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#31
post #10

Some examples of these seem to be: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=hillary+issues https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bernie+issues I'm referring to the postings with the photo and the checkmark and the "On Google" text, not the ones pulled from news sources, like the ones for "trump issues"

Whoa, I've never seen this privacy reminder box before! Must be an EU-specific thing to try and dissuade them from getting skinned alive by EU privacy laws.

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#32
Could be an interesting way for candidates to get in front of third-party spin. When you Google "Bernie Sanders" you could be greeted with rich content from the Sanders campaign explaining his positions, rather than links to hit pieces and other info-detritus.

Of course, either way you're getting somebody's propaganda.

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#33
post #11

It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.

This doesn't seem like such a bad idea. I don't care about most of the stuff on Twitter. But, if I'm searching for something and a Tweet-like "post" exists that is relevant to what I'm searching for, I might like that.

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#34
post #24

Just like Google. Give people no reason to use something, just put it out there, and hey "We're Google!" and they will come. Except no, they don't.

Yeah seriously, they keep putting out these products that no one ever wants to use. Like that Google Maps thing or that Chrome browser or whatever. Geez.

Re: Google Posts

#35
post #24

Just like Google. Give people no reason to use something, just put it out there, and hey "We're Google!" and they will come. Except no, they don't.

It's worked multiple times for them in the past, most notably with search.

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#36
post #24

Just like Google. Give people no reason to use something, just put it out there, and hey "We're Google!" and they will come. Except no, they don't.

It's worked multiple times for them in the past, most notably with search.

Yeah Yahoo clearly saturated the market..

Re: Google Posts

#37
post #11

It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.

To me this seems like the polar opposite of social. There's no conversation, there's no interaction, and there's no involvement for "regular people".

This is just a new ad unit.

Re: Google Posts

#38
post #11

It could be that this is massive, and has little or nothing to do with the US presidential election. They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.

>They're going to try to force their way into social by grafting social media posts onto the one thing basically everyone uses - the search page.

Wasn't that the strategy with Google Plus when it came out?

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#40
This is the Google version of Twitter's little 'verified' checkmarks, just for whole web pages instead of tweets. The presidential election is actually a great place to roll out that kind of service given him much domain squatting goes on (e.g. http://www.tedcruz.com), but it's clearly of general applicability. If it takes off, it makes Google the place to go to for establishing a page as the 'official' version.
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