Earlier today, an advertisement for Firefox appeared on Google's homepage. While that isn't really too remarkable, the ad featured an "optimized for Google" tagline, which is interesting. To complicate matters, an ad for an "optimized for Google" version of IE7 has appeared among certain Google search results, as well.
Google Operating System blog. "This time Google is more pushy," wrote Ionut Alex. Chitu - the banner ad appeared to users who were browsing with IE. "Google wants to convert Internet Explorer users to Firefox, but also targets Firefox users that don't have Firefox 2.0." That reasoning works in light of Google's traditional inclination towards Firefox, but the IE7 promotion confuses matters. UPDATE: Well, it seems as if Google might have been copycatting Yahoo in more than one way. A reader contacted Murdok to say, "So you know, Yahoo! designed its original IE7 landing page, it's not based on a template from Microsoft. If you look closely at the Google landing page, you'll notice that it includes the same graphic of the Yahoo! toolbar, with the red Y! blurred out." The reader was also kind enough to link to a post by
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