No Way! Advertising On Google's Home Page?

No Way! Advertising On Google's Home Page?

Friday, November 06, 2009 - by Michael Santo
It's the third day in a row that Google has celebrated the upcoming 40th anniversary of Sesame Street with a different Google Doodle, but that's not what drew our attention to their home page. Google has always said it wants to keep their home page sparse, yet today, there was a rarity: an ad.

It's not as though Google has never put an ad on their home page (think back to Chrome, and the T-Mobile G1), and of course, this is Motorola Droid launch day, and there's nothing like highlighting your well advertised and much-hyped product, is there?



Granted, it's really Motorola's and Verizon's product, but still ...

At any rate, there's a hard limit of no more than 28 words on Google's home page, and this one weighs in at 27 words, so ad or no ad, it's OK by Google's standards.
Via: Google | News Archive | Tags: Google, Verizon, droid
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By 3vi1 on Nov 6, 2009

"Google: Now almost 1/5th as evil as Microsoft!"


evil@mars:~$ wget www.google.com
--2009-11-06 19:51:35-- http://www.google.com/
Resolving www.google.com... 64.233.169.99, 64.233.169.147, 64.233.169.106, ...
Connecting to www.google.com|64.233.169.99|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html'
[ ] 5,634 --.-K/s in 0.09s
2009-11-06 19:51:36 (59.0 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [5634]

evil@mars:~$ wget www.bing.com
--2009-11-06 19:54:08-- http://www.bing.com/
Resolving www.bing.com... 96.7.41.18, 96.7.41.26, 96.7.41.9
Connecting to www.bing.com|96.7.41.18|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 30223 (30K) [text/html]
Saving to: `index.html.1'
100%[=======================================================================================================================>] 30,223 --.-K/s in 0.1s
2009-11-06 19:54:08 (279 KB/s) - `index.html.1' saved [30223/30223]

By realneil on Nov 7, 2009

Compare it to the Yahoo front page and you may see a big difference.

This doesn't bother me at all, but I did notice it.

By gibbersome on Nov 7, 2009

Ahh, but I hate the Yahoo homepage, so cluttered. Love the cleanliness and simplicity of Google.

But the recent downturn in economy has seen a hit on Google's revenue, so I'm not completely surprised by this move. :/

By 3vi1 on Nov 8, 2009

Wow... you just made me realize how long it's been since I went to Yahoo's main page for anything.

It looks like they have a 9k page that immediately redirects you to a "personal" page that's 116K!  sheez.  No wonder MS was trying to buy them - they're getting out-eviled!  :p

By gibbersome on Nov 12, 2009

Ack! Well thats why the google homepage is the most widely visited on smart phones.

By bob_on_the_cob on Nov 12, 2009

At least Google and Bing homepages are clean. That yahoo page is cluttered and ugly. That was the first time I have been to the yahoo homepage in a long time as well 3vi1.

By kid007 on Nov 7, 2009

english please ?

By acarzt on Nov 7, 2009

Google.com homepage is 1/5 the size of Bing.com homepage

By 3vi1 on Nov 8, 2009

Thank you for translating acarzt. :)

By ClemSnide on Nov 8, 2009

Maybe their mom needed an operation or something.

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