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Source? I don't remember such an ad. Speaking as a dev, the dev tools had a ton to do with it.

progval 7y ago
> Source? I don't remember such an ad. I too remember seeing this ad every time on Google's search page, but it's hard to search for articles mentioning it now, because any search on keywords "google chrome ads" return completely unrelated results. There are these old questions: * https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0FrX8mjNQu-k/ https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0FrX8mjNQu... * https://support.google.com/websearch/forum/AAAAgtjJeM41xpRdM-u1EU/ https://support.google.com/websearch/forum/AAAAgtjJeM41xpRdM... * https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B08liXq3dy9TM https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B08liXq3dy9... * https://www.quora.com/Why-am-I-being-shown-ads-for-Google-Chrome-despite-using-it https://www.quora.com/Why-am-I-being-shown-ads-for-Google-Ch... Also this news piece: https://www.techspot.com/news/79940-how-youtube-employees-killed-internet-explorer-6.html https://www.techspot.com/news/79940-how-youtube-employees-ki... While the article is about Google advertising three different browser in that particular banner, you can see on the screenshot there is another ad, that is just for Google Chrome. That's the ad that was shown all the time on Google Search and Youtube.
- unityByFreedom 7y ago
  Thanks! I guess the Chrome ads on Google/Youtube show the influence devs can have after all =)
thekyle 7y ago
Here's a video that shows old Google homepages, the ad seemed to first appear sometime around 2013: https://youtu.be/LZ46uE267Nc?t=93 https://youtu.be/LZ46uE267Nc?t=93 Disclaimer: I am the creator of the video
ridiculous_fish 7y ago
The ad is still there, now it pushes the google app: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/1181047966422855680 https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/11810479664228556... There’s also a popover div ad in gmail: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/1081074389133680640 https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10810743891336806...

> Source? I don't remember such an ad. I too remember seeing this ad every time on Google's search page, but it's hard to search for articles mentioning it now, because any search on keywords "google chrome ads" return completely unrelated results. There are these old questions: * https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0FrX8mjNQu-k/ https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B0FrX8mjNQu... * https://support.google.com/websearch/forum/AAAAgtjJeM41xpRdM-u1EU/ https://support.google.com/websearch/forum/AAAAgtjJeM41xpRdM... * https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B08liXq3dy9TM https://support.google.com/chrome/forum/AAAAP1KN0B08liXq3dy9... * https://www.quora.com/Why-am-I-being-shown-ads-for-Google-Chrome-despite-using-it https://www.quora.com/Why-am-I-being-shown-ads-for-Google-Ch... Also this news piece: https://www.techspot.com/news/79940-how-youtube-employees-killed-internet-explorer-6.html https://www.techspot.com/news/79940-how-youtube-employees-ki... While the article is about Google advertising three different browser in that particular banner, you can see on the screenshot there is another ad, that is just for Google Chrome. That's the ad that was shown all the time on Google Search and Youtube.

unityByFreedom 7y ago
Thanks! I guess the Chrome ads on Google/Youtube show the influence devs can have after all =)

thekyle 7y ago

Here's a video that shows old Google homepages, the ad seemed to first appear sometime around 2013: https://youtu.be/LZ46uE267Nc?t=93 https://youtu.be/LZ46uE267Nc?t=93 Disclaimer: I am the creator of the video

ridiculous_fish 7y ago

The ad is still there, now it pushes the google app: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/1181047966422855680 https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/11810479664228556... There’s also a popover div ad in gmail: https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/1081074389133680640 https://twitter.com/ridiculous_fish/status/10810743891336806...