Google Chrome ads coming to TV
Google plans to make its first foray into the old-fashioned world of television advertising with spots promoting its Chrome browser this weekend.
Google Japan had already released a 30-second video promoting Chrome on YouTube, but the company will distribute that video through the Google TV Ads network this weekend as an experiment to see if it can drum up interest in Chrome, its new browser. Google said it's using the research it has done on measuring the relevance of television ads in order to place the Chrome ad appropriately.
Chrome was also featured as part of a huge ad on the front page of The New York Times' Web site Friday, with several different videos promoting the browser. Those are also available, of course, on YouTube.
For a consumer brand of its size, Google does relatively little advertising. It put Chrome ads on YouTube in January, but "house ads" are a little different than network television exposure. Likewise, T-Mobile advertises the "G1 with Google" in hyping up the Android-powered G1, but that's not exactly the same as making Google the focus of the ad.
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Also, wish they try to target IE instead of Firefox, but that remains to be seen. Either way, I do not see Chrome as any threat for Firefox! especially after 3.5 comes out!
I feel like your comment is heaven!
e.g. If your PRIVATE emails have soem reference to some subject or items BOOOOOOOMMMMM !!! Google LATCHES on to that and you see their "Advertisers" associated with those subjects or keywords, coming out of the Google woodwork and appearing in the google email sidebars!!!
You would THINK "YOUR" "PRIVATE" email was ""PRIVATE"" !!! SAME goes for CHROME - nothing will be PRIVATE anymore!!! ---------------- Next they will be WATCHING you via the PIXELS on your monitor !!! ITS COMMMMIIINNNNNNNG !!! and then it will be "...They are here! "... poltergeist fashion ..."
Beaware of the new "BEAR" !!!
Evidently you haven't noticed...the world doesn't want to be conquered. Everyone is waking up to the dangers of another monopoly and fighting back.
What's ironic is that they're backpedaling to "old fashioned" TV ads. I guess even they don't have confidence in their own advertising platform anymore.
No ads, not Internet.
But you might be to young or naive to know how the world works.
http://www.fritscher.ch/blog/2009/04/20/google-chrome-adblock-without-proxy/
There are many more ways to block ads than AdBlock. Personally I use a hosts file which redirects many advertising URLs to 127.0.0.1 (loopback to your own machine, thus it won't load). If you're worried about rogue javascript, you might want to look into NoScript, which blocks scripts unless they are white-listed (basically, white-listing is about the most secure strategy).
There's a program called Privoxy, which is capable of performing similar tasks by acting as a proxy which filters-out undesirable scripts and ads. See this post here, from the same blog:
http://www.fritscher.ch/blog/2008/09/03/google-chrome-adblock-with-privoxy/
No, this isn't my blog, I was originally just gonna post about privoxy and the hosts file until I found that article that mentions AdSweep.
It is simple, intuitive, fast, and light.
Personally, I like chrome, but don't use it. It's fast and easy to use, but I'd prefer it if there was an option to not send your entire browsing history every time you type something into the address bar.
Also, a noscript or equivalent plugin would be nice. I know that Privoxy can do it, but IMHO Privoxy is an ugly solution.
People need to migrate ASAP to either Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Opera, so that web developers can begin to implement more advanced web sites using HTML5.
Check out this cool demo of Gmail using HTML5:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmjxmOtNZCk
Internet Explorer's default search engine is Microsoft Live Search.
Switch computer-illiterate people away from IE and to Chrome, and you also switch their search engine. It's more permanent than merely telling people how to change their default search engine, as an update from Microsoft could switch it back to Live Search.
And, of course, search (or rather, ads while you are searching) is what Google makes money from.
Microsoft is not aloud to modify programs that are not theirs...
I'll stick with FireFox and IE (I realize some of you just groaned, IE is useful on some sites :P).
this is my 2 cents
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- by Kuler89 May 15, 2009 2:30 AM PDT
- Why don't they simply implement google toolbar into chrome ? I prefer Chrome over mozilla but i neeed google toolbar!
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