It’s starting to happen…The Search Engines are sending gifts to advertisers:-) WooHoo!
1. Google sent me an Ipod Shuffle.
2. Yahoo sent me a fancy corkscrew kit from Leeds.
3. MSN sent me a bottle of wine from wine.com.
I wonder if any of the other Search Engines I use are sending me gifts?
Last year, Google sent a Google Blanket. That was a very practical gift that has seen a lot of use. This year’s Google gift seems just as clever, in that it will most likely get a lot of use, and keeps the Google brand in front of me. Unlike a bottle of wine, or a unbranded corkscrew. I’m certainly not unappreciative. I’m just thinking of the long-lasting effect of the Google gift vs. the other gifts.
Great stuff on Google for this year 2006! No doubt!
What a lucky guy!
Out of curiosity, how much do you think you have to spend to get gifts like that? This year, I spent over $35K on Adwords (not for my personal site, but for my business sites) and haven’t received any gifts.
Haha, that’s awesome man! Google sure does know where it’s at…
Googel sent me a digital photo frame this year… Pissed I didn’t get the ipod.
Ask.com sent me a pair of Tiffany’s mugs..
When I got that cool blue box that says Tiffany & Company… Boy was I excited… Then I open it and there are some lame beer mugs that aren’t even engraved…
Very lame!!! Someones wife must work at Tiffany’s and got a huge commission checks.
ipod shuffle; those cheap bastards at Google
That’s a much better gift than this year’s digital picture frame from AdSense…
I agree that this is a much better gift than the AdSense gift they sent out, however it makes sense they are going to give the big AdWords publishers a better gift. Ultimately it’s the AdWords publishers that drive everything, yes?
Ads aren’t worth anything unless you have somewhere to publish them.
And Google does quite nicely from AdSense.
But yeah, a Shuffle is way better than the digital picture frame.
We’ve gotten some cool stuff in passed years, gadgets, games always very inventive gifts. We spent approx $2mil this year with Adwords – we got an email that had a photo of our Google team in an ornament!
TOTALLY random question, but do you still have this Shuffle? If so, take a look at the back of it, right above the Apple logo. Google had a special message printed on the back of these gifts…but their name was misspelled. It reads: “ooGleg thanks you!” Can you confirm this?