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This is not "unprecedented" at all, see e.g. here: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/lf9egy/comment/iivz2db/ https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/lf9

• spoiler 4y ago
  I am not sure why you're being downvoted. Both the newtab (at the bottom of the page) and the search page have had subtle "ads" for google's new product launches. I remember seeing it for Stadia, and I remember seeing it for "Google One"
  • londons_explore 4y ago
    They also use it for non-google products. For example the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II had a hyperlink to "See todays events" on both places.
  • inerte 4y ago
    I believe* the first ad ever under the search bar at google.com was to download Firefox. They've been doing it for that long... * I think I read that in some book about Marissa Mayer and her decisions around the homepage.
• kuschku 4y ago
  Wasn't the Nexus 7 (2012) the first such ad? Aside from chrome itself bring advertised this way, that is.
  • jonas21 4y ago
    A decade before that they had an ad for the Google Search Appliance, which was the first physical product Google sold: https://web.archive.org/web/20020703150514/http://www.google.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20020703150514/http://www.google...
  • hgsgm 4y ago