Over the past few weeks, I have been noticing ads of a person called Saurabh Pandey on various Google properties including GMail, Google Web Search and even on this blog.What surprises me here is that Saurabh is using Adsense heavily to advertise his Orkut profile page and a Blogspot blog [Sycamore World] that has just two posts which were published over an year ago.
Just out of sheer curiosity, I visited his Orkut page and it turned out that Saurabh is actually working for Google India, in the Sales function.
Now that makes it all the more interesting. Looking at the frequency at which his ads appear on various websites through Adsense, I am sure that Saurabh is not just an employee of Google but an important Adwords client as well.
Reader Comments
Amit,
Sorry to say that typo in
What surprises me here is that Saurabh is using "Adsense" he is using adwords
hehe :)
Written on 12/12/06 1:45 AM
Hi Amit,
Don't we see a marketing strategy here. This is to encourage users - bloggers - to advertise!
Since they even dish out coupons for adwords, msn ad center - bloggers are definitely a segment (no matter what the size maybe)
Cheers!
Alpesh
Written on 12/12/06 6:30 AM
I understand Google gives allowance to its employees which they can spend on various Google products including AdWords.
And I guess, Saurabh is using that allowance for his advantage :-)
Written on 12/12/06 10:17 AM
the allowance part is the most sensible of all theories.
Written on 12/12/06 11:39 AM
one nice interesting story
Written on 12/12/06 10:37 PM
I even heard that Google gives few Adwords credit to Google Adwords employees to test out!!! Probably Saurabh is testing out the Google Adwords :)
Written on 13/12/06 6:20 AM