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Vinny Lingham's Blog: Google to drop CPC and revert to CPM

  • Jeremy Palmer · 2 years ago
    It's still a little early for April Fools here in the states. I thought you were on Pacific time now ;)
  • Vinny Lingham · 2 years ago
    Hehe - I'm currently in London at the moment :-)
  • Eric · 2 years ago
    Time Zones combined with the speed of the Internet are killing the April Fools Jokes!
  • Pligg · 2 years ago
    I was just going to publish your news on our Swiss social network....then it hit me. Good one!
  • Jamdo · 2 years ago
    Arghg! You got me!
  • Vinny Lingham · 2 years ago
    If you haven't already - please digg this post! (Click the digg link at the bottom of it)
  • Jatin Dhillon · 2 years ago
    Holy cow ,i was starting to pee in my pants.....

    Grr.. I will catch you next year.
  • David · 2 years ago
    You had me there for a moment :-)
  • Semmy · 2 years ago
    DAMN. You got me, too - I almost spilled my coffee. :-)
  • Bart · 2 years ago
    This is not how I wanted to start my morning. Thanks for the joke... it was cruel but good.
  • Mike Greening · 2 years ago
    I even played an April fools joke on my girlfriend at 8:00am this morning before being fooled by this hook line and sinker. Nice!
  • Sylonious · 2 years ago
    Seriously, not cool. I almost had a heart attack. You too, Jeremy for passing this on in your newsletter. :(
  • Brian Gruss · 2 years ago
    Vinny, I thought for sure Google was turning into the friendly search engine. Good joke though. Although if I were you, I would be ducking my head next year. Chances are your going to get wallupped.

    Cheers

    Brian Gruss
  • BJ · 2 years ago
    Vinny AND Jeremy, you got me! Good April Fools - my heart dropped for the few seconds it took for me to open up this page!
  • Drew Kossoff · 2 years ago
    You scared the bejeezus out of me for a minute there!! Unfortunately I'm sitting here in a hospital bed where I've been for 5 days and forgot today was April 1st!
  • Franck Silvestre · 2 years ago
    Oops, I was wondering what the heck!
  • Agustí García · 2 years ago
    Huh... here in Spain (Europe), Fool's day is not in this month!

    This morning I was very stressed!
  • Cecilio · 2 years ago
    You got me too...
  • JR · 2 years ago
    OMG! Vinny you SOB!!! I was freaking out...checking my campaigns. I was calling my clients to tell them, and I was saying I hadn't seen any change yet in my campaigns but it could take a few days. Now I've got to tell them I was a victim of an elaborate April fools day joke.

    What are we in 3rd grade!!!???

    Good one though. You got me big time!!!
  • Vinny Lingham · 2 years ago
    Thanks for all the comments everyone! Spread the word and watch the panic for the rest of today anyways! :-) This has been great fun! I'm glad everyone can sit back and have a good laugh on April Fools day! I'm going to find it hard to top this one next year!!
  • Runa · 2 years ago
    If only it wasn't April Folls...

    It would have been nice to see wether google would also pay the adsense publishers on a pay-per-impression basis.
  • gaman · 2 years ago
    That was scary :D
  • Stefano Sessa · 2 years ago
    good one! hehehe, had me thinking for a bit.
  • Stephen Ralph · 2 years ago
    Hilarious! I wonder how many people rushed to their Adwords account only to find out they were had. Good one! =0
  • Ed Hardy · 2 years ago
    Dude ... I googled for that as someone was mentioning something like this lately. Good its just a April Fools Joke.
  • Don Ed Hardy · 2 years ago
    Thank god, there was this line:

    "THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE - DO NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY"

    I was shocked at first :D
  • Emo · 2 years ago
    First April is long ago. My luck - I read some of the comments first and decide then to read the article or not to read it :)


    have a nice night
  • Hardy · 1 year ago
    LoL! Lookin' forward to next April 1st!
  • Schiffsbeteiligungen · 1 year ago
    1st April is coming soon, for sure...
  • Emo Boys · 1 year ago
    F***... I read this was freaking out for a short period of time... today we have feb 2008 and i wasn't thinking, that this is a last year's april fool post.... yes you made an april fool out of me... a little late, but you did :-)
  • ed hardy · 1 year ago
    omg, this was an april's joke yes? because a friend just told me this and i found this post via google
  • Hardy · 1 year ago
    nice april joe :) lol
  • C. Audigier · 1 year ago
    well we will see...
  • Roman · 1 year ago
    Lookin’ forward to next April 1st!
  • Zwink · 1 year ago
    I wish that would have happened, their CPC prices are dropping every month.
  • gently · 1 year ago
    Every Year has an April 1st!