Don't Be Ouroboros
March 16, 2014 5:30 PM Subscribe
Google Will Eat Itself! "We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares. We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it!"
This post was deleted for the following reason: Double. -- restless_nomad
Also, have you ever noticed all of the steam coming out of a locomotive? What if you fed that power back into the engine? Then it could run on its own forever!
posted by Johnny Assay at 5:36 PM on March 16, 2014 [5 favorites]
posted by Johnny Assay at 5:36 PM on March 16, 2014 [5 favorites]
Post Will Eat Itself
Sample it, loop it, fuck it, and eat it.
posted by bongo_x at 5:37 PM on March 16, 2014
Sample it, loop it, fuck it, and eat it.
posted by bongo_x at 5:37 PM on March 16, 2014
Sample it, loop it, fuck it, and eat it.
That's the hoodie I'm wearing today. Weird....
posted by pompomtom at 5:39 PM on March 16, 2014
That's the hoodie I'm wearing today. Weird....
posted by pompomtom at 5:39 PM on March 16, 2014
202.345.117 Years until GWEI fully owns Google.
Make that 202 345 110 -- judging from the news feed and the listed stock price, that site was last updated in 2007.
posted by effbot at 5:44 PM on March 16, 2014
Make that 202 345 110 -- judging from the news feed and the listed stock price, that site was last updated in 2007.
posted by effbot at 5:44 PM on March 16, 2014
Google has a long and mostly undefeated history of identifying and squashing people who try and game their system.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:44 PM on March 16, 2014
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:44 PM on March 16, 2014
This ignores that there's a pipeline of external energy revenue coming into the system--i.e., the vendors/websites/etc. that pay Google to carry their advertisements on the Adsense network. All that you're really doing is betting that Google will pass on a larger amount of that revenue than the amount they keep for themselves/their shareholders (a quantity that is abstractly represented by stock price.)
posted by kagredon at 5:51 PM on March 16, 2014
posted by kagredon at 5:51 PM on March 16, 2014
To really close the loop they need to show the ads on generated content sites running Adsense, seeding the content generator with highly ranked Google web pages. And then have a network of Google Compute-hosted bots clicking on those ads.
There are real live businesses that make money by buying Google Ads to drive product to sites that then have nothing but Google Ads on them. Basically a form of keyword arbitrage. Google mostly tries to shut them down.
posted by Nelson at 5:55 PM on March 16, 2014
There are real live businesses that make money by buying Google Ads to drive product to sites that then have nothing but Google Ads on them. Basically a form of keyword arbitrage. Google mostly tries to shut them down.
posted by Nelson at 5:55 PM on March 16, 2014
Isn't this like an employee of a company using all of their income to buy their own company's stock thinking they'll own the entire company one day? By serving Google Ads, they're still advertising on their behalf and getting paid for it.
posted by pravit at 6:02 PM on March 16, 2014
posted by pravit at 6:02 PM on March 16, 2014
although, that has so many possibilities itself. What's the point at which the expected revenue from holding more stock and the expected revenue from being an Adsense outlet are in equilibrium?
There's a pretty whiz-bang screenplay waiting to be written about a trio of counterculture artists who start a scheme like this, but increasingly become preoccupied with the mechanics of shareholder meetings and Adsense gaming and hey, when did this become our jobs instead of a joke? In America, capitalism consumes you.
posted by kagredon at 6:04 PM on March 16, 2014
There's a pretty whiz-bang screenplay waiting to be written about a trio of counterculture artists who start a scheme like this, but increasingly become preoccupied with the mechanics of shareholder meetings and Adsense gaming and hey, when did this become our jobs instead of a joke? In America, capitalism consumes you.
posted by kagredon at 6:04 PM on March 16, 2014
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202.345.117 Years until GWEI fully owns Google.
posted by KokuRyu at 5:32 PM on March 16, 2014