The lady on the phone insisted for the third time: You will get a real good position and only for this price. After several calls, dozens of e-mails and talks she had with her manager for us, she offered her reduction to me. All this service without being asked. She was selling positions for a big search engine. For the good order: the positions are related to keywords, which people use when searching on the internet and which can be called the core of the whole internet marketing.
Well, let me see my position then I said. Following the instructions given by her I typed in the keywords. And there I was. Having not been on this search engine for a long time, I was surprised.
Almost every part, every space of the result page was filled with links, banners, sponsored sites and hikis and fikis or whatever it might be called. The results, for which a search engine is actually used for, looked like a land of borders: on the top, middle and bottom of the results were three sponsored links placed. I dont know why, but suddenly this chaos on the screen reminded me of the metropolitan suburbs of developing countries.
Only buildings next to each other; one higher or...