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Did Rush Limbaugh listeners bring down Obama's 'Change Wall Street' ad?
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Posted on 04/21/2010 5:07:48 PM PDT by BlueJ7

Mr. Doe explained that for each “click” through to the Obama site, someone, somewhere was billed for each and every one of them. Granted, it could be as little as a nickel per click, but John Doe quickly got his point across.

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1 posted on 04/21/2010 5:07:49 PM PDT by BlueJ7
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You bet! The Google mechanism is well known. The Limbaugh audience is large enough to eat any "pay per click" scheme for lunch in minutes. Ditto for CoastToCoastAM and Glenn Beck. I hope it cost the RATS a bundle and for zero benefit. Let's do it again tomorrow. Obama wants to use the net to push his agenda. It works both ways.
2 posted on 04/21/2010 5:11:46 PM PDT by Myrddin
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Was some White House hack listening to the show and realized he’d better pull it or get a very, very large advertising bill from Google next month?

Mr. Doe explained that there were daily, weekly or monthly threshholds that when met would turn off the advertising. Someone may have "manually" shut it down, but it is more probably that the daily threshheld was met.

It would be neat to keep doing this.

3 posted on 04/21/2010 5:13:36 PM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: Myrddin

I was driving around today and heard that. I’ll be clicking tomorrow. :)


4 posted on 04/21/2010 5:14:07 PM PDT by Qwackertoo (Make it stop, please.)
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To: BlueJ7

I was listening today when this happened. It was very funny. It also was too very fast to have been manually “taken down”. It was there one minute and gone the next. The caller, an ex-Google employee explained that when someone buys an ad like that that they can place a limit on the daily “sales” or clicks of that link.

This hard limit was reached quickly. It will be interesting to see if the link makes it back up later tonight/tomorrow.


5 posted on 04/21/2010 5:15:33 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: BlueJ7

You can limit the total bill from any one add. Typically, when you post adds like that you can specify the maximum you are willing to pay. The add disappears automatically after the max billing is reached.


6 posted on 04/21/2010 5:15:38 PM PDT by bluejay
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To: BlueJ7; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...
The list, ping

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7 posted on 04/21/2010 5:16:11 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: BlueJ7

I hope he encourages listeners to do it again tomorrow and everyday after that until the ad ends.


8 posted on 04/21/2010 5:18:01 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: BlueJ7

The following was in the comments section of this article- I tried it, Obama’s ad is there!


Try searching for “goldman sachs sec obama”


9 posted on 04/21/2010 5:19:05 PM PDT by hiho hiho
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it still pops up if you type in Goldma Sachs SEC Obama...feel free to click away...:D


10 posted on 04/21/2010 5:20:31 PM PDT by stefanbatory (Weed out the RINOs! Sign the pledge. conservativepledge.org)
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To: FreeAtlanta

It is still there. I am clicking away watching the ball game.


11 posted on 04/21/2010 5:23:42 PM PDT by wmpok
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To: stefanbatory

I clicked maybe 10 times and it went away.


12 posted on 04/21/2010 5:24:49 PM PDT by wmpok
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To: wmpok

Clicking the link doesn’t bring up the site.Does that mean it’s down?


13 posted on 04/21/2010 5:25:32 PM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: stefanbatory; wmpok
Let me help everyone :-)...

Goldman Sachs SEC Obama

14 posted on 04/21/2010 5:25:49 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: BlueJ7

Google search “Goldman Sachs SEC” ........ the ad is there. Just clicked on it about 15 times ....... couldn’t help it.


15 posted on 04/21/2010 5:26:20 PM PDT by shooter223 (the government should fear the citizens......not the other way around)
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To: wmpok

I searched “goldman sachs sec obama” and the link is still there...this could be a fun new grass-roots level tool to register our displeasure with the current regime and its ilk...


16 posted on 04/21/2010 5:26:56 PM PDT by stefanbatory (Weed out the RINOs! Sign the pledge. conservativepledge.org)
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To: FreeAtlanta
I wonder if the Obama lovers at Google are giving Obama free ads?

I know this is fun and everything, and I hope it is costing the creeps big time, but I don't put anything past the "Do No Evil" liars at Google.

17 posted on 04/21/2010 5:27:50 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Hey, Barack "Hubris" Obama, $10 is all it would take, why spend millions to cover it up?)
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To: stefanbatory

You shouldn’t have to put obama it that was the point of him buying the Goldman SEC words


18 posted on 04/21/2010 5:29:09 PM PDT by wmpok
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To: BlueJ7

Did the search yesterday. Just tried again and no Obama ad for the “Goldman Sachs SEC”, but I did get a lot of sites in which Google has identified the site as “harmful to your computer”. I wonder if they are tagging negative sites?


19 posted on 04/21/2010 5:29:53 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline.)
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To: stefanbatory

I just aggravated my carpal tunnel tearing it to pieces...and wifey’s still hard at it on the laptop.


20 posted on 04/21/2010 5:30:57 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not the Obama Administration....it's the "Obama Regime".)
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