Yovav (Jay) Meydad's Personal Blog

In the last year I have seen several house ads running on the AdSense network, promoting different Google services such as Chrome, Picasa and Google Analytics. But today while reading TechCrunch, I saw for the first time an ad targeted to acquire new advertisers.

I wonder if that is a response to the fact Microsoft AdCenter came out of beta recently or to the Bing launch, a search engine that I highly recommend using.

BTW, does anyone know if (and how much) Google pays publishers when visitors clicks on these house ads and take action (download picasa or chrome, sign up for analytics or as advertisers)?

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Jake Levine who used to work at my team before he left for MySpace to become their search product manager sent me this note & screenshot of Chromoe’s death page. I thought it was funny and worth a share:

Chrome failed and here’s what it shows (homage to the best search ever!):