Music Promo Blog: I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy... of Google

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I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy... of Google

Man, the folks at Google just totally kick ass! I love seeing brilliant marketing and thusfar, Google is the sh*t!

Yesterday, I heard that they are preparing to start their own free mail server like Yahoo and Hotmail. The big difference is the Google genius. No pop-ads. No banner ads. Plus, 1000 MB of FREE storage!

And the genius of it?

Ye know how at the bottom of Yahoo and Hotmail emails you'll see a wee message that says something like "Hotmail http://www.hotmail.com/" or whatever. Well, they'll do the same, only they'll add content relevant text ads which I assume will be a part of the their Google AdWords program.

Imagine. You're chatting with a friend about Celtic music and you see the following ad:

Download free Celtic mp3s
Brobdingnagian Bards are The Original Celtic Renaissance music group with over five million MP3s served. www.thebards.net

Or something like that. You don't even have to add it in. They take care of it all for ye.

I haven't signed us up for AdWords yet, but I'm gonna. That and I gotta get some Google stock when it goes public. What brilliant biz people!

--posted by Marc Gunn at Friday, April 02, 2004
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