I Predicted Smart Pricing Long Ago

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I Predicted Smart Pricing Long Ago

Here is the proof

asas111

8:40 pm on May 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

I am not sure when Smart Pricing was introduced, but I am sure it wasn't before May 2005. That is when I posted the following topic, and at the time, people wete making fun of what I wrote. But it is true now. I just used the term 'Click Discrimination' instead of 'Smart Pricing'

Read and decide for yourself how close my concept back them was similar to what we have today in Smart Pricing:

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farmboy

9:29 pm on May 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

So now we all know who gave Google the idea for smart pricing!

FarmBoy

swa66

9:56 pm on May 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

Who cares?

purplecape

11:32 pm on May 30, 2008 (gmt 0)

Google actually introduced Smart Pricing, officially, in April/May 2004, though I'm sure they've refined the concept since then.

So you were a year late then and three years later now.

purplecape

12:51 am on May 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

And by the way, from the AdSense Forum Library, here's the first discussion of what we soon started to call Smart Pricing:

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That's dated April 1, 2004, but I think there were earlier discussions on the AdWords side--which makes sense, because Google introduced it to get advertisers more interested in the Content Network (that's us).

Looking at your 2005 post, I think the reason people didn't respond well to it is that what you described is not what Smart Pricing is about (and so they didn't say, "Oh, you're talking about Smart Pricing!"), or even close to it, and in fact you pulled together different issues (sources of traffic and self-clicks, for example) under the same umbrella.

Sorry, but your claim to have invented Smart Pricing has less to back it up than Al Gore's claim to have invented the Internet....

greatstart

3:18 am on May 31, 2008 (gmt 0)

Al Gore's claim to have invented the Internet

I thought Al Gore invented Adsense!