I was watching Fastlane on Fox and heard an interesting line in an aol commercial. The aol person said something to the extent of "you can track health with aol and WebMD", and then a supposed aol user stated:
"I totally trust aol with my familys health".....
does that worry anyone else but me lol?
AOL? Americe Online? How'd you mean track health?Originally posted by RoD
I was watching Fastlane on Fox and heard an interesting line in an aol commercial. The aol person said something to the extent of "you can track health with aol and WebMD", and then a supposed aol user stated:
"I totally trust aol with my familys health".....
does that worry anyone else but me lol?
RoD, u'r not alone, i'm truly worried
I know I won't sleep tonight.
Joe
AOL, yes america online, was attempting to give the average person the impression that WebMD is only available on aol, without saying it. To backup the "follow health issues and find health related answers on AOL with WebMD" claim, they had a supposed user say that. The average joe smoe is led to beleive that WebMD is aol integrated and that they should get aol.
The do that with a lot of sites, monster.ca for exampleOriginally posted by RoD
... WebMD is only available on aol, without saying it. To backup the "follow health issues and find health related answers on AOL with WebMD" claim, they had a supposed user say that. The average joe smoe is led to beleive that WebMD is aol integrated and that they should get aol.
i never noticed till today, that really scared me
I have seen that commercial, it scared me...
but its advertising...
it kind of reminds my of a dilbert comic.
doctor>i wrote you a drug prescription in handwriting that no human can read
dilbert>what if he gives me the wrong medicine and i die
doctor>thats what i call marketing
bassicly it seems like business ethics to do things to cause people extra money (aol is very expensive for how crappy it is)
>>how crappy it is
well how can they come out and say THIS version is better and this is the 8th time ??? it's like their showing us how crappy it is...well, in version 7 we didnt do good so this is version 8and on and on and on...
guns dont kill people, abortion clinics kill people.
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Wasn't AOL in some serious financial trouble? At least that's
what i remember.
>>Wasn't AOL in some serious financial trouble? At least that's
what i remember.<<
Well AOL Time Warner just reported the biggest financial loss of any American company ever, so yeah. And most of it was from AOL's side of the business. Time Warner haven't done too badly.
Alot of it has to do with the juno commercials. Showing all the same things as aol, for 9.95 a month instead of 20.00 , plus even more options than aol has.
I use juno, and so does a large percentage of the poeple who used to use aol lol.
