Comments on: Google Not So Subtle When Advertising Firefox Now

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:37:03 +0000

Yes, we were blocked around two-months ago for being a â€œmiddle-man.â€ It was a little disappointing but there are still a lot of people that read the site so we werenâ€™t too bothered by it.

What the heck, you mean to tell me GEICO owns DIGG?

By: Someone

Someone — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:51:01 +0000

Yeah I don’t see the ad anywhere on Google’s site when using IE.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 16:40:08 +0000

Clazh wrote:

you been blocked on DIGG ???? too bad

Yes, we were blocked around two-months ago for being a "middle-man." It was a little disappointing but there are still a lot of people that read the site so we weren't too bothered by it. For all of those people who thinks this might be bogus I found it interesting that the original source reporting this is a ZDNet blog but they don't say how they came across it.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 14:14:03 +0000

I do not have this bar. I checked both personalized homepage and regular hompage. Nothing.

By: pdedecker

pdedecker — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 13:24:01 +0000

Update: I don’t see the Firefox bar on Google either (I live in Belgium).

By: pdedecker

pdedecker — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 12:56:07 +0000

Yahoo! displays exactly the same message on their home page, but it promotes IE7 instead of Firefox:

Yahoo! recommends upgrading to the NEW, safer Internet Explorer 7

Safer? I doubt it.

By: Clazh

Clazh — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 07:26:26 +0000

you been blocked on DIGG ???? too bad

By: CoryC

CoryC — Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:28:51 +0000

I think it’s bogus. It just happens that the Yahoo home page has an ad for IE 7 and it’s says Yahoo is “Optimized for IE 7″. It’s too similar in my opinion.