GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself (2005)

We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares.

We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it!

By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model.

After this process we hand over the common ownership of "our" Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To The People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users (clickers) / public.

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We generate money by serving Google text advertisments on a network of hidden Websites. With this money we automatically buy Google shares.

We buy Google via their own advertisment! Google eats itself - but in the end "we" own it!

By establishing this autocannibalistic model we deconstruct the new global advertisment mechanisms by rendering them into a surreal click-based economic model.

After this process we hand over the common ownership of "our" Google Shares to the GTTP Ltd. [Google To The People Public Company] which distributes them back to the users (clickers) / public.

A bit more in detail

One of Google's main revenue generators is the "Adsense"* program: It places hundreds of thousands of little Google text-ads on websites around the world.

Now we have set up a vast amount of such Adsense-Accounts for our hidden Web-Sites. For each click we receive a micropaiment from Google. Google pays us monthly by cheque or bank-transfer to our Swiss e-banking account. Each time we collected enough money, we automatically buy the next Google share [NASDAQ: GOOG, todays value ~430.- USD] - we currently own 40/forty Google Shares.

Important: Google Will Eat Itself works by using a social phenomenon rather than depending on a purely technical method (for example a simple click-farm). Because of this social dimension empowered by technology, Google is not able to fight GWEI and it`s franchises by using their regular counter-fraud methods.

GWEI - Google Will Eat Itself is to show-case and unveil a total monopoly of information , a weakness of the new global advertisment system and the renaissance of the 'new economic bubble" - reality is, Google is currently valued more than all Swiss Banks together (sic!).

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