Posts Tagged ‘google’
How a startup blew $160M trying to game the search engines
Posted: 19 March 2008 in TechnologyTags: Advertising, google
There is a fascinating article in the Canadian Financial Post on Geosign, a company that took in $160M in venture capital funding in March 2007 only to fall apart a year later because their business model consisted of gaming the search engines, known as “search arbitrage” which is nothing more than sending people who click [...]
Jason Calacanis on Internet pollution and how to stop it
Posted: 29 December 2007 in TechnologyTags: Advertising, blogger, calacanis, evan williams, godin, google, mahalo, sifry, spam, splogs
Jason Calacanis, founder of Mahalo (the human-powered search engine) gave one of the best presentations at the Le Web 3.0 conference in Paris which took place from December 11-12, 2007. Jason’s presentation was entitled “Internet Pollution and How to Stop It”. He points out that much of the content on the Internet is spam and [...]
