Is it me or is everyone else stupid?

Whats ironic about the news reported here last month about ASK losing the right to sub syndicate their Google feed to parking companies is that, despite all the pontificating by the companies affected themselves, the news was in fact 100% accurate – as now finally admitted.

Be nice if someone would enlighten me as to what all those companies who lost their sub-Google feed did to mitigate their loss.

Slightly skew whiff to all this is that I learned subsequently the ASK Google feed was in fact an adsense for search feed and not the [designed specifically for the purpose] adsense for domains feed. Adsense for search apparently being devoid of smartpricing and therefore much higher paying. How ironic you might think for the domain parking industry that if you have a direct relationship with Google your feed is discounted, get in through the back door (in this case via an ASK sub license), and you clean up.

I bet all the parking companies who actually have direct relationships with Google/Yahoo cheered on hearing news of the ASK sub syndication demise. Must have been extremely frustrating for them to have been continually reading about the forums how their payouts sucked in comparison with [enter new kid on the block here] – especially seeing how they had to obey the golden rule that “one must ne’er detrimentally speak openly of ones competitor”.

I will watch with interest how the ex-ASK syndicators do from now on.

J