Google To Air Chrome Ads On TV 148
mikesd81 writes "Google plans on advertising with spots promoting its Chrome browser this weekend. Google Japan had already released a 30-second video promoting Chrome on YouTube, but the company will distribute that video through the Google TV Ads network this weekend as an experiment to see if it can drum up interest in Chrome. Google advertised their browser on the New York Times' website on Wednesday."
How about actually getting the mac version out? (Score:5, Interesting)
How about actually getting the mac version up and running before spending tons of time on tv ad production?
for christ sake they've been promising a beta for how long now?
Safari used to be zippy, but, despite being the best option for mac right now, has some nasty habits and memory leaks. I'd like to see what chrome can offer.
Re:I'm not sure why this is such a big deal (Score:5, Interesting)
It's a big deal, because google has jumped the shark and become a big company. Why do they need to buy TV adds? They *are* an advertising company.
Re:TV ad spots are a great idea... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:At last Spyware for everyone ! (Score:4, Interesting)
Fact remains that Chrome gives you a very smooth experience. It's quick (major concern for me), very handy start page (there's probably a ff plugin that does that too), download manager is an improvement; tab dragging to open a new window is very useful. The only thing that sucks is the bookmark manager.
If you don't like the usage tracking then there's always the opensource clone SRWare Iron.
Re:At last Spyware for everyone ! (Score:1, Interesting)
The download manager is an improvement? I guess its all preference but I strongly have to disagree -- In chrome downloads are per tab, so its very easy to forget which tab you started along download in once you switch away or start navigating to other sites.
Also if you close chromes window the downloads stop.
Contrast to firefox which keeps the download manager separate