They've also been pushing their Blogger service on the Google UK home page using the following text:
Your ideas are important. Share them online with Blogger.
(The word "Blogger" simply links to the http://www.blogger.com home page.) |
Why is it a news?
Cant they advertise their own thing on their damn website? |
I didn't say the can't, though I don't think the argument "it's their own website" is valid. Because with that argument, they could do anything... have pop-ups on their homepage ("it's their damn website"), delete results of republicans ("it's their damn search results"), or sell my emails sent via Gmail in an auction ("it's their damn data"). And no, I'm not saying their ads are any action of that evil sort.
On a side-note, I've just asked Google if they pay for their own ads. |
they have ads for a lot of thier services. i bet they do pay for them, pointless as that might be.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=news&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=google+groups&btnG=Search http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&q=desktop+search&btnG=Search
in theory, if the ads werent worth it then google would be losing, by not getting per click revenue. |
On a side-note, when Google advertises for itself, the ads might end up on other sites than it's own... because of AdSense, which webmasters include. E.g. I just saw an ad for "Urchin by Google." |