Google goes slightly crazy for the Droid, puts text ad on homepage
November 6, 2009 | by Robert Nelson
It seems that just about everyone has gone a little crazy for the Droid. On the current Google homepage, you can now find an ad for the Droid. Short and simple, it reads;
“New! The Droid is on sale now. Learn more.”
Of course, this is in addition to the picture of Bert and Ernie which is being displayed in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street. But back to the Droid ad, if clicked, the “Learn More” link will take you to yet another Google page with a little and I do mean a little more information about the Verizon Droid. Then from there, you can either choose to learn (even) more or proceed to purchase the phone.
All things considered, while I find it nice to see that Google is promoting the Verizon Droid, I think I prefer the usual standard of keeping the Google homepage ad free. That said, the page still does come in at 27 words, which for those keeping track is just under the 28 word rule that Google maintains.
[via TechCrunch]
Number of people in line for Droid? Somewhere approaching zero.
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Google has too much power? Like advertising on their own homepage? Wow, poor ron.
Yeah, how dare they support a company-related product on their home page? How dare they be popular and use that popularity to promote things they want to succed?
Guys google is an awesome company. Did you know google employees are encouraged to take 20% of a work day to work on projects that interest them? this founded amazing services such as Gmail, and Google Earth.
The company believes that all information be available and be accessible at any time any where.
If you dont beleive me, then do a little research and see for yourself.
My suggestions are the following
Forget ques for phone..Droid and Android are set to conquer and beat anybody out there.. But the following needs to be done
1. Google should not release a phone but stick to Android development and management.
2. Google should prevent fragmentation of Android and also shold have a app store that runs on all google phones and make there money here
3. All other Android phone makers should share say $1 per phone with Google for Android development. Nothing comes free right?
4. Google should initiate apps development with all Android developers like competition etc to get the appstore cover more than 200,000 and even more soon
Kinda off-topic: Is Google developing an Operating System?
Where have you been for the past year?
well that's absurd. If you look a the screen shot posted above, there are clearly 27.
How does someone with an education level as low as your's find this blog?
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