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Web bots – There’s no magic

This is a follow-up to my previous article about the web bot. In that article, I briefly explained what the web bots are and if they were able to predict anything. I strongly suggest you read the article but it’s not a prerequisite to this article. In that first web bot post, I made a [...]

10 Easy ways NOT to make money online

I’m really sick of all these “How to make money online”, “10 steps to make money online”, “How to monetize your blog” stuff because it’s always the same story over and over again. There’s no science to make money online: Write QUALITY content, update regularly and get involved in your niche/social networks! Crap = No [...]

The future of Internet Advertising

I posted an article about the future of Internet advertising on my technology blog Adopt A Packet and I think it might be of interest for a lot of persons at Daily Common Sense. Internet Advertising has reached a certain limit and Google experienced it recently. They’ve recorded a drop in the number of clicks [...]

Google: Don’t be Evil…For now.

I’ve been saying it for the past year and I think this year is the year Google will start its first Evil year. The point is that Google’s shares are now crashing. Until now, Google was getting revenue fairly easily from their advertisement business and was spending without limits. Google’s reality is different today. They [...]

How does Google make money?

One of the question I often have to answer is: “How does Google make money?”. They don’t sell any product, everything you use from them is free and on top of that they seem to be very active in the “open source” community. So how the hell can they cash-in? Advertisement Advertisement, that’s how Google [...]

How Does Google Rank Websites?

Everybody use Google and it’s by far the best and most popular search engine on the Internet. Have you ever asked yourself how does Google decide which site ranks first and which site appears on the last page of the search results? Of course, it use your keywords to determine which site is the most [...]

The day only computers will understand CAPTCHA

It’s starting to get annoying and I’m talking about CAPTCHA. What is CAPTCHA? It’s the little annoying ‘text’ images you see all around the place when you register/sign up to something on the Internet. It usually looks like the images around. I’m really sick of all that CAPTCHA thing as I think it’s really ruining [...]

Google comment on Microsoft’s “hostile” bid for Yahoo!

An interesting post was published today on Google’s official blog and it’s written by David Drummond, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development and Chief Legal Officer. It’s quite official. Here’s the core of the post: So Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking [...]

Microsoft and Yahoo potential deal

Microsoft has just made an offer to buy Yahoo in a effort to intensify its presence on the internet already dominated by Google. It’s kind of funny that such an offer is made a couple of days after I wrote my article Why Google succeed where Microsoft fails. Microsoft is offering $31 a share for [...]