- Good heavens is pretty much anyplace on earth vulnerable to earthquakes these days? (The answer is yes.) [NBC Chicago]
- Childhood obesity is here to stay, due to motorcars and iPods, and there is nothing Michelle Obama and her fancy arms can do about THAT. [AP]
- A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that people are starting to come around to liking Republicans again, because of all they’ve done for America in the last year. [Washington Post]
- Looks like the Europeans (Germany) are going to bail out Greece after all. [Reuters]
- Hmm, somebody didn’t care for the “how to meet and impregnate a French girl in six Google searches” commercial during the Super Bowl. [Wall Street Journal]
- Jay Leno broadcast his last 10 PM show and nobody cared. [Los Angeles Times]
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How could *anybody* not like the Google ad? Its virtues were highlighted by the other ads being complete crap. And I ain’t gonna subscribe to the WSJ to read about it.
That wasn’t an earthquake in Chicago you sillies. It was all those obese kiddies in the ‘burbs rolling out of bed for school at the same time.
As for the WaPo poll ….
Today, we’re all fucking retards.
Some of us pofoke don’t have schmancy subscriptions to the Noonington Banking Pamphlet of Rue de Wall, so could someone summarize?
GOD WAS MAKING HIS JUDGEMENT ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION! SEE SEE GOD HATES CHICAGO !!!!!!! AMERIKA AMERIKA AMERIKA!
Wow did I channel something? ewwwwwwwwwwww it stinks…
Just goes to show that US America is indeed Candyland.
On the other hand, the poll is from ABC, whose RWer tendencies are well known.
America likes Republicans again?
This just shows what happens when several generations are raised by a TeeVee. Their attention span is shorter than Limbaugh’s dick and they… they… ummmm.
What was I talking about?
Oh, yes.
I like Pandas!
Dead-tree-media giant WSJ tells Google how it might achieve success. Brilliant!
[re=510496]vkladchik[/re]: With pleasure (two words changed so it won’t violate copyright)…
Here is a question no amount of searches on Google will help answer: Why did Google choose the one product it doesn’t need to advertise for its first Super Bowl commercial?
It doesn’t hurt Google to promote its search engine, of course, even if it already has roughly two-thirds of the market. And Microsoft has been gaining share, with its Bing search engine showing 6% more queries in December from November, while Google was up only 2%, comScore estimates. Then again, Bing is starting from a smaller base. Google actually added more than twice as many search queries as Bing in the month.
What it may signal is that Google, after long relying heavily on word of mouth, is learning how to market itself, something that will be important as its business diversifies. Using only its own outlets for promotion, such as YouTube, on which the Super Bowl ad first appeared, isn’t enough for a company looking to reach a broad mix of consumers.
Indeed, Google in the past year has bought TV spots to promote its Chrome browser and billboards to advertise its business-applications suite. It invested more on marketing in the fourth quarter as part of an effort to “accelerate our growth,” Google said recently.
So, then, why is Google not using television to promote its Nexus One cellphone? The company is focusing its promotional efforts online for now, it has said. But that may be a mistake, given that Google’s new smart phone is just one of many in a competitive market. Rival phones are pushed heavily on television and in print media.
Google is clearly skilled at selling online ads. But formulating a coherent marketing strategy for itself remains a work in progress.
Here’s the buried lede: “The president and his allies have started a new political offensive”; but using it would have reversed the orbital direction of the planets, I guess.
[re=510492]TGY[/re]: I agree, the Google ad was really good. And Wall Street is filled with idiots, as recent history has proven.
I was making fun of the google ad before it ended (yelling out searches such as “STD” and “bloody dick chancre sores”.
thx
Next there will be reports of a tsunami on Lake Michigan.
Living in Europe, I did not see the Stupid Bowl or any of the ads. So, intrigued by the headline, I clicked on the link, as I would very much like to learn how to impregnate a French girl in 6 easy google searches. You can imagine my disappointment.
Greece has finally stopped hoping that Jason was going to show up with the blingy wool and save their economy.
People are starting to like Republicans again because Democrats have not been doing their job, which is putting Republicans in jail. Nobody likes a slacker.
haha me’n the cat jumped awake at 4am and I’m 200 miles from the epicenter. The dog,
on the other hand, snored on..
[re=510495]El Pinche[/re]: I am just so fucking pissed at the Admin’s epic fail to stop the GOP from shitting all over them for 12 months.
Why are they not on the teevee thing every Sunday morning and the every night pointing out how Republicans are fucking lying about everything??? NPR interviewed Jane Mayer about her piece in the New Yorker re: Holder and the whole “why should the damn terrist get rights!!!???” fiasco. She went on and on about how Holder even informed the GOP back in Dec what was going on with this underwear bomber guy and no one gave a crap until they realized they could score cheap shots with being hypocrites. It makes my blood boil.
Someone needs to keep telling Hopey that nice guys finish last.
Silly people, the Google ad was an image reinforcement ad. The purpose is to reassure us that yes, we are using the absolute best search engine, the best browser, the best email and if I do decide to put my (apparently indestructible Sony Ericsson z500a) to rest, I will certainly give the Google product a good look.
If you have not tried the Chrome browser I encourage to with my word of mouth , here also, to do so now to support the troops. Pie.
[re=510520]gurukalehuru[/re]: Exact same thing happened to me. What saved the day, though, was that I did have access to the only comment at the time, which said the article sucked. Saved me some time. In any event, French girls are frequently already impregnated by the time they hit the scene.
[re=510500]V572625694[/re]: WSJ wanted me to PAY for that “article”? Garbage.
[re=510500]V572625694[/re]: Your changing of those key words makes the article (glances furtively at left palm) not understandable to those of us who don’t subscribe to WSJ, and therefore how could there possibly be any copyright issues? You were of no help whatsoever.
Thank you.
That’s our Wonkett, shilling for Rupert’s Gall Streak Journal again.
Coming soon: Wonkett visits the Times Select Cocktail Party, as Politico’s hot date.
If Republicans are becoming popular again, there is only one smart move for the Democrats: Crumple like a wet paper bag. I’m sure Harry Reid is drafting the memo today.
[re=510496]vkladchik[/re]: Alls you gots to do is click on the linky here, find the headline, type it into Google, “Google in Search of a Marketing Strategy” and voila! you get the full WSJ story. Murdoch keeps threatening to close the gate, but he hasn’t done it yet. Of course he also keeps yelling theft! theft! but all it takes is a very simple piece of code to block it; any Web site can easily stop it. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I pay a penny to Murdoch.
You can also do this for the Nooningtonshire’s Friday stories. In any search engine, just enter, “Peggy Noonan Wall Street Journal,” and the latest article usually pops up on top.
This should work for all blocked WSJ articles, and probably for other partially walled-off sites, although not sure about those.
[re=510534]tootsieroll[/re]: “Someone needs to keep telling Hopey that nice guys finish last.”
Werd.
It’s not as if Obama needs to pull one of these (although, that would be awesome to see him do that on the Senate floor), but just figuratively punch a lying hypocritical bitch in the chest every once and a while.
I thought the Budweiser “Human Bridge” commercial was worth a laugh, and my kids loved it because I’m always making them make a human pyramid with their cousins (there are 15 in all) when it’s picture time at the big summer lakeside get-togethers.
We are just about the epitome of whitebread Americans, we are.
Let’s see, huge-ass blizzards cripple the mid-Atlantic region. An earthquake hits Chicago.
How long before Pat Robertson says this is God’s way of congratulating the heathens from that cradle of sin New Orleans for winning the Super Bowl?
Sheesh. Everyone knows it takes at least eight Google searches to impregnate a French chick. I dare anyone to do it in only six!
[re=510521]Cape Clod[/re]: At least the Germans will be marching to Greece with one of their 1000-Jahr-Reich low-interest loans…
[re=510534]tootsieroll[/re]: I wonder about that myself. Since the ReThuglican’s evil stupidity has been recorded on the telly for 8 to 16 years, perhaps the Press officer should start every presser with a video of the Gooper-of-the-day telling some lie or logic-fail in the past, then show a tape of the diametrically opposite lie or logic-fail they’re mouthing today. Then he should start his remarks to the press by asking “any questions”?
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