Who Loves Money?
Not surprisingly, Google does.
In their evil bid to take over the world using illicit funds scammed from innocent web denizens, Google has arrived at new levels of villainy by jacking the minimum bids on high-volume keywords for many of their advertisers. They’re blaming it on a “temporary issue,” but I, for one, think that this “temporary issue” is an attempt to bilk less-knowledgeable advertisers out of their hard-earned cash by getting them to pay $10 for their best keywords. Sure, they may fix it in a day or two, but not before they make a tidy sum, which, of course, will go into their world domination fund.
You can read all about the Google Scam “technical bug” here, here, here, here, and here.
Tags: Adwords, Google, Bug, Minimum Bid
that’s what that was? i logged in this morning and just thought google was trying to pull a fast one…
Comment by preston — February 16, 2007 @ 3:30 pm
I had to delete some of the less specific keywords from certain ads because the minimum required bid literally quintupled. No thanks! As if the hundreds of millions of dollars they make every day are not enough…
Comment by Brian Laks — March 8, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
Do you even know what you’re talking about? Seriously, nobody I know in the world would say that Google doesn’t want to make money. It sounds like you’re just some lonely kid sitting in his mom’s bedroom using her crappy old laptop from 1998 to regurgitate worthless crap on your piece of crap of a blog….
Comment by SEO Gangsta — March 11, 2007 @ 4:34 pm
I’m not so sure it was a deliberate way of milking their Adwords clients, but it was definitely hard on some. My sister had barely started with Adwords and this caused her a huge bill. Google gave her a few hundred dollar credit, but she still “got screwed” in her own words.
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