Comments on: Creative advertisement on Google main page?

By: DK » iPod or Zen - Tough choice

DK » iPod or Zen - Tough choice — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:00:30 +0000

[...] last time when I blog about Creative pushing advertisement at the bottom of your web browser when you are on Qmax Wireless@sg? Someone suggested that I take a snapshot of that advertisement on [...]

By: linuxNUS » Blog Archive » “Web tripwires” reveal 1.3% of web pages altered in transit

Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:58:25 +0000

[...] thereby reducing bandwidth used and decreasing wait times. Alternatively, some service providers take the opportunity to serve ads [...]

By: DK

DK — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:06:00 +0000

Spyer: That is exactly what I’m thinking too.

By: spyer

spyer — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:16:00 +0000

I have used all the wireless@sg service providers, only QMax ISP has the Creative advertisement. For anything free, advertisements are somehow a accepted feature but it must not be disruptive to your browsing experience.

From what I gather, after you have logged in to QMax, it goes into a frame-based setup. If you view the source codes from the two areas, you will see that they are totally different.

Even Google adds a small line in all their advertisements, saying "Ads by Google". I am wondering if their advertisement placement has broken any code of practices on this.

By: DK

DK — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:53:00 +0000

Rob: Yeap, it is very misleading. I think the least they could do is to state that the ads is from Wireless@sg and not the website itself.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:18:00 +0000

Inserting adverts into every page is fine IMO since it is free wireless. but the screenshot you posted is very misleading to anyone who surfs onto google site as there is no indication that the advert comes from the wireless network you are on. You may want to send the screenshot to google to see if they have any problems with that.

Rob

By: DK

DK — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:16:00 +0000

mr dew: Oh ya. I should have captured a screenshot of the ads being display on Apple store. That would be more funny.

Spyer: I didn’t know that the ads has higher priority loading. All I know is it’s an eye sore.

bypasser: Actually, only Qmax has ads on the browser. Singnet and iCell doesn’t. (Or maybe not yet) Yes, it is indeed something new to us.

By: bypasser

bypasser — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:02:00 +0000

The advertisements appear in most wireless@sg that I have encountered before. I think it is okay since it is free wifi.

Quite common in overseas with advertisements at the browser. Maybe it is new to us only.

By: spyer

spyer — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 01:29:00 +0000

Yes, I would agree with you that the agreement is basically between the user of the service and the service provider.

I feel that the way Creative ad was coded greatly impaired the content browsing experience. Sometimes, the Creative ad takes a higher priority in loading their content over the actual content. I find it intrusive. There was one time it was so bad that I stopped using it and walked away.

This, in my opinion, is not acceptable and not fair to the website owners.

By: Mr. Dew

Mr. Dew — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:38:00 +0000

I don’t think it’s fair to the website owner, it somehow suggests endorsement to Creative products which might not be the intent of the website. Imagine going to Apple.com looking through iPods and you have this little Creative advertisement at the bottom.

It’s good to that you brought this up, I hope IDA takes notice of this…