[News] Google AdWords campaign targeting http://www.squeak.org

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Nov 24 09:52:31 UTC 2006


Actually, It looks to me like they want Java programmers - although  
they seem to recognize that Smalltalkers grok OO better than most.

- Bert -


On Nov 24, 2006, at 10:18 , Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> Google's hiring Smalltalk programmers and they run ads on my  
> keywords 8-) Try it yourself:
>
> - http://www.google.com/search? 
> ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&q=smalltalk&gl=US
>
> After half a dozen or so of manual refreshs, you will see their  
> Smalltalk ad:
>
>  Smalltalk at Google?
>  Dig SmallTalk & object oriented
>  design? Get a Java XP job at Google
>  www.google.com/jobs/
>
> I run my squeak.org campaign now for 36 hours, during which their  
> CPC bid was raised from pennies to bucks, between a factor of 50  
> and 100. My pockets are not deep enough to compete against Google's  
> own ads, sorry ;-)
>
> Nevertheless, running this campaign was quite an experience :)
>
> /Klaus
>
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:09:14 +0100, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I've just started a $$ Google AdWords campaign and would like to  
>> receive
>> feedback when you see www.squeak.org appearing in a Goole ad  
>> (wording, ad
>> position, whatever your impression, please let me know).
>>
>> I would appreciate if you DO*NOT*CLICK*THE*AD, because it costs me  
>> $$ per
>> click, but if you cannot resist feel free to do so ;-)
>>
>> /Klaus
>>
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