Re: Any mathematicians amongst us?

On Dec 7, 9:41 am, John Nguyen <old...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 7, 1:32 pm, Miguel de Maria <elegantspanishgui...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:



John,
I respect your knowledge.  However, I am No. 1 for my search term
without spending a dime on politicians, without a lobbyist, and
without the support of a major (or even minor) corporate sponsor.

Yes you control the search terms. But Google controls what to deliver,
and the info you get may be skewed by the advertisement factor in
terms of what you get instead of what you're supposed to get. This is
where trade-secret search algorithm comes in to play, and there is no
existing laws to require what has to be delivered based on a search
request. Oh, you don't have to pay a dime for the search because the
other seemingly demonized companies such as GE, Walmart, Microsoft,
FOX, NBC, etc. have paid Google for their ads. Those companies happen
to have a lot of lobbyists in DC, too. One thing I learn by heart was
that there is no free lunch!


I think it's an underutilized tool by a lot of small businesses. The
costs can be very low. My yearly expenses for domain registration and
hosting is obscenely low - about $70. If you have relevant information
that folks are looking for, you could do well. My belief is that small
business can compete with big corporations in the rankings if they
approach it as an educational/informational tool rather than as an
advertisement, which of course, it is.

The main problem is that creating an attractive website and presenting
the information in a way that will maximize traffic and get a good
Google ranking are skills beyond the average schmuck - most folks will
need help. I just slog along in a somewhat ungraceful manner. Hat's
off to you dudes that do it by yourselves!

My site which was designed and is maintained using free programs and
tools without my having prior experience in website design. However, I
find that I dread making changes. That's a shame since being able to
make changes at any time instantly without any costs is a powerful
aspect of all of this.

The internet has been changing for the last 20 years or so and in a
few years could be more or less just another advertising outlet. My
outlook on lunches are a bit different from yours - there are free
ones out there to be had - until other folks find out about them!
That's the breaks. :-)


 My
material would be completely inaccessible if I were relying on
newspapers, Fox News, WSJ, or any other national communication
network.  This happened via Google, but even without search, someone
could simply type in my website and access it.  Nothing comparable
exists in the world beyond the internet.

Before the internet, someone could still find your materials via
directory, phone contacts, local newspaper ads, word-of-mouth, and
snail-mails. It just takes longer to do and more costly. Internet is
not a panacea of all thing where one find the most truth. It just
helps you find thing faster, junk and gem alike. It doesn't solve the
problem that we, the finder, have to sort out things delivered. Before
books were invented, one had to go to a wall in some cave to read the
writings. With books, reading was more accessible, but it didn't mean
al books were good. Book is just a medium, as is internet.

I will excuse myself from discussing the ways corporates doing
business.
Cheers,

John



If you would allow me one more minute to drag this conversation beyond
its rightful death.  Corporations (especially the large ones) are not
value-neutral.  A primary way of making profits is not through
constructive means, but by externalizing--avoiding--their
responsibilities by shunting their expenses and wastes to innoccent
bystanders and taxpayers.  The classic example is the low prices of
Walmart due to taxpayers' paying for health care, by driving out other
jobs and companies, by putting billions of miles of wear on the
highways, spitting huge amounts of pollution into the airs--not to
mention the dubious conditions of the Chinese workers... you get the
picture.  Their success comes at a price that we all share, whether we
want it or not.

It is the giant corporations such as Wal-Mart, GE, Microsoft, and such
that have the most control and the least oversight.  Many of the laws
you mentioned were passed, as well as enormous welfare subsidies and
research grants, because of their palm-greasing--how is that fair to
the people?  They constitute an unelected, unaccountable government,
and should be monitored and controlled to a far greater degree.-

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