On: A company making $100 million a year disintegrated when Google took away their business model.

[huhtenberg]

Article in short:

  Geosign was doing "search arbitrage", which meant buying
  keywords from Google and filling their landing pages with
  ads from other providers (e.g. Yahoo).

  Google didn't like that. The end.

[bprater → huhtenberg]

Man, can I hire you so I can surf about 90% less everyday?

[hugh → bprater]

Can anyone explain why the comment in this subthread by keating is marked as "[dead]"? What does that mean?

[allenbrunson → hugh]

"dead" means "killed by a yc editor." somebody with some authority around here thought the comment was extremely inappropriate, trolling, spam, etc

[hugh → allenbrunson]

Hmm, so why doesn't it just get deleted?

[allenbrunson → hugh]

generally speaking, they are. if you don't want to see them, set the "showdead" parameter in your profile to "no." i assume they're kept around in zombie state for forensic purposes.

[kf → hugh]

So people can't cry "censorship"

[lolb → kf]

But it's still censorship?

[mynameishere → huhtenberg]

The purpose of feature writing is to tell a complete story, not provide data as fast as possible.

War and Peace in short:

  Napoleon invades. Gets kicked out.

[immad → huhtenberg]

That article took a long time to get to the point.

It was still interesting.

[tbone28 → huhtenberg]

THANK YOU! I could not even read the whole thing. I just got done watching 10,000 BC and guess I am not in the mood for another epic.

[lakeeffect → huhtenberg]

Seriously, can i get a feed of your Articles in Short.

[TrevorJ → huhtenberg]

Frikkin' A. that's the last time I read th article BEFORE I look at the comments. Could have saved myself 10 minutes.