Google Says “Get Online, America”
Friday, June 17th, 2011
Google registers 100+ domain names related to getting more people online.
UPDATE: Here’s what Google is up to.
It looks like Google is working on a new campaign to help get more Americans online.
Over the past week the company has registered over 100 domain names including various state names and variations of “Get Online”.
The domains follow these patterns:
AlaskaGetOnline.com
GetAlaskaOnline.com
GetOnlineAlaska.com
The domains seem to cover all 50 states.
This may also be part of the company’s lobbying and PR efforts to help people get fast broadband connections. Although it’s not clear if Google is the registrant, a company that registers domains for Google also registered HowFastIsMyBrowser.com at the same time.
One of Google’s registrations might irk a rather large ISP: GetAmericaOnline.com
Further Reading:
- Bank of America Wants You to Know Its Executives Don’t Suck
- Did Google Buy Wallet.com?
- Looks Like Google Will Connect Kids to Santa This Holiday Season
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Perhaps google has reached the critical mass point where the most effective thing that will really bring in more money is the birth rate and more people getting online.
AMERICA ONLINE TM INFRINGEMENT WATCH OUT
Could be a promotion for Google Chrome. The HowFastIsMyBrowser.com name got me to think that.
Kinda ironic a company that pushes brands and penalizes generics would choose those domains to market with
Google has been offering free websites, including a domain, to Canadian businesses, since March. A quick search shows they’re doing it in Australia now as well. See: http://www.gybo.ca/
Google has been doing this with ccTLD dominant countries (Ireland, UK, Australia). Basically Google has to rely on inefficient blind crawling (following links from other websites) to find new ccTLD websites. Most ccTLDs do not provide zonefile access in the same way that the gTLDs allow access.
The other aspect is that many new websites do not have inbound links and are invisible to search engines. This scheme when it was rolled out in Ireland provided Google with new sites for its index and potentially new signups for Adwords.
We are Google’s partner in Ireland for the scheme that John mentioned.
Every signup has access to tools to build a simple site, a free domain (not just ccTLD), free adwords credit and there is also training being provided by the local enterprise boards.
Getting more businesses online obviously benefits Google, but it benefits everyone else as well.
It’ll be interesting to see if they launch something similar in the US market and maybe due to the sheer size of the US they may have chosen to do it on a state by state basis instead of nationally..
Hi,
Texas was first, and now Vermont…
http://www.wcax.com/story/15253792/how-google-is-helping-vt-businesses-go-global?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6144445
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