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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

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5) Google does a great job with indexed search. Do you see crowd-ranked lists as ultimately competitive or complimentary to traditional and curated search? Google can definitely work complimentary to what we are doing. If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down.

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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. Google’s AdSense) or some other form of ad. contextual text ads (e.g. So did the media.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. But of course Google eventually became the massive winner in this category. Thus, we click!