I totally agree with Jason Calacanis here: “This the studipest thing I’ve read in a long time.”
Looks like Jakob has a big problem distinguishing between organic and sponsored search results. The picture below is from this site’s statistics in January:
As you can see, direct and non-search-engine referral hits are a tiny minority for me. Almost 85% of my traffic came from Google alone! How much did it cost me? Zero!
A decent percentage of these visitors also do click on ads, which brings the net value of search engine traffic to a net positive. If search engines are leeches on the Web, give me more of them!
Published by ugo on January 11, 2006
in apple.
Anyone wants to buy a 1.25GHz 15″ PowerBook for cheap? I’m really thinking of putting my hands on one of the new Intel MacBooks. I was prepared to be disappointed by this year’s Macworld keynote, as I didn’t expect much more than an Intel Mac Mini or iBook, but Jobs surprised all of us with the new products. Hereby some impressions on the announcements.
Sporting a brand new Intel Core Duo (Yonah) in a laptop, Apple is once again at the head of the pack, even in the hardware arena. And to think that it’s been barely seven months since the Intel move has been announced. Many observers predicted that it would have taken much longer for Cupertino to deliver its first significant Intel models, and that the wait would have cost them a significant drop in market share in the meantime. Nothing of this has happened and we can expect to see more and more Apple laptops around. With the new MacBook, there is no compelling reason (apart from the price maybe) for geeks and even most ordinary people to use a Wintel machine.
The price difference between the 1.67GHz and the 1.83GHz models is huge, even after upgrading memory and disk on the slower one. I’m not sure I’d take the latter.
The absence of an internal modem and a FireWire 800 port is mildly annoying. But I used the former only occasionally and never the latter, so I can live with that.
The new iMac and the software: nothing interesting to me here. My recently bought iMac G5 20″ is still a great machine and the software is nothing more than updates, apart from iWeb for which I have no use, personally.
For Gianugo: to me the MacBook looks the same color as the PowerBook, that is aluminum (not titanium). The darker color in some photos looks like an artifact of lighting.
