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Originally Posted by datatank
Google runs the largest affiliate program on the web. You simple can not ignore that
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and other than their adwords/adsense program (awesome, no doubt), where are their other streams of revenue?
Imagine this: Yahoo or MSFT decide to go to war with GOOG.
first target, their publisher network.
YAHOO decides to go ahead and take a loss on their publisher network business and payout %140 to publishers. How long do you think current adsense users would stick around before flocking to Yahoo?
yahoo could do it, because they have many MANY streams of income. Google has ONE. If they steal Goog's publisher program, that's - what - 20-25% of Goog's income? (i haven't read the 10q, so i may be wrong).
And as I stated before, other than their search engine and advertising platform, what else have they really done? they hired 50 jillion PHds and we got 'Google Co-Op'
feh