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GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself

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Don't click through if you have epilepsy, or if you don't.

You know the universe is coming to an end when art and click fraud converge.

Remember that (assuming this is real), that money isn't really coming from Google. Google actually makes money from AdSense. So this should really be called Google AdSense Advertisers Will Eat Google. GAAWEG: Kinda a long name, but I would still prefer GAAWEG with a reasonable background to GWEI with this blinding background.

I'm curious if anyone can translate the letter from Google's legal department?

Basically that Google is aware they are using robots in conjunction with AdSense and despite the fact that Google understands this is an art project, Google has to defend its AdSense program as well as its advertisers from harm. Based on the material on the web site itself, Google believes the GWEI people give the impression that their project is violating the AdSense TOS. Google will unequivocally defend its rights and this generally includes shutting down the AdSense accounts of violators. Google also reserves the right to take additional action.

I.e. not quite a takedown letter. More like "we're watching carefully".

"By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model."

I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to write a program that automatically generates modern "art" exhibit descriptions like this one.

Like SCIgen: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that this is a stupid idea - or the background on http://gwei.org/pages/google/googleshare.php

>the fact that this is a stupid idea

It's a joke.

> It's a joke.

Worse, I think it's art.

I just want to say that this is possibly my all-time favorite Hacker News comment.

I got headache trying to read the content on this web site.

And that website will eat your CPU like it did mine.

This reminds me of an old routine about cat hide production.

You probably all remember the "the cats will eat the rats and the rats will eat the cats" thing.

Total B.S. but kind of entertaining.

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