Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[77dave]

Brand Power / Advertising / Profits

For years Barcalona were the only major team with no shirt sponsor.

Now they pay UNICEF to have there name on there shirts

[Bongo]

"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?

And risk losing even bigger billions when people switch to someone else because "the ad makes the page load too slowly"

Google tend to do things for 2 reasons - to sell ads on the space, or to gather information about people to allow them to sell more targeted ads.

In many ways they are quite scary.

[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.

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?

Not at all, but internet-savvy folk use a whole different language to me, & I simply dont understand what these expressions mean. I don't have a clue what a Web-Browser is, or looks like, or what it does, or even if I need one, & my computer works OK, so I'm just curious what the fuss is about. And I wish people would speak in plain English.

[tikay]

"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?

And risk losing even bigger billions when people switch to someone else because "the ad makes the page load too slowly"

Google tend to do things for 2 reasons - to sell ads on the space, or to gather information about people to allow them to sell more targeted ads.

In most ways they are quite superb. And free-to-user.

FYP

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I wish people would speak in plain English.

What, even the sciolists?

[tikay]

 this one might be better than the one you currently use

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

Exactly. Case rested.

[Laxie]

You're using a web browser to view the forum right now, you just didn't know it...and I can promise you have no idea which one you're using.  

[tikay]

I wish people would speak in plain English.

What, even the sciolists?

Especially the sciolists.

[Bongo]

Free in terms of doesn't cost anything, but there is a cost in privacy. Much like supermarket loyalty cards.

[tikay]

You're using a web browser to view the forum right now, you just didn't know it...and I can promise you have no idea which one you're using.  

Wrong. It's a Toshiba Equium. State-of-the-art bit of kit unless I'm very much mistaken.

[kinboshi]

Free in terms of doesn't cost anything, but there is a cost in privacy. Much like supermarket loyalty cards.

...and their results can be manipulated - if you have the resources.

[kinboshi]

You're using a web browser to view the forum right now, you just didn't know it...and I can promise you have no idea which one you're using.  

Wrong. It's a Toshiba Equium. State-of-the-art bit of kit unless I'm very much mistaken.

[Laxie]

You're using a web browser to view the forum right now, you just didn't know it...and I can promise you have no idea which one you're using.  

Wrong. It's a Toshiba Equium. State-of-the-art bit of kit unless I'm very much mistaken.

I'll let you explain this time. 

[77dave]

Life was so much easier when Boldie was at his old job

[MereNovice]

You're using a web browser to view the forum right now, you just didn't know it...and I can promise you have no idea which one you're using.  

Wrong. It's a Toshiba Equium. State-of-the-art bit of kit unless I'm very much mistaken.

It's more likely to be called "Internet Explorer" or "Mozilla Firefox" - but I'm just guessing.