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- biofusion, on 11/09/2009, -2/+59Holy *****, am I the only one still getting that annoying Dragon Age ad on this page?
- bwinebarger, on 11/09/2009, -2/+46This ad is annoying.
- nesstheking1, on 11/09/2009, -1/+40I will not buy dragon age.
- geekwithsoul, on 11/09/2009, -3/+32Microsoft's market capitalization: 257.31B
Google's: 177.96B
MS IE users: 65%
Google Chrome: 3.58%
MS OS users: ~90%
Google OS users: 0%
And you think Google is getting too big, so you're going to switch to Microsoft Bing? - orky7, on 11/09/2009, -1/+24first of all EA DRAGON AGE sucks...
who ever provide me the best solution i will stick to it no matter whether it is big or small enterprise. - Metalcard, on 11/09/2009, -1/+22You can get rid of the annoying background ads with this GreaseMonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61544
With the recent purchasing of DoubleClick and now AdMob, it seems like Google is simply buying up competition rather than promoting it. I know most things Google touches turn to gold, but I'm not to sure what to think of this at the moment. - mark076h, on 11/09/2009, -0/+15At least it is not an ad for MW2.
- holyskeleton, on 11/09/2009, -0/+14i wouldn't mind it that much if it doesn't make the page so narrow.
- kenyan, on 11/09/2009, -0/+11I hope Digg is getting mad bank from EA for this *****. It's a little ridiculous. I think hammering on about its *****-ness may be the only way to get the point across.
No meaningful comments until we can read more than 5 words of a comment in a single line. - zoomer123, on 11/09/2009, -0/+8Dragon Age is a member of the Ad Mob. Must be arrested immediately.
- jerrolds, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6In my head Google is like Unicron - floating around, clamping down using its 2 giant horns and eating up all little planets in its sight. And when it needs to - it transforms to a big ass robot while an awesome 80s guitar rift plays in the background.
- mark076h, on 11/09/2009, -0/+6i dugg this from the new trend feature but i could not comment from the front page, you have to go look for the article or go to your profile to comment.
- erikarthur, on 11/09/2009, -0/+5Google didn't really buy a pure competitor here. They bought their way into the mobile ad space buy snatching a company with 15,000+ publisher relationships. AdMob is a network not involved in search, part of GOOG's ever-increasing presence in display. Presents plenty of interesting conflicts, however, but a good mid-term tie in to their user-model for Droid (consumers get Droid platform, surf mobile web, get AdMob ads, GOOG makes $). MSFT/Y! don't care about this, they have their own networks of mobile sites. GOOG did NOT buy an agnostic platform for serving ads across any site, like they did with DoubleClick, they bought relationships with publishers and good mobile ad technology.
- rm249, on 11/09/2009, -1/+6I'm getting it too..
- Metalcard, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4This isn't one of them...
- SinYakuza, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4hahaha you guys messed up with the dragon age ad.
- FutureGuy, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Humm sweet, now advertisers only have to pay Google 10$ per click, which in turn they will charge consumers to keep up the margin. I am so looking forward to Google owning 100% market share.
/s - jjamminjon, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Wow, background ads...
- dutchguilder2, on 11/09/2009, -0/+4Google = advertising company, Microsoft = software company. Why do fanboyz keep getting them confused?
- StairwayWit, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4Skynet much?
- FutureGuy, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4@geekwithsoul.
MS's 257.31B market cap is based on a hundreds of software products and devices most of which are profitable. Google's on the other hand is based primarily on 1 product, search engine, on which it makes boat loads of money. Its a good product, arguably the best but there is a catch.
I can tell you first had how expensive it is to advertize on Google, it can easily cost upto 10$ per click for ordinary keywords and given that Google is the gateway to the internet for over 90% of users not advertizing on Google is not an option. You might think you are not paying for it so what's the big deal , aah hha but you are. Advertisers have to jack up the prices accordingly to pay for these super expensive clicks, so in essence you pay for the billions of dollars Google racks in.
So in short there is a Google tax on everything you buy, it just doesn't show up printed on your receipt. - nouman1989, on 11/09/2009, -14/+17Google does it again.Up yours microsoft
- Sutley, on 11/09/2009, -0/+3Google Earth, GPS, AdMob...
What's next, digitizing the world's books and providing them for free? Oh, wait... - Sutley, on 11/09/2009, -1/+4Google is getting too powerful.
- lutafin, on 11/09/2009, -2/+5Right, because making business decisions to lose money is google's goal.
- ultraseamus, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Yeah, I had adblock block it. Still makes the page really narrow. I am sure they are making bank off of this ad, but there has to be a less obnoxious way.
- mark076h, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3I have seen several digg trends not get promoted so far.
- darkened, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2Ad Mob is the provider of probably 90% or more of the ads on the Android software, I have a feeling that's probably why they bought them.
- 4NDr01D, on 11/09/2009, -1/+3hahaha hope you like ADs on your Droid Phone hahaha
- Sutley, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2.
- skate3214, on 11/10/2009, -0/+2@rnawky
There's something wrong with your install of Firefox or your computer because I have never had Firefox get even close to that, the most I've had it use is about 300MB, and that's with 20 or so extensions and with at least 10 tabs open. - mike23w, on 11/09/2009, -0/+2dugg for the greasemonkey script.
Digg is turning into the next AOL with their annoying ads. - fandyboy, on 11/10/2009, -1/+3Erm, Google are slowly aquiring a monopoly on internet advertising you moron, this isn't a good thing.
- pLuhhmm, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Ive seen it like 4 times... Adblock takes 2 seconds to install...
- BeyondVision, on 11/16/2009, -1/+2Google becomes more dominant in the ad market.
- inactive, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1But then how would you see it...
- sublimemm, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1"No meaningful comments until we can read more than 5 words of a comment in a single line."
There weren't any meaningful comments to begin with... I don't think it's possible for digg to realize that you're protesting these ads in this manner. - svivian, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Ha, it's funny how there are more comments on the Dragon Age ad than the actual story.
- MWeather, on 11/09/2009, -1/+2I've got two tabs open and have been browsing for an hour. 173MB used.
- sark666, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1But then I guess Bill Gates appears as agent smith and says, 'I got your matrix right here Unicron!!!'
Yeah, ***** nevermind, I'm high... - gbhall, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1Is it just me, or is the background ad now gone?
- AdamAndEveIt, on 11/14/2009, -0/+1why are you only comparing microsoft to google on parts where microsoft is the larger?
e.g.
number of videos microsoft knows you watched on youtube: 0%
'' google: 100% - bigtime2, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1None of the ones that I have seen, and dugg, have been promoted so far.
- valkyries, on 11/09/2009, -0/+1thats just how bad ass this unicorn is.
- themums, on 11/10/2009, -0/+1my adblock plus blocks everything! I don't have this annoying ad
- frozenwalkway, on 11/10/2009, -1/+1cause google makes software too? sure alot of it is web based. gmail, docs, maps, but they got google earth, chrome
- pLuhhmm, on 11/10/2009, -1/+1Yeah, because google doesnt make software either right?
- jamaph, on 11/10/2009, -1/+1Whatever, Dragon Age: Origins is good fun.
Pardon me, I must go save the world.
Psssst, and I ***** the witch. - isgk, on 11/10/2009, -0/+0Market cap doesn't mean anything, number of people using a paticular browser doesn't mean anything, number of people using an OS doesn't mean anything... it's the fact that Google pretty much owns the Internet on finding information about you.
Google's only reason for being is to take information you give them, try to data-mine that for as much personal trend information and then resell that information that information about you to someone else. MS relative to Google on the amount of information about me they can aggregate and sell is dramatically smaller. -
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