[opendtv] Re: Apple users get dunked when reserving travel online...
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:20:46 -0400
At 2:46 PM -0400 6/27/12, Cliff Benham wrote:
Doesn't matter how poorly it was written, the meaning came through
loud and clear. Any unsuspecting Apple user
will be pointed to more expensive travel options than a PC user.
The non-equal message this sends is that I should stay as far away
as possible from Apple and Orbitz products.
Did they intend that? Don't know, but what they meant is not nearly
so important as what I THINK they meant.
Me thinks you are making a mountain out of a mole hill.
At most, Orbitz is reordering the listing of hotel choices, placing
the higher priced first. I just searched for a hotel in Gainesville
(on a Mac) and it listed every decent hotel in town. The more
expensive hotels were interspersed with the cheaper hotels, which
suggests that Orbitz has not implemented the changes the article
discussed. The low cost choices will still be there.
Like it or not, search engines and e-commerce sites learn from our
behavior and shape results accordingly - this is especially true for
the ads that we are presented with.
Unfortunately you have been duped by an Internet "publishing
industry," which is compensated primarily by advertiser page views.
As a result we are subjected to articles that are broken up into
multiple pages, and writers that go out of their way to include
almost anything that a search engine will pick up, driving hits for
the story.
I just typed "Apple" into Google and got 2.2 TRILLION hits.
"Microsoft" got 339 MILLION hits.
Writing anything about Apple is going to generate page views, whether
the story is positive or negative. Compounding this problem is an
analyst community that supports its "positions" and degrades the
competition. Apple is one of the most manipulated stocks in the
world, and stories like the Orbitz article are all too common.
Regards
Craig
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