As seen on Google Blogoscoped this morning: http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2006-12-14-n47.html Google is advertising not only its own Personalized Homepage Gadgets but also 3d party gadgets. One such gadget developer notes: Philipp goes on to say: Who's here on DP been making these gadgets with the aim of pulling in more traffic?
Thats wierdly... amazing. I personally thought Google to be a money hungry unit when it came to ads, but nice to see this for a change of course! IT
It's still out of money-hungriness. If they can get more people to use them as their default homepage they will capture a larger share of the search market pie and hence more money from advertisers.
i made www.online-stopwatch.com And someone on here told me to make it into a google gadget. Now half my hits come from www.google.com/ig I havent seen my site listed in adwords yet like, but its still really helped a simple site get some visitors. cheers.