Comments on: The story behind Google’s acquisition of Grand Central: Pay-Per-Call http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/the-story-behind-googles-acquisition-of-grand-central-pay-per-call/ Startups, technology and whatnot. Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: RingCentral « RobWebb2k http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/the-story-behind-googles-acquisition-of-grand-central-pay-per-call/#comment-52 Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:48:53 +0000 http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/the-story-behind-googles-acquisition-of-grand-central-pay-per-call/#comment-52 [...] (who I’ve written about before) offers similar services but is targeted towards personal use and has been closed to new users [...]

]]> By: Google v. Yelp: Future of local = trackable calls « RobWebb2k http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/the-story-behind-googles-acquisition-of-grand-central-pay-per-call/#comment-25 Fri, 10 Aug 2007 03:39:07 +0000 http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/the-story-behind-googles-acquisition-of-grand-central-pay-per-call/#comment-25 [...] 10, 2007 in yelp, telecom, Google I posted a while back about the backstory to Google’s acquisition of Grand Central being the need to create a artificial clickstream for non-PPC advertising.  Another move was made [...]

]]> By: Dempsey http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/the-story-behind-googles-acquisition-of-grand-central-pay-per-call/#comment-14 Thu, 05 Jul 2007 04:55:00 +0000 http://robwebb2k.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/the-story-behind-googles-acquisition-of-grand-central-pay-per-call/#comment-14 I meant the “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” thingy. This is more geared to a person’s own info/life, as opposed to the “world’s”.

I like your idea about the GrandCentral technology being deployed for their advertising efforts. Do you see it being used in an advertiser’s account as a way to track and store who had called their business thru the AdWords program?

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