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The innovation of Google in online advertising


Today (as every day) I got up with a main goal: don’t login on my blog :) but after checking my feeds aggregator, I found an interesting article about google and online advertising.

And now I am here writing something about that great article:

All innovation looks inevitable, except while it’s happening.

Google introduced clickthrough rate, as a measure of the ad’s relevance, into the ranking algorithm. So if an ad with a lower bid per click got clicked more often, it would rank higher.

The result — a lower bid ad with more clicks generated more revenue than a higher bid ad with fewer clicks.

That “economy” turned Google into the great money-making machine that it is today.

What’s notable is that Google didn’t invent search or auction-based pay-per-click advertising — their innovation was perfecting it.

This is a ‘must be read’ article.
What next then?
Will it be with the Semantic Web?

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Internet and the surveillance society


An amazing article from guardian.co.uk about internet and the surveillance society.

Shadbolt says the risks of data spillage are greater than we’re led to believe: ‘”If you keep within the law, and the government keeps within the law, and its employees keep within the law, and the computer holding the database doesn’t screw up, and the system is carefully designed according to well-understood software engineering principles and maintained properly, and the government doesn’t scrimp on the outlay and all the data are entered carefully and the police are adequately trained to use the system and the system isn’t hacked into, and your identity isn’t stolen, and the local hardware functions, well, you have nothing to fear.”

Read this article in guardian.co.uk : Our surveillance society goes online