Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[MereNovice]

One of your favourite companies, Google, has been busy and are launching a web browser...

There's a 40 page comic explaining it all here:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

A rather interesting move I thought.

If it does what it says on the tin, this should be a boon.

[tikay]

One of your favourite companies, Google, has been busy and are launching a web browser...

There's a 40 page comic explaining it all here:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

A rather interesting move I thought.

google most certainly are one of my favourite companies, I honestly think they are helping change the world for the better, & they could charge fortunes for a service we get completely free.

But as the extent of my knowledge as to what a "web browser" does, or is, is similar to Ding's knowledge of a googly, I shall not be availing myself of their new "Web Browser".

I love google.

I would think that the google home page is the most valuable piece of online advertising real-estate on virtual earth - and yet it does not carry a sngle advert. No adverts, no music, no pop-ups, just a blank page, plain, white, with a search box in the middle. And ultra, ultra, fast.

The perfect product.

[Bongo]

I'd think their results pages would be more valuable as they can tell exactly what you're looking for there... and they carry lots of ads

[kinboshi]

One of your favourite companies, Google, has been busy and are launching a web browser...

There's a 40 page comic explaining it all here:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

A rather interesting move I thought.

google most certainly are one of my favourite companies, I honestly think they are helping change the world for the better, & they could charge fortunes for a service we get completely free.

But as the extent of my knowledge as to what a "web browser" does, or is, is similar to Ding's knowledge of a googly, I shall not be availing myself of their new "Web Browser".

I love google.

I would think that the google home page is the most valuable piece of online advertising real-estate on virtual earth - and yet it does not carry a sngle advert. No adverts, no music, no pop-ups, just a blank page, plain, white, with a search box in the middle. And ultra, ultra, fast.

The perfect product.

Don't understand that bit in bold.  Can you expand please?

[Laxie]

Don't bother.  It's gobbledy gook.

[RED-DOG]

Don't bother.  It's gobbledy gook.

 

[tikay]

One of your favourite companies, Google, has been busy and are launching a web browser...

There's a 40 page comic explaining it all here:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

A rather interesting move I thought.

google most certainly are one of my favourite companies, I honestly think they are helping change the world for the better, & they could charge fortunes for a service we get completely free.

But as the extent of my knowledge as to what a "web browser" does, or is, is similar to Ding's knowledge of a googly, I shall not be availing myself of their new "Web Browser".

I love google.

I would think that the google home page is the most valuable piece of online advertising real-estate on virtual earth - and yet it does not carry a sngle advert. No adverts, no music, no pop-ups, just a blank page, plain, white, with a search box in the middle. And ultra, ultra, fast.

The perfect product.

Don't understand that bit in bold.  Can you expand please?

Easy.

What is a web-browser, & why do I need one? I manage just fine right now.

[tikay]

I'd think their results pages would be more valuable as they can tell exactly what you're looking for there... and they carry lots of ads

You miss the pioint.

How many billion hits per day does that homepage get?

The results pages do carry, discretely (on the right hand side, so I don't get confused, or have to click them), adverts, 'tis true, but they are beautifully & piercingly-well "targeted" adverts. And that methodology is well on the way to killing traditional & incredibly wasteful print-media advertising, glory be. Have you ever thought about the "hit rate" of a newspaper advert? 1%? 2% The google ads ONLY target those who seek that very product. Genius.

[Bongo]

What would the hit rate of an ad on the google home page be?

People are going there to perform an action, that isn't going to see them stay on the page very long or even look around too much.

[kinboshi]

One of your favourite companies, Google, has been busy and are launching a web browser...

There's a 40 page comic explaining it all here:

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/

A rather interesting move I thought.

google most certainly are one of my favourite companies, I honestly think they are helping change the world for the better, & they could charge fortunes for a service we get completely free.

But as the extent of my knowledge as to what a "web browser" does, or is, is similar to Ding's knowledge of a googly, I shall not be availing myself of their new "Web Browser".

I love google.

I would think that the google home page is the most valuable piece of online advertising real-estate on virtual earth - and yet it does not carry a sngle advert. No adverts, no music, no pop-ups, just a blank page, plain, white, with a search box in the middle. And ultra, ultra, fast.

The perfect product.

Don't understand that bit in bold.  Can you expand please?

Easy.

What is a web-browser, & why do I need one? I manage just fine right now.

You use one very day - and this one might be better than the one you currently use (it might not be, but that's irrelevant).  So just because you don't know the term 'web-browser' - you've decided you don't need one.  

If you didn't know what an aorta was, would you say the same thing?

[Bongo]

You use one very day - and this one might be better than the one you currently use (it might not be, but that's irrelevant).  So just because you don't know the term 'web-browser' - you've decided you don't need one.  

It's the very same attitude that's been string out a Microsoft monopoly for many years.

[kinboshi]

I'd think their results pages would be more valuable as they can tell exactly what you're looking for there... and they carry lots of ads

You miss the pioint.

How many billion hits per day does that homepage get?

The results pages do carry, discretely (on the right hand side, so I don't get confused, or have to click them), adverts, 'tis true, but they are beutfully & piercingly-well "targeted" adverts. And that methodology is well on the way to killing traditional & incredibly wasteful print-media advertising, glory be. Have you ever thought about the "hit rate" of a newspaper advert? 1%? 2% The google ads ONLY target those who seek that very product. Genius.

What's more genius is that the concept was created by a company called goto (then Overture) which was bought out by Yahoo!.  We all know the Yahoo! and Google story, and so that's twice that Google have thrown them a googly (should that be a Googley?) worth billions of dollars.

[tikay]

What would the hit rate of an ad on the google home page be?

People are going there to perform an action, that isn't going to see them stay on the page very long or even look around too much.

Widen your mind, you miss the point again.

"Profile-Raising", "Brand-awareness" advertising does not require hits. Vodafone, GE, Sony, Honda, Coca-Cola, da de da, would pay an absolute fortune to get on that home-page. But google refuse to allow it, costing themselves billions of $$'s per year. Which I think is a marvellous thing. Don't you?

Search, Maps, Images, what a wonderful resource, all completely free to everyone in the world. Provided by a commercial company. It's unique - who else does that?

[tikay]

I'd think their results pages would be more valuable as they can tell exactly what you're looking for there... and they carry lots of ads

You miss the pioint.

How many billion hits per day does that homepage get?

The results pages do carry, discretely (on the right hand side, so I don't get confused, or have to click them), adverts, 'tis true, but they are beutfully & piercingly-well "targeted" adverts. And that methodology is well on the way to killing traditional & incredibly wasteful print-media advertising, glory be. Have you ever thought about the "hit rate" of a newspaper advert? 1%? 2% The google ads ONLY target those who seek that very product. Genius.

What's more genius is that the concept was created by a company called goto (then Overture) which was bought out by Yahoo!.  We all know the Yahoo! and Google story, and so that's twice that Google have thrown them a googly (should that be a Googley?) worth billions of dollars.

Correct. They've barely missed a single trick, they've trumped everyone, at every step.

[RED-DOG]

 this one might be better than the one you currently use

That's what Chili said about the phone...