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Google Opens U.K. Cybercafe and Testing Lab

Posted by Zonk on from the ticket-to-london-please dept.

sebFlyte writes "Google has launched a new venture in England to go with its London offices. They've set up a free Web cafe style affair at London's Heathrow airport to help travelers claw back some of the many hours they spend aimlessly wandering round airport lounges. They're not doing it entirely selflessly though: they admit the main reason they're doing it is to get as wide and as large a cross section of people through the centre as they can so that they can then watch them interact with Google's Web applications. ZDNet has photos, too."

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  1. free marketing? by Deitheres · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not complaining about slashdot, per se, but did anyone else notice the marketing in those pics?

    Must be nice to be a company as big as google, you don't even have to pay to advertise any more. Just do something cool and people eat it up.

    9 hours a year... Yeesh.

    Makes me glad I don't fly.

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    Just like driving a car:
    (D) to go forward
    (R) to go backward

  2. Google Employees by Jazzer_Techie · · Score: 5, Interesting

    From TFA, 3rd Picture Caption
    The 10 Samsung laptops in the temporary installation will be manned from 0700 to 1900 by Google employees from across the organisation, with some flown in especially to help out.
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    It would appear that Google has been flying in their more attractive employees. (Or maybe if I worked for Google I'd look like that too.)

  3. Re:Hmm... Noticed something... by Air-conditioned+cowh · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If encouraging people to use non MS operating systems was a priority for them then their desktop apps would at least be cross-platform.

    It clearly isn't for them because they aren't.