Comments on: What if Google advertised on Television? http://notronwest.wordpress.com/2006/09/26/what-if-google-advertised-on-television/ Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:17:28 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: mikull http://notronwest.wordpress.com/2006/09/26/what-if-google-advertised-on-television/#comment-1024 mikull Wed, 27 Sep 2006 04:50:54 +0000 http://notronwest.wordpress.com/2006/09/26/what-if-google-advertised-on-television/#comment-1024 i wonder, would google lose it's 'net cred. (read: steet cred) if it did this? google always worked with being the "hey we made this- here, use it for free" approach, with stuff that actually worked for most intents and purposes. i always though google was really the first web 2.0 idea- something for nothing, fueled by the passion of the people who used it and preferred thanks to it's lack of NON-commercialism. most geeks praised the simple ad techniques google used to stay afloat all those years. with no advertising leading them to be the #1 search engine, they might be also thinking- why pay for something we already get for free? i mean, i see your point loud and clear, but who can avoid google? nearly every site out there has google ads- every geek rss feed is tracking google's steps- even yahoo uses the google engine. with the now countless alternatives google has developed, there's pretty much no escaping it. google doesn't need to advertise- it's a household name. as with a few other items on your list, i would say if the public doesn't know about them by now, they're not going to. and isn't that refreshing? products, so to speak, that prosper based soley on the stength of their services. i wish so many other things were like this. and fathom this: google is paying some of it's top adsense clients hundreds of thousands a month- i can almost respect a company that values it's true audience's support so strongly. i'm rambling, and it's late for me-- so i leave you with this: imagine if NO internet related products or services could advertise. would AOL finally just DIE? would all those travel websites that all do the same thing merge? perhaps; and if so, would major sponsors have to change the way they advertise? yeah, i won't hold my breath either. i remember when yahoo was it and google was this thing i kinda laughed about when i saw it at first. one step further: i remember when netscape was the rockin' alternative to IE. netscape now sucks, and advertises on TV. Firefox made IE it's bitch, and little things like flock (fate uncetain!) actually get breathing room running on the same code. IT's MADNESS I TELL YOU!! i wonder, would google lose it’s ‘net cred. (read: steet cred) if it did this? google always worked with being the “hey we made this- here, use it for free” approach, with stuff that actually worked for most intents and purposes. i always though google was really the first web 2.0 idea- something for nothing, fueled by the passion of the people who used it and preferred thanks to it’s lack of NON-commercialism. most geeks praised the simple ad techniques google used to stay afloat all those years. with no advertising leading them to be the #1 search engine, they might be also thinking- why pay for something we already get for free?

i mean, i see your point loud and clear, but who can avoid google? nearly every site out there has google ads- every geek rss feed is tracking google’s steps- even yahoo uses the google engine. with the now countless alternatives google has developed, there’s pretty much no escaping it. google doesn’t need to advertise- it’s a household name.

as with a few other items on your list, i would say if the public doesn’t know about them by now, they’re not going to. and isn’t that refreshing? products, so to speak, that prosper based soley on the stength of their services.

i wish so many other things were like this. and fathom this: google is paying some of it’s top adsense clients hundreds of thousands a month- i can almost respect a company that values it’s true audience’s support so strongly. i’m rambling, and it’s late for me–

so i leave you with this: imagine if NO internet related products or services could advertise. would AOL finally just DIE? would all those travel websites that all do the same thing merge? perhaps; and if so, would major sponsors have to change the way they advertise? yeah, i won’t hold my breath either. i remember when yahoo was it and google was this thing i kinda laughed about when i saw it at first. one step further: i remember when netscape was the rockin’ alternative to IE. netscape now sucks, and advertises on TV. Firefox made IE it’s bitch, and little things like flock (fate uncetain!) actually get breathing room running on the same code. IT’s MADNESS I TELL YOU!!

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