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There's some conjecture involved but I would be very surprised if Google actually sold AdWords for their own browser.
by woogley 10y ago
There's some conjecture involved but I would be very surprised if Google actually sold AdWords for their own browser.
- anon1385 10y agoThey certainly have done in the past: http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png http://i.imgur.com/yVIMYKO.png Taken from a comment I wrote a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7335401
- ceejayoz 10y agoDeliberately? No, of course not. They can't just ban the word "Chrome" from AdWords, though. Spammers/malware authors are very good at figuring out what's needed to slip through the automated systems.
- MichaelGG 10y agoThey've done this for Skype too. And the funnier thing is when I reported it to Skype, they claimed it was "OK" because it said TOM in the description (Skype's Chinese sponsor). Except the link did not have anything to do with Skype or TOM.
- nitrogen 10y agoAlso important tools like PuTTY.