Sunday, January 3, 2010

Google Chrome Billboard

At the railway station today I saw a Google Chrome browser advert. An advert for a browser, I think the first one I have ever seen in such mainstream advertising.

Part of this is the IE stranglehold, and also the death of any competition with any budget. Firefox has become popular as an alternative but that was more word of mouth.

It did remind me of the time IBM tried to advertise an OS/2 warp - whatever that was, on the side of buses, god knows what people were thinking when they read that.

Still I am not sure of the effect of such general advertising, maybe it is just cheap at the moment during the recession.

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