New Yahoo Ads Tout Safety, Ease of Use
Yahoos unveiling a new display and radio ad campaign today. The campaign, which is targeted to fight Google, touts Yahoos safe results and easy-to-use interface. One banner ad adjures us: Dont get lost in all the links: A radio ad advertises the SafeSearch feature, which uses …
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…McAfee to indicate which sites in a SERP might contain potentially dangerous downloads:
The SafeSearch feature is nice, but again, if you have that info, why include dangerous sites in the results at all? And perhaps Yahoo is easier to use for some users. Which of the following two looks easier to use to you:
Or
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While the ads are cute and may even be accurate, I dont know that these will be enough to convert users. Unless Yahoo has something truly substantial to backup its claim that itll help you not get lost in all the links, I dont think the difference will be big enough to make people change their default behavior.
Google, meanwhile, is shopping around for ad agencies.
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Quote: Universal search has arrived and is here to stay ? This will change how people create content for the web.