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 […]

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 […]