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To: T-Lo Greens who wrote (7462)	2/13/2006 9:34:46 AM
From: KeepItSimple	Respond to of 15857

Google holds a near monopoly on the "ads on other people's webpages" market. Microsoft and Yahoo currently only put ads on large volume websites where they can be sure the companies aren't performing clickfraud on their own ads. This may be why MSFT and YHOO have yet to spread their ad network to the small individual sites- they know the fraud is so overwhelmingly large and nobody's figured out a way to stop it yet. ----------------------------- you're making this out to be that clickfraud only exists on GOOG and nowhere else

To: T-Lo Greens who wrote (7462)	2/13/2006 9:51:21 AM
From: Stock Farmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15857

Google is alone in having created an economy in clicks. So Google pretty much owns the arena in which individuals can actually get paid for clicking. Evaluating the automatic-click business model for a second, fixed costs are low, marginal costs are near zero and scale (revenue) is unlimitedly large. Gross margin is nearly 100% as a result. ... Hmmm... with such opportuntity out there, why would anybody bother to invest in inferior business models? Food for though.