I got an unusual version of my Google results listing when I did a search for a piece of camera equipment today.
Haven’t seen this elsewhere, suspect it is an experiment.
anyone else getting this?
This great video arrived in my mail today:
I’m in Newbury, England at the moment for work. I thought it would be a good opportunity to buy a decent zoom lens for my SLR, so I’ve been using Google to do some research on a couple of lenses for my Canon camera.
There’s a great lens that has just been released by Tamron – the SP 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC USD but it’s pretty hard to find at the moment so I’ve been hunting around via Google.
Imagine my surprise when I started spotting Jessops ads for the EXACT lens I’ve been looking for embedded in the News24 website.
I’ve since seen these ads all over the place as I browse the web, and they are very cleverly targetted to the exact items that I’ve browsed via Google or on the Jessops website.
This is very clever stuff… everywhere I go I’m confronted by images and prices for the exact thing I want to buy right now, and it’s hard to get away from the urge to buy!
Anyone else seen good examples of this happening?
So it looks like I wasn’t the only idiot who couldn’t work out just what Wave was supposed to be used for (see my post here – http://tim-gregory.com/2009/11/google-wave-makes-me-feel-stupid/).
Google is gonna shut it down…
I’ve created my first Facebook group, dedicated to drumming up some support for stopping the Yellow Pages and Phonebook spam we’re subjected to every year.
I’m hoping we can get the group up to a decent number and then set a date for returning our unwanted phonebooks.
Maybe it can become an annual event until the bastards decide to ask us if we want the books first before dumping them on our doorsteps.
So go here, join the group, post it to all your friends, and let’s hatch a plan to deliver on Operation: Yellow Snow – the mass return of unwanted Yellow Pages and Phonebooks to the Trudon offices.
UPDATED:
Can you believe that the line “Please consider the environment before printing this email” was added to the mail from a Trudon employee? Should perhaps read “Please consider the environment before printing 6 million phonebooks”