UnethicalHacks

you're assuming the average user reads everything on the page.

he owns something like 22% of the company. I read somewhere that this will bring him to approx $800m.

Good. We need to get away from this notion that x hours per day at a job = value.

i say bring on the robots.

we really do need this type of summary for so much content that is online. well played.

some evidence might go a long way.

this will be a fantastic data collection tool to allow advertisers to target user's tastes that they don't "like" on fb.

yes, i suppose if smoking weed is the focus of your day, that could be the end result. I'm very much a casual user.

yes and it doesn't matter. it's like coffee in terms of impact IMO.

I'm guessing they are planning on using this as a lead gen for other projects. Logic being; free product gets popular, developer gets other gigs which are paid.

I agree with you. There is also the arbitrage game that Yahoo! continues to play with publishers. Once in a while they will fine publishers when the bot traffic gets too obvious but then it's back to the same old game.

This will one day come out as a massive scandal.

Can you expand this? Is the product generating revenue now? I own a site in a completely different niche that's also seeing quick success.