Google Promotes Gmail on Home Page

Mar 15, 2005 - 9:19 am 1 by
Filed Under Misc Google

Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped reports that some are seeing Gmail Ads on the Google.com homepage.

Google has started advertising their Gmail service on the Google front-page. You can�t always see it (I can�t); there might be the usual geo-location targeting the US only, or some other randomization.

I am in NY, USA and I do not see it. But someone has:

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update: Aaron Swartz has more on this....

 

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