Google’s TV Commercials

The weekend is almost over, and I have had the television on, in the background, for most of the weekend. I have been doing lots of other things, but had the television on specifically to see the Google commercials I had heard so much about.

I had been moving from channel to channel, hoping to have the best chance of seeing one, but with no results. I then went to a web page that was pointing to the ad which is already on YouTube.

I must say I get it, but then after getting it, what’s the point? Yes, Chrome is clean and easy, it is uncluttered – whoopee. The austerity is precisely why I don’t like it. If I wanted something really stripped down, with just the basics, I’d look through my old CDs for a copy of Internet Exploder 3, which Microsoft was so fond of including on CDs included with magazines on the newsstand – much as back then many magazines had the obligatory AOL CD.

It is not simply because I don’t like Chrome that I’m writing this. I’m wondering what has changed with Google. After all, have you ever seen a commercial for Google, the search engine? I haven’t. Not ever. Google used to let its code do the talking – and it did it very well.

So with all the success that Google has had with its search product, why change what works now? Beyond that, how does Google benefit from the browser, since there are no ads in it, being displayed while one browses?

These are questions I believe deserve answers (and not quips), Though I don’t think of anything sinister happening, in the spirit of openness I think answers should be forthcoming.

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