http://www.mpdailyfix.com/10/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10 Opinions. Commentary. News. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 13:14:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/10/comment-page-1/#comment-37330 Neil Anuskiewicz Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:04:12 +0000 http://www.mpdailyfix.com/10/#comment-37330 Make a much better product and they will come. Google's algorithm was clearly better. I remember the day I switched from Alta Vista to Google and never looked back. So they got *lots* of people to switch, then they sold a lot of contextually relevant ads. It was brilliant but is it sustainable into the future? The consistency and adaptability model will be put to the test if their ad revenue slides. Make a much better product and they will come. Google’s algorithm was clearly better. I remember the day I switched from Alta Vista to Google and never looked back.
So they got *lots* of people to switch, then they sold a lot of contextually relevant ads. It was brilliant but is it sustainable into the future?
The consistency and adaptability model will be put to the test if their ad revenue slides.

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