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I just found out that whenever you search for something and
click on the sponsored link, the sponsors pay anywhere between
a few cents to $30 dollars. YES $30 dollars, that means I
have the power to waste $30 per click even if I'm not interested
in that company. So I have a suggestion for all of you bored
Green Peace liberals with nothing else to do. Search for
Republicans and start clicking on "Republican Dating" or
"The Republican Store" or any site that supports the GOP. Now
that you are empowered to bankrupt their internet funding,
spread this message to all of your hippy friends now!
\_ Sorry, it didn't work that way many years ago when I was at a
ad based company. I'm certain it doesn't now. No one is paying
$30 for a click through. They would pay $30 for an actual signup
with a real CC# attached though. For the click throughs (which
were measured in $/1000 clicks in my day) we only got paid for
real clicks after the logs went to a third party service for
'cleaning'. You can't honestly believe you're the first person
to have ever thought of inflating someone else's costs with fake
clicks? Anyway, as a philosophical/political thing, if your
philosophy was so great you wouldn't need to try 'dirty tricks'
to win. Your philosophy should stand on it's own merit at the
ballot box.
\- if you want to cost the Rs real money you have to be less
lazy. one thing you might do is see if the cash checks for
1cent. if you get pre paind fund raising englvelopes from
them keep sentind them 1cent checks [i get free checks].
that's a suggestion that doesnt involve leaving the house.
you might also put like glitter in the envelope. i assume that
is not illegal. yes, i know this doesnt cost them real money
but it might deliver psychic satisfaction. i also realize
it may not be the R machine processing these checks so you
will have to decide if it is appropriate to fill the office
of a R contractor with hard to get rid of glitter. anyway,
this is after about 30 seconds of thought. i am sure i could
come up with something better, but yeah, there is a no free
lunch aspect to this. i certainly have no problem mailing
empty prepaid envelopes back in cases of unsolicited junk
i dont like. i guess you can look at their return addresses
and subscribe them to gay vacation advertising lists etc.
\- oh, you also may be better off trying to disrupt a small
unit ... like say infiltrating the BCR etc.
\_ Having spent a summer working on ads analysis at Google, I can
assure you that the cost-per-click can get outrageously high.
However, you're unlike to be able to take advantage of this
because (a) you won't be able to find out which keywords are
expensive without alot of work and (b) Google has a many smart
people working on detecting clickspam and they've gotten very
good at it. --darin
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