Google didn't do anything about this until it hit news yesterday. It has been going on for quite a while. Companies don't just give money to other companies. They expect reports of their services. Google has known this. They did nothing until it hit news yesterday and it made them look bad and hypocritical.
On top of that it's not like their Chrome marketing is so clean anyway. They still keep paying OEM's and shareware/freeware authors to bundle Chrome with their computers or software. Every time someone installs Chrome the authors or OEM's get paid per install. Just like with toolbars and other low adware shit.
So evil is only evil when you're caught, I presume. On top of that they didn't even accept responsibility. They blamed someone else.
Google contracted its Web ads out to a firm called Essence Digital, which in turn asked a company called Unruly Media to implement the campaign.
Just the same way like JC Penney and others did, but back then people were outraged by the seo spam. But now that it's Google it's somehow holier than thou and Google is supposedly acting unlike any other company... by acting the same way those other companies acted!
It's how corporate world works. You establish new entities to do the dirty work for the "clean" parent company. For example, see this patent laundering done by Apple.
Oh please, they were caught and had to have some PR route out of it. This has been going on for months. It only became news now that big sites picked it up.
Back in the day Internet Explorer saved us everyone from the non-standard shit Netscape was trying to pull out. I guess you're too young to remember those days. If it wasn't for IE the web would be much worse now.
One thing I hate about CSS is that you can't just have good column style layout with it. It's just not designed for that. I still have to keep using tables with some stuff. And, on top of that, tables are much easier too.
Why? IE9 is a completely good browser. It's on par with Chrome, but in fact it offers even more features and security than Firefox does currently, like sandboxing. It's also standards compliant and supports HTML5. There's nothing to hate about IE9.
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Google didn't do anything about this until it hit news yesterday. It has been going on for quite a while. Companies don't just give money to other companies. They expect reports of their services. Google has known this. They did nothing until it hit news yesterday and it made them look bad and hypocritical.
On top of that it's not like their Chrome marketing is so clean anyway. They still keep paying OEM's and shareware/freeware authors to bundle Chrome with their computers or software. Every time someone installs Chrome the authors or OEM's get paid per install. Just like with toolbars and other low adware shit.
Google contracted its Web ads out to a firm called Essence Digital, which in turn asked a company called Unruly Media to implement the campaign.
Just the same way like JC Penney and others did, but back then people were outraged by the seo spam. But now that it's Google it's somehow holier than thou and Google is supposedly acting unlike any other company... by acting the same way those other companies acted!
Google contracted its Web ads out to a firm called Essence Digital, which in turn asked a company called Unruly Media to implement the campaign.
It's how corporate world works. You establish new entities to do the dirty work for the "clean" parent company. For example, see this patent laundering done by Apple.
Oh please, they were caught and had to have some PR route out of it. This has been going on for months. It only became news now that big sites picked it up.
Back in the day Internet Explorer saved us everyone from the non-standard shit Netscape was trying to pull out. I guess you're too young to remember those days. If it wasn't for IE the web would be much worse now.
One thing I hate about CSS is that you can't just have good column style layout with it. It's just not designed for that. I still have to keep using tables with some stuff. And, on top of that, tables are much easier too.
Why? IE9 is a completely good browser. It's on par with Chrome, but in fact it offers even more features and security than Firefox does currently, like sandboxing. It's also standards compliant and supports HTML5. There's nothing to hate about IE9.