nytimes.com — "The project begins today with a test of a campaign for Saturn, bundling together several Google products and services like clickable video clips, the Google Earth satellite mapping tool and geographic finding of computer users."
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Closed AccountSep 22, 2006
This is interesting. Let's hope Google's new advertising inventions keep with their motto of: advertising must be useful.
iamhrhSep 22, 2006
What the hell are you talking about?
djbelieveSep 22, 2006
Has anyone seen this in action yet? Maybe a screenshot or video...?
invaderSep 22, 2006
as far as i can tell, it's just speculation.. they said starting today, people "will see" (as in it possibly isn't there as of right now..) what looks like a banner ad on "a variety of Web sites in six cities"if someone sees one of these mystery ads, please link
Closed AccountSep 22, 2006
Actually, Google's real motto is "Advertising must look exactly like the rest of the links on a page, so stupid people won't know they're being advertised to."That was the whole reason text ads took off in the first place- they had much, much higher clickthroughs than banner ads which were obvious advertisements.Now google's going to add spinning/flashing banners? They wouldn't bother unless their core text-ad profit engine is waning..
livewire530Sep 22, 2006
I agree, I highly doubt google will ask you to shoot the monkey with the stupid banners.
ech0Sep 23, 2006
advertising makes you aware of the product, of course its useful to the individual. ok, maybe alot of ads are not useful to you but there is a handful that are useful and do help you. if your not aware of a product how are you going to buy it?
ech0Sep 23, 2006
f**king commie, go rot in hell