Comments on: It’s Not Fricking Arbitrage

By: druster

druster — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:09:07 +0000

wait.. isn’t there risk on the adwords click.

if I buy a click on a high-priced keyword, and create
a landing page with adsense, there is a risk that the
user will not click through. Therefore it isn’t
arbitrage.

By: druster

druster — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 18:50:10 +0000

ah, correct, thx

By: david

david — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:39:46 +0000

No, I didn’t, but I did clarify what I meant.

By: druster

druster — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 01:32:36 +0000

In the above, I think you mean:

buy low priced adwords, click on high-priced adsense

By: teeceo

teeceo — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:07:04 +0000

I agree and the fact that you throw your own partner (shoemoney) under the bus to make your point is truely priceless.

By: david

david — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:43:33 +0000

If enough people use a word improperly, they’re still idiots. It doesn’t change the meaning of a well-defined term.

By: david

david — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:42:54 +0000

Thanks for echoing my comments.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:50:17 +0000

Thanks for posting this. I was sick of this too!

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:17:49 +0000

Finally someone addresses this. Having spent a lot of time in the financial world, I was amused when I first started seeing the term arbitrage used in terms of the web. Yet, it has become this giant misnomer ascribed to anything having to do with online marketing. True arbitrage in the financial markets has become harder over the years as information is more readily available than it used to be. Some hedge funds engage in “risk arbitrage” but even that is kind of a misnomer when you observe the kinds of things they do.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 03:16:54 +0000

How many people have to “misuse” a word before it earns another definition? Language changes.