A Nexus 7 Ad? On Google’s Home Page? Blasphemy!

Apparently Google jumped the shark this week, punched some nuns in the face, and clubbed some baby seals by introducing an obtrusive new element to their home page. No, not the new Google+ birthday reminders . That ad for the Google Nexus 7 tablet. If you’ve visited Google’s homepage in the past couple days, then no doubt you noticed an animated ad beneath Google’s search box. The ad is accompanied by the tagline: “The playground is open. The new $199 tablet from Google.” At tends to happen on slow news weeks, this development sparked outrage among a tiny fraction of Google users and sparked the usual tired blog posts pointing out that this is just further proof of Google’s evil, monopolistic doings. How dare Google use its page like Amazon uses its homepage to advertise its Kindle Fire, or how Apple uses its homepage to sell the iPad. Did Mashable Just Jump the Shark? Sor...

Full article: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2201656/A-Nexus-7-Ad...

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