Aaron Bailey and Jeff Jarvis have come up with a sweet GoogleHack: using the pricing for Google's text advertising to "price out" how valuable you are in the infosphere:
Yesterday (below) I asked Google to let us query its database of queries to find out what the people want to find out, to do our own zeitgeist, about anything, anywhere, anyzeit.
Aaron Bailey at 601am did the ingenious thing and used Google's adwords calculator to do almost that.He found:
: Glenn Reynolds: 0.2 clicks/day
: Jeff Jarvis: 0.2 clicks/day (wow, I'm tied!)
: Sex: 16,000 clicks/day (oh, well): I think this leads to a new Google game: Zeitgeist yourself. How many people look for you or your hot topics per day?
(You have to go through the pain of creating your own ad and then putting in keywords but it doesn't take long. Tips: calculate on all languages, all countries and up the cost-per-click or else anything having to do with sex will go off the charts.)
"Cory Doctorow" is worth $0.05 a click, while "Boing Boing" is $0.07.
(Thanks, Jeff!)
