Nice discussion. For the record I've only clicked on a GOOG ad maybe once just out of guilt. Then the guilt just vanished. Since then never. Never even look at them. Most of the people I ask never click on them either. Who the hell clicks on those things?
One thing to hit earnings will be the lack of all those sub-prime housing ads. But this is too risky for me to play.
constant intraday lows for google today, if hpq doesnt do well tonight it will most likey drag google below 500 tomorrow.
yes this is the impression i get that NO ONE really pays attention to these. when i see an interesting ad, and below it says ads by google, i immediately wave it off because i know the quality of those links are crap most of the time. but it sucks for the advertisers, not for google. they make so much money from these ads....but imo, i think facebook can make much much more....and its just beginning.
It is not because YOU don't click on those ads that A LOT of people do It is estimated that out of the 1 billion daily searches on Google about 10 % convert to clicks on those fu..... ads If you believe those advertisers aren't making money out of that traffic, think again...
I am thinking again, and I still can't come up with any plausible reason for an internet suearch provider to be trading at a market cap of $150 billion +. IT'S JUST A SEARCH ENGINE!