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Listed below are comments made by remabcastle between Tuesday, 20th May 2008 and Tuesday, 9th December 2008.

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Is it ever right to wear real fur? 7:04pm on 09 Dec 2008 I can't see the problem. We have for all time used animals for food and clothing - is eating going to become frowned upon next? There's enough regulation to ensure the animals are well treated. There are very few man made materials that have the same properties when faced with a siberian winter.
Meeting Google's Threesome 8:09pm on 20 May 2008 "The cost of pay-per-click, (for example), on Google has gone through the roof in the past couple of years. Businesses are now paying two, three and sometimes five times as much for the exact same results.

This artificially pushes up prices, as companies try to recoup some of the their advertising increases by charging more for their products."

The cost of advertising on Google has actually gone up from what was a very cheap source of advertising to something more comparable with press, TV, direct mail and so on. The difference is search allows such a depth of understanding and Google have made the most of this.

Then consider they have not made such inroads in other services they have been developing - openoffice still vastly outranks the Google office pack whilst Microsoft is by far a leader, desktop search is a mess and what about all those promises from the labs???

Yes they have got a good search package, but as mentioned in the blog - it's one small part of a very big world.

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