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"google" will pay? or google will take their fat share from all their advertising clients who will pay the extra price since the floor price suddenly jumped to $20 across the board?

seems like an elaborated scam within google to bump q4 revenue. someone really wanted their bonus I guess.

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Are you suggesting that Google decided to risk the trust they've built over decades (worth billions) for a one-time infusion of a few million dollars?

no. and not conspiracy. just belive that they did the math and found out they can get the PR and a profit :)

This is the funniest explanation I've ever heard. Google is one of the biggest companies in the world worth hundreds of billions of dollars, their name is literally a household verb for searching, and you think they need PR?

Sorry, this was obviously an accident that cost them ten million dollars. They are not going to orchestrate a stunt that makes them look incompetent.

> They are not going to orchestrate a stunt that makes them look incompetent.

Speaking of the other Google story on the main page as we speak...

https://www.blog.google/products/messages/latest-messages-al...

Yeah, that whole debacle does not look good for them. This is damage control.

Is everything a conspiracy to you?

I assure you that there's no real way to spend Google's money on ads and then somehow make it back on rev share w/ publishers (or on the money you didn't collect from the real advertisers who didn't win the auctions you overpaid for)... of all the possible scams, I don't think this one would work very well. I'm willing to look into it though.

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