From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Feb 25 22:49:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA20824 for chat-outgoing; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:49:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from lightside.com (hamby1.lightside.net [207.67.176.17]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id WAA20817 for ; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:49:02 -0800 (PST) Received: by lightside.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id WAA06946; Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:49:16 -0800 Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 22:49:16 -0800 From: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Message-Id: <199702260649.WAA06946@lightside.com> To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, marcs@znep.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD advert Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-MD5: sU2VxoP/yNDfNvkzibCeGQ== Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Marc Slemko writes: > On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Michael Smith wrote: > > > Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > > I was just surprised to see a FreeBSD advert on Yahoo. That was a > > > > pretty cool idea of someone (Jordan?). I hope we can look forward to > > > > seeing more of this kind of exposure. > > > > I haven't seen that yet; where do I look? 8) > > To follow up to what I said before, even better... the FreeBSD ad popped > up when I did a search on Linux. That's not a coincidence! Yahoo's search engine appears to pop up ads semi-intelligently. If you search for Linux or FreeBSD, you'll get .. a FreeBSD ad! If you search for sex, you get "Create Your Own Custom Hardcore Porn Channel" or "The Net's Only XXX Search Engine" (I'm not kidding! :). Look up "religion", and you get "Bible News", which you'll need after visiting either of the previous sites, I'm sure. ;) Look up "Java", you get a site offering Java training. And so forth... Talk about targeting your audience! Well, I must admit that's a pretty clever idea, and I'm surprised that you didn't figure out it was more than just coincidence... -- Jake