Shanghaiist: Slogging through the blogs

Steph

Fri, 13 Jan 2006 13:27:16 +0800

I think it's utterly ridiculous. Sure pple go to the million dollar homepage to gawk at the spectacle of this guy basically being given a million dollars, but does any surfer actually *click* on any of the thousands of tiny ads? The advertisers are idiots. The site owner was pretty damn smart though.

Brad

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:55:09 +0800

The original pixel advertising site, The Million Dollar Homepage, is auctioning off its last 1000 pixels today -- bids currently up to US$140k on ebay. Washington Post article

Monk

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 15:44:41 +0800

Those little tiles may be ridiculous, but it's by no means a Chinese phenomenon. It's a concept called "pixel advertising", and there are already a horde of sites like this around the world.