Surprise: Google’s Home Page Promoting Nexus One

If you visit Google.com today, you will see that they are showing a promotion for the Nexus One. The promotion is found under the search box and reads, “Experience Nexus One, the new Android phone from Google.” As we saw in Danny’s live blogging of the event, yesterday – Google said they would use Google.com […]

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Nexus One on Google.com

If you visit Google.com today, you will see that they are showing a promotion for the Nexus One. The promotion is found under the search box and reads, “Experience Nexus One, the new Android phone from Google.”

As we saw in Danny’s live blogging of the event, yesterday – Google said they would use Google.com to push this device. They did so for the Verizon/Motorola Droid, so of course they will do it for their own device.

The link takes you to google.com/phone, as you would expect.

Google’s also done this before in the past for the Droid, G1, to support World AIDS Day and Chrome.

Postscript from Greg Sterling: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster calculated the value of the Nexus One placement on Google’s homepage to be worth between $4 and $5 million (at a $15 or $20 CPM) if it were an ad that had to be bought.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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