2005 2

Google Adsense

I’ve put in Google Adsense on my page. But the results are ridiculously irrelevant! Comments Raghuraman 9 Sep 2008 9:15 am: google adsense work in expliand in tamil language, For an approval of adsense and how to publish my website to the visitors for click programe and get earn by this work. Thanking you

nofollow tag

On the impact of ‘rel=nofollow’ tag. Or, perhaps, some prominent webloggers will use “nofollow” as a money-making technique: for a fee, they’ll take the “nofollow” off your link and let you have their PageRank.

2002 4

Free PDF creator

Free PDF creator. Wonder how they manage to make money. More importantly, how did they get permission from Adobe? via andersja

Charge for eliminating spam

Here’s a good business model. Buy a free e-mail provider. Add spam. Then charge for eliminating spam. Good thing I got rid of my Hotmail account.

The End of Free

The End of Free. What’s going from free to fee. Of course, the service has to be immune to reactions like burn all gifs.

The value of words

While on the subject of free, Christophe’s little experiment on the value of words via Google lists “free” as the most valuable word, at $7,500 a day.

2001 3

Amazons honor system

Amazon’s honor system is a quick and easy way to sell content on the Internet. (They also have other ways of selling.) It’s available only for the US currently, though. Pity…

Paid auctions working

Yahoo’s auction listings fell 82% when they started charging for auctions. But the sales apparantly is steady, and quality of listings is going up. Amazon may follow suit. Looks like the pay-model is the one that will survive on the Net.

Trend towards paid services

Now Yahoo! will charge a fee for auctions. No more free PCs. No more free ISPs. No more ad revenues. No more free auctions. The trend is clear. Pay! Unfortunately, they’ll also monitor what’s being sold – an indication that country-specific legal barriers are creeping into the Internet.