Meme,
Just read your post about the upcoming Media Campaign. (Grandpadude, where is that countdown BTW?)
As busy as I am of late, I hope that everyone posts as they see and/or hear these ads.
GO.COM as a Search Engine????
Hmmm...what a novel idea. DUH!
GO.COM started out as one. When did they EVER think that it wasn't? So sad this thought is when we think back to all we used to post about how Disney was going to make INFOSEEK GREAT (before the Disney Buyout), remember?
Oddly, we all bought into this concept of GO.COM as a PORTAL. We were of the same mindset. We WANTED the INFOSEEK NAME to have more prominence, and I am noticing now on the new GO.COM Pages the words "Powered by Infoseek", and the old, original 'i' LOGO of Infoseek proudly displayed.
And it is funny to think back about how much we discussed the GO TRAFFIC SIGNAL! The article is correct.....seems like a hundred years aGO now!
GO.COM is trying to become what GO.COM always was.
A search engine! This is clearly something that Steve Kirsch should be proud of and I am emailing this post to him as a tribute to his original vision. I can't help but think back to all the wondering we did regarding why Infoseek and Disney didn't seem to get along, and I have to believe that all along Steve Kirsch was trying to create the very website that GO.COM has become today.
Therefore it is my belief that as we said all along, the problem seemed to lie with ole Harry Motro. Harry wanted some kind of SEEK/DIS Marriage that obviously couldn't work. Disney wanted a vehicle to link people to their business assets. Steve Kirsch had the vehicle to achieve both. I believe that if Harry Motro hadn't confused the simple issue so much we would have seen this Marketing Campaign from DAY ONE.
Oh well, here is to the next "one hundred years!" on the Internet!
Steve Kirsch, I'm keepin' an eye on your Propel.com "Amazon in a Box" Business
