Saw this shop in the new Roppongi Hills complex in Tokyo:
I’ve pretty much ceded all of my personal “search” business to Google. And I’m happy with that decision. I trust the Google brand as my number one virtual guide to…well, anything I need to find. But seeing their logo on a real world storefront kind of gives me the heebie jeebies.
Google soda?!
The iGoogle Art Cafe is a limited engagement gig. But moves like this by the Googleplex beyond the information market seem ill-considered to me. Even Google needs to know its limits.
Comments? How do you feel about the Google brand?
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JB // April 18, 2008 at 9:31 am |
I, too, have ceded not only all my search, but also all my maps-and-directions business to Google. But I’m still not sure I’d trust them with ALL my data storage…though I don’t trust anyone else with that either! It will be interesting to watch going forward whether people keep posting their videos, photos, and personal data in a wide range of sites or if they consolidate to a very few world-dominating mega-sites. No matter how much we think Google (and others) are “doing good” and acting “ethically,” they are all staffed by humans, and that eventually spells a problem!
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