Google to get more graphical

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:47 pm

The executives close to the talks said that at AOL's request, Google would begin to test various forms of graphical ads, and that it would make the same formats available to other advertisers. Google has started to sell graphical ads for placement on other sites; plans to do so on Google itself were accelerated by the AOL talks, an executive involved in the negotiations said.

wonderful. ghey-OL does it again.

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:50 pm

yay, fucking AOL is back shitting all over the internet

Post by **losCHUNK** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:56 pm

i blame the aol users

Post by **jester!** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:00 pm

Thats to bad.

Post by **BlueGene** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:00 pm

Bad move for Google, they were viewed as a respectable internet company. Now they will be viewed as another greedy coporate company.

(bah, can't make a post because I get php errors)

Post by **PhoeniX** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:11 pm

Adblock will sort it I guess. If the ads are related to my search, then I don't mind too much (most of the text ads are useful links from what I'm searching anyway)

Post by **Dave** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:16 pm

Before you start shitting on AOL

plans to do so on Google itself were accelerated by the AOL talks

This infers that Google was going to do it all along...

Post by **CheapAlert** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:20 pm

GOOGLE SEARCH PAY PLUS! You can search beyond PAGE 5 if you sign up for AOL!

the future of the internet is now a whole lot darker.

Post by **mik0rs** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:41 pm

OH FUCK OFF AOL

Post by **Turbine** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:07 pm

That is what happenes when America gets OnLine.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:09 pm

AOL is the iceberg, change course.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:33 pm

Dave wrote:Before you start shitting on AOL

plans to do so on Google itself were accelerated by the AOL talks
This infers that Google was going to do it all along...

I agree...all the blame shouldnt fall on AOL alone.

Post by **andyman** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:43 pm

mik0rs wrote:OH FUCK OFF AOL

Post by ek » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:11 pm

AOL, they fuck everything up. Infact they are the defintion of fuck-up.

Post by **Foo** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:15 pm

blahblah.

There's life after Google. The same liberal business space still exists in the web which provided the launchpad for google's amazing rise in the first place.

I.E. If google gets shit, something else can and will replace it.

Google wasn't always the #1 search engine, for example. There's probably some here who don't even remember that.

You bloody kids. Get off my lawn.

Post by **BlueGene** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:38 pm

I remember altavista, web crawler & yahoo. I would say yahoo is pretty good, try doing a search on both you will see they are almost on par with each other.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:06 am

the only reason i (and many other people) stared using google way back in the 90's is because it was so minimalistic.
the worst thing they can do is add graphics and yahoo-style faggottry.

Post by **mjrpes** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:16 am

The minute I start seeing flashing banners on google is the minute I switch to another search engine.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:25 am

Foo wrote:blahblah.

There's life after Google. The same liberal business space still exists in the web which provided the launchpad for google's amazing rise in the first place.

I.E. If google gets shit, something else can and will replace it.

Google wasn't always the #1 search engine, for example. There's probably some here who don't even remember that.

You bloody kids. Get off my lawn.

agreed, but Google is becoming much more than any of the search engines before it, and has a monstrous presence on the entire internet, where the word Google is not only a noun, but a verb and is synonymous with search. how many of the past search engines can make a claim like that? none.

i do like some of the things google is doing and has done (free wi-fi and gmail for instance), but they sure are getting their hands into everything and just about everyone, which raises an eyebrow oft times from me.

Post by **eepberries** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:39 am

mjrpes wrote:The minute I start seeing flashing banners on google is the minute I switch to another search engine.

Truth

Post by **glossy** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:54 am

mjrpes wrote:The minute I start seeing flashing banners on google is the minute I switch to another search engine.

no, you'll only see huge flashing banners on google adsense pages -- websites that advertise through google's system. google will be probably be ad-free forever.

p.s. Web 2.0 ewww

Post by **Transient** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:43 am

mjrpes wrote:The minute I start seeing flashing banners on google is the minute I switch to another search engine.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:45 am

glossy wrote:google will be probably be ad-free forever.

wut?

Post by **sliver** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:58 am

i assume he means graphic ads

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:07 am

Google is waay more than just another search engine.

How about this:

Google is buying huge amounts of dark fiber, and placing their own data centers all over the globe, effectively creating an Internet of their own, parallell to the existing one.

Microsoft are forced to adapt their future strategy to the new conditions created by Google. That means moving their focus towards subscription based online services instead of commodity products. Windows Vista for free, but charging for virus/spyware protection, support, data storage etc.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051124.html

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051201.html