Hardik Thakkar on Web Development, Internet Economics and other unrelated things

I just noticed some links below the usual google ads on my Gmail, here’s a screenshot:

On clicking on the “About these links” I was redirected to this page which interestingly has not been updated since May, meaning that Google has not added any new Terms & Conditions or explainations for link units. Which, in my […]

I just signed up for Google AdWords and guess which company’s User Agreement I had to click on ‘I Agree’? I know you read the title.. Google Ireland!
There is no reason for Google to have an Ireland agreement, they have a proper Indian subsidary, Google India with it’s presence in several cities throughout the […]

In my opinion, yes.
Why? Because if the visitors will be getting revelant results in the natural search itself why would they bother visit the ads?
A strong counter arguement will be that site-flavoring will tend to make the ads relevant too (though google has not said anything to that effect, that much sophistication has to […]

In this post, I am going to talk about factors that slow the pace of the ‘Equilibrium Effect’ I wrote about in my last post.
* Geotargetting
An arguable point would be that Indian webmasters would have content that would mostly attract Indian audience and hence would be subject to different ads altogether because of Geotargetting.
There’s a […]

The folks at official Google Blog recently posted a proud entry about an article published in USA Today titled ‘Google’s Hidden Payroll’ where several instances were cited of web-publishers in developing countries relying for their income on Google. It is something indeed to be proud of, to be involved in accelerating development where there is […]

When moderating the comments of another of my blog late last week I was surprised to see one very spammy comment linking to a page on Indian Express’ Website (http://expressindia.com). On clicking the link I was redirected to a ‘Buy Phentermine Online’ page, the link was: http://www.expressindia.com/adlinks/pharma/phentermine.htm and while it has now been removed from […]

I have been planning to start a blog where in I can publish my views about the emerging internet technologies, revenue generation models being currently used and mainly express my thoughts & opinions on Internet as it grows. I belive we are lucky enough to be witnessing the nascent growing stages of the new connected […]