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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Fri May 18, 2012, 09:33 AM May 2012

Another bunch of billionaires and millionaires have just been creating with ad spamming.

Facebook and Google are a plague on the Internets.

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Another bunch of billionaires and millionaires have just been creating with ad spamming. (Original Post) onehandle May 2012 OP

Please suggest an alternate way for them to make money. True Earthling May 2012 #1

You couldn't pay me to use a Google service, and I block Facebook ads. onehandle May 2012 #2

Have you never used Google search? muriel_volestrangler May 2012 #3

True Earthling

(832 posts)

1. Please suggest an alternate way for them to make money.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri May 18, 2012, 10:04 AM

May 2012

Google and Facebook have thousands of employess/programmers and own tens of thousands of servers to program and maintain. How do you suggest they generate revenue to cover their expenses? Would you like to see them charge user fees?

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

2. You couldn't pay me to use a Google service, and I block Facebook ads.

Reply to True Earthling (Reply #1)

Fri May 18, 2012, 10:08 AM

May 2012

Barely use Facebook anyway.

They don't make a dime off of me.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,264 posts)

3. Have you never used Google search?

Reply to onehandle (Reply #2)

Fri May 18, 2012, 11:38 AM

May 2012

Although some recent changes have hurt its usability IMO, it really did seem the best search engine to me through the 2000s.

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