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Re:Google wouldn't have run their ad if it wasn't for statis... by skennedy on Sunday February 07, 2010 @11:58PM (#1109016)
The commercial is about Google positioning itself against a growing Bing brand. Bing commercials often make fun of the numerous and nonsensical results from other search engines (i.e., Google). Notice the commercial had perfect answers at the top of each result set. As Bing hits the media hard, I expect to see more commercials from Google.

Overall, a good execution by Google on its first commercial. Putting it on the Super Bowl, all I can think is, "Go big or go home."

Re:Google wouldn't have run their ad if it wasn't for statis... by invisible on Monday February 08, 2010 @12:49AM (#1109116)
This explains why the flight status # changed from previous runnings of this ad (which had unrelated results in the top three). I was curious why they'd go so far out of the way, but this makes sense. [See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1109079]