Most were aimed at on-line consumers, people who buy stuff over the Internet. And most of the companies that ran the commercials are out of business. These ads rarely try to sell anything. They just want you to look at their web site. The more of us that do, the more they charge for advertising, which is exactly the 50 year-old network television model.
More viewers mean higher ratings and higher ratings translate to higher advertising rates.
The new owners make the same claim so I obviously had to give them a try. They also gave me a good reason to revisit the topic of search engines. There is no way, under current technology, to physically search the Internet. The companies collect information, store it in their computers and then retrieve it when you or I ask them to find something. The quality of that database depends upon its size, how well it is organized and how frequently it is updated.