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Probably

Yes and I'll tell you what it likely is. There's something supposedly new out. Most people want to see if that something new serves them better. Once the initial test surge subsides you'll find the true market equalibrium.

Jasoco wrote:

Ice Cream Man wrote:

Yes, it's pretty gay if you have to advertise your search engine.  Can't say I've ever seen a Google ad on tv.

I've seen ads for Yahoo! I remember ads for Excite. I remember ads for HotBot. But never once have we ever seen an ad for Google. Google just is. And people know it is. And therefore they don't need to spend millions of dollars to advertise.

And that is the reason I think Bing will fail just like everyone else has. In fact, isn't this like the 4th search engine MS has tried to put out to kill Google in the last 10 years?

You probably never will. Google is probably the only 100 billion dollar company that doesn't advertise. As far as I am concerned they also own You Tube. Have you ever seen a you tube ad. You never will.
I guess because the people at the top of google's headquarters are in their 30s (2 of their 3 ceos) they have the ability to think like young people  that browse and are more creative or know how to choose projects more creatively than most other ceos. The third ceo at google is more like a supervisor.

Do you see youtube ads on tv? I thought not.
Where do you think Google gets most its revenues? From ads. The search engine is free. But to advertise your website; or product through google cost ya some $$$$.

Have you seen ads on gmail. Yes. Google earth has a paid version. yatta yatta yatta yatta.

Last edited by gd (2009-06-26 11:16 pm)

Bat wrote:

And yet it's gaining share.

Because it's the default search service for IE.

mo' ron wrote:

Bat wrote:

And yet it's gaining share.

Because it's the default search service for IE.

By that logic it should've enjoyed an almost immediate, much larger share gain more nearly commensurate with browser share, then lost some as people reverted to Google, Yahoo etc.

I wouldn't expect YT TV ads, with Google the literal owner. By the time YT launched, viral marketing and the Google connection were quite enough. Don't remember Facebook, Myspace etc. ads either. Ads cost money, and some services don't need them esp. for the target demographic. If the intial demog is largely college age, word of mouth/text msg- now tweets- are enough. Or.. Google ads.

STOP!

Hammer time!






The topic is Bing. It sucks.

Why is it that in English you call stuff by the brands that popurlarized it instead of the given name that has been approved.

And total common usage of a brand name can result in the brandname losing it's unique legal position.

Look at band-aid.

is AltaVista still operating?

They all still do surprisingly. Even Excite who started their ad campaign around the same time Windows 95 was "Starting me up".

ukimalefu wrote:

That's what she said.

Oooh boy.