A slap in the face...
Apr. 29th, 2009 09:28 amI don't know if I mentioned this before, but some time ago, it suddenly dawned on me that any client of mine who uses Google mail will be pelted with ads from my competition every time they open a message from me.
I was jarringly reminded of the "service" that Google provides when I visited a site that offers a free - and apparently pretty good - CD/DVD burning product called ImgBurn (the recommendation comes via Lifehacker). When the site is rendered, the first graphic to hit my eye at the ImgBurn site was an ad for a competing product called Express Burn (which I bought 3+ years ago, but cannot find installed on any current machines, and whose license appears to have "run out").
Then again, I wonder what the likelihood is of a display ad like that tipping the scale just enough to cause a visitor to click on it?
Cheers...
I was jarringly reminded of the "service" that Google provides when I visited a site that offers a free - and apparently pretty good - CD/DVD burning product called ImgBurn (the recommendation comes via Lifehacker). When the site is rendered, the first graphic to hit my eye at the ImgBurn site was an ad for a competing product called Express Burn (which I bought 3+ years ago, but cannot find installed on any current machines, and whose license appears to have "run out").
Then again, I wonder what the likelihood is of a display ad like that tipping the scale just enough to cause a visitor to click on it?
Cheers...