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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by sjs382 on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @04:45PM (#694642)
By driving more eyeballs to the web and away from desktop apps.
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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by gaius on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @04:50PM (#694654)
Really? So you'll be working away, on your document or your spreadsheet, or you'll be playing a game, and some ad will pop up, and off you go, zero attention span? Why would anyone want that?

$50 on your Netbook isn't much if it means you hand your thesis in on time...

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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by sjs382 on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @05:15PM (#694718)
No, not really. I doubt there will be ads in Docs & Spreadsheets. But there ARE and WILL BE ads in Gmail* and Google search results. The main idea is to keep you in Google's ecosystem and to make advertising on the web more valuable.

Selling advertisings isn't about creating new places to put ads--it's about making advertising space more valuable. And that isn't as straightforward as you seem to think. :)

* And adsense ads in apps that others create.

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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by netsp on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @08:47PM (#694976)
It still sounds pretty far removed.

Release an OS that will drive traffic to your spreadsheet app that will drive traffic to your search engine where you can sell ads.

*Gmail still doesn't really makes much money.

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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by andreyf on Thursday July 09, 2009 @04:16AM (#695466)
Release an OS that will drive traffic to your [...] search engine where you can sell ads.

Not far removed at all. Google makes billions by selling ads. Even if they budget a couple of million $/year for this project (might be less, depending on how you structure the proejct), they'll be making crazy returns if this increases their ad revenue just by 0.001. Not to mention all the FUD it'll cause inside MS :)

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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by netsp on Friday July 10, 2009 @10:13AM (#697676)
Release an OS that will send more people to the internet, where your (profitable) search engine is.
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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by sjs382 on Thursday July 09, 2009 @03:14AM (#695399)
Contextual advertising in an email client is VERY valuable. :)
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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by netsp on Thursday July 09, 2009 @11:04AM (#696006)
I disagree
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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by enomar on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @05:17PM (#694721)
You should probably switch browsers if you're still getting pop-ups ;)
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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by Elepsis on Thursday July 09, 2009 @01:45AM (#695298)
At this point you have to make an effort to download a browser that doesn't block popups by default. Even IE has been doing it since version 7.
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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by jacquesm on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @07:35PM (#694908)
lately youtube has been inserting overlays on top of playing videos, a highly annoying feature. If they ever do that to google docs there will be a mass exodus.
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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by omnipresent1 on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @04:57PM (#694672)
It'll be worse than office assistant paper clip.
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Re:Fake Steve Jobs on Chrome OS by weavejester on Wednesday July 08, 2009 @09:08PM (#694998)
Google isn't solely about advertising. In Google's other Linux-based OS, they make money off their app store.
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