When I watch this Chrome promotion video, the creativeness of Google Japan folks can be clearly seen there. But, it remind me back an incident when Google Japan been penalized by their own ‘godfather’, Google for buying paid link via pay-per-post.Google.co.jp end up at pagerank 5 instead of 9 before.
It happens at the time when Google raise its effort in busting paid link. Last year, they dropped bombs to numbers of establish blog and websites , for alleged selling links. Ironically, while they’re blaming webmasters for not complying with their search guidelines, their employees are not on the same page with the boss. Funny right?
That paid link campaign is an effort from marketing team, which usually play some role, together with creative team in producing advertisement. Well.. yeah, people did wrong sometime, so here is the video.
It is far from beautiful online games. But Monster Milk Truck is special because it is the first game created for Google Earth Plugin. Expect a ‘smooth drive’ on your way delivering milks. It can even going through any building ahead of you.
Bored with default location? Teleport yourself to any part of the world, but most location has the infrastructure such as building being flatten.
It is now also works on Google Chrome via Google Earth API. Happy driving..
First desktop, now Youtube goes offline. Youtube with number of Youtube channels unveiled program that allow users to download Youtube videos ‘legally’. It doesn’t come free though, where small fee required via Google Checkout.
A quick look on the mention partners no longer showing the purchase link (does it shows only to US visitors?) although you can see the screen shot here. Youtube, currently ranks 3rd on Alexa rank, is Google’s most prized asset and only ranks behind itself and Yahoo. Monetizing this traffic wasn’t easy , and this download program comes after Adsense for videos introduced last year.
Quick question popped out in my head.. Will this ‘pay-for-download’ works when Youtube videos can be downloaded using 3rd party tools (such as Real Player add-on plugin for Firefox) all this while? Perhaps not for fun, jokes or nonsense videos.
However, the are possibly market for peoples/organizations that looking to have the copyrighted videos legally. Apart from that, some of the initial channels joined this program comes from higher learning institution that provide lecturer and research videos.
The blog post announcing this plan received mixed response (more negative than the positive comments), although it is not fair to judge if this is not going to work based on that. But would you download something that you can get for free?
I feel ‘lucky’ today that I get this ‘lite’ version of local english newpaper ‘The Star’ while browsing the news. Although it is only a brief spell, at least it is not down intermittently as its other rival.
Why TheStar server can’t withstand the traffic? I guess it is none other than the Perak Turmoil..
