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- angrystan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Um, I hope you guys realize that this isn't the radio and television personality, but rather a suburban-Philadelphia-based realtor who was in business before the "Shock Jock" was on the scene.
For one thing, H.A. Stern the personality would not be suing in a business matter in his own name, but rather through a proxy like "One Twelve Productions". For another the personality does not facilitate Ad-Sense, but the realtor does.
I was looking for a direct link, but it seems pointless. - fourcorners, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4^ And let the stupidity begin.
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Microsoft overcharges - "THEY SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN!"
Google overcharges - "How DARE anyone sue Google!"
Google fanboys are starting to get up there with Mac zealots and Nintendo fanboys in my book. Well, I guess charging customers more than they originally negotiated as a "maximum daily amount" is no longer evil. - MEvsYOU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Let the best man win. Google will unleash their team of cute angry girl lawyers, and do the thong song.
- DFrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Howard isn't from New Jersey.
- teqniq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah real smart... Has NOTHING to do with a celebrity,
Read angrystan's comment above people, This is NOT about Howard Stern "Radio Personalility" - Tweekster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Silver Rocket:
Information monopoly...wow.simply astounding, and by far the stupidest thing i have seen on this website.
because as you know, you can only get information from one place and no more. - teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1He wont lose to Google, they are wrong in this instance and its obvious.
- chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1kefkakrist (from above)
If there is a contract in place, any clicked links above and beyond the "negotiated amount" should just be written off by Google. It is up to Google to stop serving the ads, not for the small company paying for the ad space to just pay for any extra links served. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1stevec, how does that not make sense? If google handles a million searches a day for "Britney Spears" that means they serve the ads related to Britney Spears a million times a day, or about 12 times per second. Now, if your budget allots for 100 clicks and you're at 99, and they serve your ad 120 times in the next 10 seconds, maybe only 1 of those people will click your add, or maybe all 120 people. Since those clicks could occur 1 second after they serve your add or 2 hours after, it is hard to predict with perfect accuracy how many times your ad will be clicked. but anyway, your ad campaign can go seriously overbudget when this happens.
I guess that's the problem with paying per click, but would you rather pay per hour? - teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1""They" won't lose is correct. Although Stern is a no-talent blowhard that gets laughs/ratings off fart jokes, silicon breasts and the less fortunate."
Hmm interesting. Well he's been #1 in radio in every market he's in for almost 20 years so i guess lots of people like his style, of course he doesnt rely on fart jokes or fake breasts and those less fortunate people on his show are paid and he gets them showbiz jobs, he doesnt exploit them like you seem to think he takes care of them and gives them jobs they otherwise would never have. Just because you dont like his style of humor doesnt mean he is worthless, he employees tons of people and he is a pioneer in sattelite radio and on demand tv, wait and see. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There is a contract - you agree that if your ad is overserved by less than 20%, you will pay for the extra ads. If you have a strict budget and can't afford the extra 20%, you should be taking that into account when setting your google ad budget and set the budget lower than what you really want. But the bottom line is that there is full disclosure and the 120% thing is featured prominently - there is no way you could be creating a campaign and not know that risk exists. It's not hidden in some 5 million word user agreement.
- SilverRocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1*
Microsoft overcharges - "THEY SHOULD BE SHUT DOWN!"
Google overcharges - "How DARE anyone sue Google!"
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Don't worry - the Google backlash will soon come. In less than ten years, their business/dominance of internet archiving will be akin to Microsoft's dominance of the PC Market. Nobody will, or should be, cool with that. Tbe the world's #1 archive of information will be in the hands of one for-profit corporation, archiving everything from literature (Google determining with literature to archive? Which authors/subject matter? HELP!) to photographs to medical texts to personal information.
Google's image of the 'little guys that did good' is suitable for the 1999 Google. Make no mistake - Google is a behemoth of a company, worth over $80 BILLION DOLLARS (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4072772.stm). Google is as 'corporate' as it comes, and there is no reason to think that they will be the first corporation on earth to do things farily, objectively, and for the good of anyone but their shareholders. - gwjc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Stern vs Google; I'm torn, but I think I'll have to side with Stern on this one.
- 7of7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Arghh. Firefox won't open the comment section on any Digg story with a comma in the title. Is anyone else having that problem, does anyone know of a solution?
- drgirlfriend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ummm..."Supply." "Demand." "Supply and Demand." Celebrities, quit useless bitching over stupid stuff. Please.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is ***** stupid. How much of an overcharge could we really be talking about? and Howard Stern or whomever posted the ads got extra clickthroughs so it is not like they were being robbed! Filing suit seems like a lot more work than just calling Google and requesting a refund for the overage - if it was really more than 120% of their agreed budget then Google would have refunded it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's a little difficult to make sure that someone's ad account doesn't go over for Google. They serve tons and tons of ad impressions and if an ad is more succesful than expected (has a higher ratio of clicks to impressions) then it's very easy for more clicks to end up occuring than Google intended. On the other hand, if they overserve you one day they should be trying to counterbalance the next day so that overall monthly budget remains right on.
- priz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Bababooey, Bababooey, Howard Stern's penis!
- McLusky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I submit, sir, that it is you who is the iDot! Twice.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ITS ADWORDS NOT ADSENSE.... adsense is where google pays you ... adwords is where you pay google
- gamerzworld, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1isnt it fun in the good old usa? COME TO THE USA AND SUE ANYBODY U WANT! FOR JUST ABOUT ANYTHING U WANT TO SUE THEM FOR!
- Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0howard sterns gonna kick their butts
- twistymcgee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Um, I hope you guys realize that this isn't the radio and television personality, but rather a suburban-Philadelphia-based realtor who was in business before the "Shock Jock" was on the scene.
For one thing, H.A. Stern the personality would not be suing in a business matter in his own name, but rather through a proxy like "One Twelve Productions". For another the personality does not facilitate Ad-Sense, but the realtor does.
I was looking for a direct link, but it seems pointless."
While I haven't really seen any evidence to support this claim there isn't really anything to deny it either. Anyone find anything concrete on this? Err...google doesn't come up with anything. hahaha Sorry I found that amusing. - jasonsbytes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I hope this doesn't affect my adsense income...
- Flogin_Molly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DRgirlfriend above
simple yet smart yaaa someone with a brain on this site - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Not Howard Stern from Anna Nicole!?
- stevec5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0kefkakrist, do you realize that makes no sense at all?
- ephemere, on 10/12/2007, -0/+07of7, I've been reading Digg with Firefox for a few months now, and I haven't had this problem yet...
- quicksilver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"So, quicksilver...you shouldn't be allowed to sue when a company breaks their contracts and basically steals from you? And you are saying that people in other countries wouldn't sue in this instance?
If that is true, I am glad I live in the US,m where someone who is stolen from can sue to get their money back.
jkfan87"
No, though you have a very good point. What I said really had nothing to do with Howard Stern vs Google. I m just sick of people wanting to make a quick buck by suing for a radicals cause. Doesn't America have the highest suing rate? Specially the idiots, for ex:
One guy sued an R/V company cause he had "thought" that the cruise control meant it would drive with out him at the seat. He walked away with cruise control on and went to make coffee. He had a wreck and sued for a million and WON.
It's just wrong. But I glad someone is suing for the cause of a broken contract. If that is the real cause Stern will win. - twistymcgee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@tweekster - I have to agree with you. While google is in a position where if they decided they wanted to become an evil, ruthless company they could be a pain in the internet's ass, there's always other services you can use instead.
- McLusky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, MarketingVox who originally posted the story has pulled it and posted this replacement which says the Howard Stern in question is from Jersey:
http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2005/08/08/google_sued_over_interpretation_of_daily_adwords_limits/
That plus "Why the hell would Howard be using Google ads?" = wrong Howard, dumbasses. - andy78, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Howard Stone is an idot.
posted by isolino (0) at 11:57 AM 8/08/05 score:
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Howard Stern is an idot.
posted by isolino (0) at 11:58 AM 8/08/05 score:
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LOL... I love instant karma.. By the way, this isn't Howard Stern, he doesn't use or need google anything... when you have 8 million listeners a week, the last thing you need is GOOGLE. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Howard losing to google...I don't think so. Do you understand how much money Howard has? He could buy google at least 4 times.
Bet he wins...any bets?
How was this idiot not marked down? Digg is way to tolerant of idiots.
Anyway good for Howard. Google dropped the ball and he's making them pay. No sense in letting getting away with this kind of crap. - isoprophlex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0nice Family Guy reference Priz!
p.s.
isolino is an idiot
isolino is an idiot - sp4rky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0who needs court. here is what will go down.
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=Google&word2=Howard+Stern - DFrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey! That's the new STAIND song!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0BABBA-BOOEY!
- McLusky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0He knows what he knows... and he knows what he has... and he knows what he knows... he gets better!
- twistymcgee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How much do you wanna bet the radio Stern will invite New Jersey Stern onto his show now? This story will spread around the media outlets like wildfire with the incorrect Stern reported like this article did.
- PhaseDMA, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I know it's a pretty complicated idea so let me make it as simple as possible.
If you think someone charges too much THEN DON'T BUY IT!
Economics 101 - Supply and Demand - ihate2regist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google is good
- DFrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Look at you... You baby gorilla. Baskin Robbins called me, said they're down to 5 flavors.
- DFrag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0McLusky!!! From Overspun!
This is McLusky, he's as bad as can and he knows he's the best... - McLusky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Why don't you move up into the mountains and stop bothering people?
- vdub12, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0howerd stern cannot buy Google 4 times. Googles worth 10 times his net value.
- quicksilver, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Welcome to the U.S. please enjoy your stay and be sure to try to sue anyone or thing while you are here.
please..... - isoprophlex, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0>Although Stern is a no-talent blowhard that gets laughs/ratings off fart jokes, silicon breasts and the less fortunate.
Hey pron*, have you ever actually listened to the show?
He doesn't use the less fortunate for his own gain. Unless you count the screwed up stripper girls from strictly religious families, who are willing to fart to win silicon breasts.... - edk4971, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I am having problems with firefox as well, running FF 1.06 on Gentoo, maybe only Linux people are having the problem?
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