<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, pamela anderson]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, pamela anderson]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/pamelaanderson http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/pamelaanderson <![CDATA[Why Pamela Anderson can't beat Google]]> Remember AltaVista? The search engine, long swallowed up by Yahoo, once hired professional trashy babe Pamela Anderson to win our affections. What that terrible TV ad tells us: TV ads don't build Web brands.

Need more examples? Here are commercials from MSN, Yahoo, and Ask.com. (I found them using Google and YouTube, a Google-owned video-hosting site.) Do any of them articulate a reason to switch search engines?

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