Comments on: Google’s Home Page Promotes Motorola / Verizon Droid Phone http://searchengineland.com/googles-home-page-promotes-motorola-droid-29361 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:39:57 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: George Michie http://searchengineland.com/googles-home-page-promotes-motorola-droid-29361/comment-page-1#comment-7633 George Michie Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:08:41 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/?p=29361#comment-7633 Clearly they're promoting the product. Why wouldn't they? The only odd piece of the equation is that they deny the fact. This may be a case of "never say never." Google has benefited from a super clean user interface for years. They probably won't stray too far from that model. At the same time, they have a huge number of eyeballs on that page which puts them in an enviable position. If occasionally they decide to push a product or service, who can really fault them for anything other than making promises that they probably shouldn't have made? Clearly they’re promoting the product. Why wouldn’t they? The only odd piece of the equation is that they deny the fact.

This may be a case of “never say never.”

Google has benefited from a super clean user interface for years. They probably won’t stray too far from that model. At the same time, they have a huge number of eyeballs on that page which puts them in an enviable position. If occasionally they decide to push a product or service, who can really fault them for anything other than making promises that they probably shouldn’t have made?

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