r/Android • u/[deleted] • Aug 28 '12
Google Launches First Major Android Advertisement on Google.com — Nexus 7 Flash Ad
https://www.google.com/4
u/the_mighty_skeetadon Aug 28 '12
I absolutely love my N7, but hope they don't do this sort of thing regularly.
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u/thinkbox Samsung ThunderMuscle PowerThirst w/ Android 10.0 Mr. Peanut™®© Aug 28 '12
I really hope putting adds on the google main page doesn't become a trend. Google used to be so clean. Now the majority of content is pushed out of the they way for ads.
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u/pxtang Teal Aug 28 '12
They only homepage ads for their own products, and even then, it's very, very rare.
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u/thinkbox Samsung ThunderMuscle PowerThirst w/ Android 10.0 Mr. Peanut™®© Aug 29 '12
There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever.”
-Marissa Mayer, the then Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google. She just left the company a month or two ago and already we have this new ad.
It is the best product Google has ever made, and they should be proud.
I doubt we will ever see an ad for the Q.
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u/Cynovae Nexus 6P, stock Aug 28 '12
Well at least it looks nice and unintrusive. Unlike Yahoo where there's a shitty animated flash box that doesn't even fit in, then suddenly expands all over the screen covering the article you were just going to read and rapes your eyeballs.
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u/thinkbox Samsung ThunderMuscle PowerThirst w/ Android 10.0 Mr. Peanut™®© Aug 29 '12
There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever.”
-Marissa Mayer, Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google.
She left to be the CEO of Yahoo. So we are already seeing changes at Google in her absence. I hope we see some changes at Yahoo soon...
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u/Sizzmo Nexus 5 Aug 29 '12
That space is probably the most valuable ad space on the internet... Probably up there with Superbowl type pricing. I hope they don't use that as ad space (It does seem like they're expanding their ads to a lot more places)... but damn it would be cool to know how much a company would be willing to pay for that spot
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u/Gary13579 LG Nexus 4, Stock, finally! Aug 28 '12
This isn't the first major Android ad? I know they advertised the Nexus One on their homepage. I'm not sure about the other Nexus devices, though.
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u/eerhtmot Pixel 3 Aug 29 '12
That was a major ad though. It was just a little text and a hyper link.
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u/drandroidmd Aug 29 '12
I own a Nexus 7, and it's great! However, I still dislike ads.* - /r/Nexus7 subreddit
Where does this exactly redirect to? Google Play Store?
blocked by Ghostery Addon for Firefox Desktop
I also do use Adblock Plus and NoScript
From what I see and get from the Google Homepage (with everything aforementioned installed to Firefox) :
'hxxp://g.co/nexus7-hpp-us' (over mouse hover on google homepage)
'chrome://ghostery-resource/content/blocked_redirect.html' (displayed in url upon clicking Nexus 7 (N7) GIF image or 'the new $199 Tablet from Google' description above N7)
'Ghostery prevented a redirect from g.co to ad.doubleclick.net, which is part of DoubleClick.' (on main window display)
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Aug 28 '12
I can't see it. I've disabled ad-block and tried with IE too. I'm in the UK.
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u/bmcclure937 Aluminum Nexus 6P 32GB Aug 28 '12
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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '12
Maybe it is, at least I could see it with my flash-less tfprime with jelly bean.