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Google to get more graphical
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:47 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:50 pm
by Grudge
yay, fucking AOL is back shitting all over the internet
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 4:56 pm
by losCHUNK
i blame the aol users
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:00 pm
by jester!
Thats to bad.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:00 pm
by BlueGene
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)
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:11 pm
by PhoeniX
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)
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:16 pm
by Dave
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...
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 5:20 pm
by CheapAlert
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 6:41 pm
by mik0rs
OH FUCK OFF AOL
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:07 pm
by Turbine
That is what happenes when America gets OnLine.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:09 pm
by Massive Quasars
AOL is the iceberg, change course.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:33 pm
by Chupacabra
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 8:43 pm
by andyman
mik0rs wrote:OH FUCK OFF AOL
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:11 pm
by ek
AOL, they fuck everything up. Infact they are the defintion of fuck-up.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:15 pm
by Foo
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:38 pm
by BlueGene
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:06 am
by Dr_Watson
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.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:16 am
by mjrpes
The minute I start seeing flashing banners on google is the minute I switch to another search engine.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:25 am
by +JuggerNaut+
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 every
one, which raises an eyebrow oft times from me.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:39 am
by eepberries
mjrpes wrote:The minute I start seeing flashing banners on google is the minute I switch to another search engine.
Truth
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 2:54 am
by glossy
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
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:43 am
by Transient
mjrpes wrote:The minute I start seeing flashing banners on google is the minute I switch to another search engine.
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:45 am
by +JuggerNaut+
glossy wrote:google will be probably be ad-free forever.
wut?
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 7:58 am
by sliver
i assume he means graphic ads
Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2005 8:07 am
by Grudge
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