Reach vs. Grasp followup: Gendowned
By Giania • Dec 7th, 2006 at 3:10 am • Category: Fnord| Hot: |  |  | | | |
Last month I posted an article about a little blog that thought it could, but failed pretty hard. My hypothesis was that by advertising using Google’s services (most notably in this case the web clip news ticker in Google Mail), the intrepid blogger had underestimated the amount of traffic that would draw and got himself shut partly down.
The link reappeared in my Google Mail news ticker this evening so I decided to see if it would finally work out for me.
Not only was this blogger’s site not restored, but that’s all that was left of it! Not even the shell and the company’s logos. This guy got owned and owned hard. Your guess is as good as mine as to what finally killed it. Bandwidth? Inappropriate content? The user’s inability to pay for services? It’s a mystery for sure.
I’ll keep an eye on my news ticker in the future. If this link continues to come up, perhaps some light can be shed on the subject.
