• By Owen Thomas
    Dec 14, 2008 7:00 PM 7,713
    more about

    #onlinevideo

    Yahoo Video: The $6 Billion Black Hole Implodes

    The Shot That Sparked the YouTube Riots

    The Flimsiness of YouTube Celebrity
    read more: #search, #onlinevideo, #google, #yahoo, #msn, #askcom, #microsoft, #pamelaanderson, #clips, #gawker, #valleywag

    Why Pamela Anderson can't beat Google

    Remember AltaVista? The search engine, long swallowed up by Yahoo, once hired professional trashy babe Pamela Anderson to win our affections. What that terrible TV ad tells us: TV ads don't build Web brands.

    Need more examples? Here are commercials from MSN, Yahoo, and Ask.com. (I found them using Google and YouTube, a Google-owned video-hosting site.) Do any of them articulate a reason to switch search engines?


    Contact information for this author is not available.