Why I am building a product with a tiny market

Re:Why I am building a product with a tiny market by frakkingcylons on Saturday April 27, 2013 @09:16PM (#5619767)

That's true only if a site strictly uses a contextual advertising system. Most high-traffic sites sell specific ad space and time (AKA an ad campaign) to the highest bidder in order to supplement their normal advertising network.

Even if Wikipedia used the most unobtrusive, low-key advertising system possible, people would still react negatively because Wikipedia is known for having no advertising whatsoever.

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Re:Why I am building a product with a tiny market by downandout on Saturday April 27, 2013 @10:08PM (#5619872)

Contextual alone would completely eliminate their need for panhandling, and would also enable drastic improvements to their infrastructure. Better for users, better for everyone.

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Re:Why I am building a product with a tiny market by lsc on Sunday April 28, 2013 @02:44AM (#5620420)

>Contextual alone would completely eliminate their need for panhandling, and would also enable drastic improvements to their infrastructure. Better for users, better for everyone.

maybe? but compare wikipedia's uptime to, say, twitter or reddit. Advertising dollars do not always make for reasonable Engineering decisions. (I'm not saying that advertising causes twitter or reddit to go down often; but they both get dramatically more revenue per user. I mean, dramatically more revenue per user, and they both have terrible uptime vs. wikipedia.)

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Re:Why I am building a product with a tiny market by shrughes on Sunday April 28, 2013 @11:06AM (#5621455)

I don't know about that, Wikipedia was down for a whole day last year.

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