People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Google's thing is not advertising because it's not a romanticizing operation. It doesn't involve expression. It's a link. What they're doing is selling access.
The interesting thing about advertising is that the things that annoy us sometimes about it are really human. It's us looking at ourselves - and like all human endeavors it's imperfect.
All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.
Advertising is the life of trade.
Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.
Google is a consumer brand and people need to be comfortable. If we were just an advertising brand we wouldn't have the same concerns. We've always tried to promote transparency and choice among our users.
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
Advertising is the edge of what people know how to do and of human experience and it explains the latest ways progress has changed us to ourselves.
It's almost as if creativity is dead. The visual power of advertising was everywhere - now it's basically gone.
There is no rivalry between Google and traditional advertising.
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