM (#422135)
A Ponzi scheme is where new investors pay returns to existing investors, but there is no actual trade made using the income.

EDIT: Oops. Explained adsense. Too much multi-tasking. Irrelevant anyway, since PageRank does not have any of the above characteristics.

Per prior comments, everything is not suddenly a Ponzi scheme.

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Re:Tim O'Reilly: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All by jwesley on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @12:09PM (#422116)
PageRank is a tool used to rank web pages in search results. But maybe Google is a Ponzi scheme. Users create all the content, Google sells all the ads!
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Re:Tim O'Reilly: The Biggest Ponzi Scheme of Them All by llimllib on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @01:40PM (#422219)
<Brain Explodes>

Not everything is a dang Ponzi Scheme! Sheesh.

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