This is actually originally from a comment that I wrote on MetaFilter in response to some people talking about the “new” Google personalized homepage. It’s logo says “iGoogle” which is very reminiscent of a popular portable music player released by Apple. Someone suggested that maybe Google and Apple were merging. To which, I replied:
I could only imagine the ads that came out of a Google/Apple merger.
‘Hi, I’m the Google Algorithm”
“And I’m the Yahoo! Algorithm”“Hey, what you got there, Yahoo?”
“Oh, this? It’s a new server. Yeah, finally had to upgrade.”
“Really? Congratulations.”
“Yeah, we hit our 10,000th user.”
“Wow, for the day?”
“No, just overall.”
“Oh. Well, good luck with that.”
“Thanks.”
I feel cheap reposting material, but I thought it was pretty good.
May 22nd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
[…] Rather than simple self promotion, it seems like it’s becoming more commonplace to just come out and say not only “we’re better” but “they’re inferior.” Granted, it’s kind of implied in saying you’re better than someone or something by showing you’re own superiority, but for that same reason it seems like you simply don’t need to see it. It feels really demeaning to me as a viewer and almost like the marketing guys at Alltel just ran out of ideas. What do you do when you run out of ideas? Copy Mac’s marketing approach. […]