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Comment by 1970-01-01

19 hours ago

GOOG +65% YTD. Opposite of dead.

Though, that doesn't really conflict with the story. He increased his ad spend before he figured out it wasn't working. Which would be more $$ for Google.

  • is super ineffective, indeed. if you need to pay 20$ to get s.o. to pay you 50$ for a service/product, well in all honesty calling people one by one and giving them 10$ is more likely to result in sale.

Both of these things can be true:

- Google, the company, is doing pretty well in the stock market.

- Google, the advertising company, isn't generating good ROI for its advertising customers.

From Google's point of view, they've been very gunshy about having ads be their only revenue stream for years; I wouldn't be surprised that the consequence is the value there is drying up.