This took longer then it should, but someone finally realized Google funds terrorist. Here is the truth about the Google corporation.
- They are an Advertisement company 100%
- They have no shame about selling ads on anyones site about anything, including terrorism, kiddie porn, and crack sites
- Google wants to decide what laws they want to help enforce, they are against slander against gays, but for kiddie porn
- Their site advertisement is a scam (yes, the Google ads on my site are worthless). Advertisers who pay for these must be idots
- Their Adwords (ads on google.com) are slowly following this trend, a few years ago ROI on these were acceptable, this is happening less and less
- Google only wants some fraud PPC, they make money on fraud clicks but they don’t want too much to drive away the advertisers
- People who do SEO are in cahoots with Google, Google helps them make a living and they keep hush about these truths
- Their search engine hasn’t gotten better in a few years, why? - See #1
- Google does good things for the Open Source community, but I bet they get sued real soon for not following the GPL. Most of the software uses GPL but where is the source code they are required to release to the public?
- They dislike in order: Microsoft, Ebay, Amazon
- They like in order: Yahoo!, Apple, AMD
- Google stock, Google Advertisements, and Google itself is a bubble that will burst. Google has a place but right now they are too big and going in the wrong direction.
Written by Tim on December 7th, 2006 with 4 comments.
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For the last few years I’ve laughed at the poor saps who get up on Black Friday and fight the crowds for their discounts, this year I joined them. A few weeks ago I was fishing around on the net and found some preview ads, and I was hooked. My nephew, Tyler camped out at the Best Buy in Mason and was 7th in line. He went to the store at 7 pm on 22nd! He was after $150 laptop and some other crazy tech deals. He called at 10 that night and told me what was up.
No way was I spending the night in the cold and the items I was after were non techy so my plan was a 4:30 am awake time. My goal was hit a few stores up and only buy their hot buys without standing in line for more then 10 minutes. 4:30 came and went, and with a few snooze hits, I managed to slid into my car at 5:30 and sped to the local Walmart. I had my list for the stores I planned to hit up so I was ready.
Walmart wasn’t too crowded and I was able to pick up the stuff I needed and went on to Meijer. Meijer had the best deals and I almost kept driving when I saw a line out the door. They had a $100 20 inch flat LCD so the line to the electronic section was out the door ~6a.m. The rest of the deals were nicely layed out and after a couple trips up and down the deal isles went on my way. The next stop was HH Greg, it was dead less then 25 people in the store at ~7 am. I was in and out in less then 5 mintues. On next to Target. Target’s crowds were crowded. The one item I went for was sold out but I found a nice replacement deal they had going on that wasn’t advertised. My final stop was KMart, which again wasn’t crowded. Here is the roundup I got.
Walmart
- Baby Walker : was $20 got for $10
- 20 pack Hot Wheels : was $15 got for $10
Meijer
- Tonka Motor Truck : was $49 got for $24.99
- Sleeping Bag : was $15 got for $8
- 3 pillows : was $30 got for $10
- 2 Nerf Hoops : was $14 got for $2
HH Greg
- RCA 512MB MP3 Player : was $50 got for $20
KMart
- Magnetics Construction Set : was $49 got for $24.99
- Craftsman retractable light : was $20 got for $10
- Griddle : was $25 got for $17
Target
- Robe : was $18 got for $12
- Star Wars Transformers : was $35 got for $15
- 2 Hasbro board games : was $16 got for $8
If I had paid full retail for all the total would have been: $356
I ended up paying: $172
My saving was : $184
I was home by 8:30 am. 3 hours of shopping which saved me ~ $62.00 an hour. Not too bad, plus I didn’t wait in line for more then 10 minutes, plus I can now be classified as a poor sap myself.
Written by Tim on December 1st, 2006 with no comments.
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