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Google Airs Super Bowl Ad

theodp writes "CNET's hunch that Google might run a Super Bowl ad entitled 'Parisian Love' proved to be well-founded. The ad just ran (did you know that you can search the Internet using Google?), and Apple certainly doesn't have to worry about losing its claim to having produced the best Super Bowl ad ever. In fact, you might want to check out the spoof 'Parisian Love' apparently inspired — 'Is Tiger Feeling Lucky?' — if you want to see a better pitch for Google."

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  1. First Polanski by Ethanol-fueled · · Score: 4, Funny
    Here are the searches from the commercial, in order:
    • "study abroad paris france"
    • "cafes near the louve"
    • "translate tu es tres mignon"
    • "impress a french girl"
    • "chocolate shops paris"
    • "what are truffles"
    • "who is traffaut"
    • "long distance relationship advice"
    • "jobs in paris"
    • "AA120"
    • "churches in paris
    • "how to assemble a crib"

    Did anybody else find that kinda...creepy? Like some Roman Polanski just met a possibly underage girl* in a chat room and now he's going to stalk her* while fantasizing about moving near her*, gettin married*, and having a kid* all while he dosen't even know French*.

    * the "girl", "AA 120" airline, "jobs", "church", "crib", and "translate" searches; respectively.

    1. Re:First Polanski by sakdoctor · · Score: 5, Funny
      • Buy cafes near the louve on ebay
      • Buy impress a french girl on ebay
      • Buy long distance relationship on ebay
      • Buy churches in paris on ebay
    2. Re:First Polanski by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Funny

      I really do get a similar result for your 3rd example:

      Buy long-distance relationship at Amazon! Qualified orders over $25 ship free

    3. Re:First Polanski by russotto · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's just you. Any idiot could see the story: An American guy went to study abroad in Paris, went to a cafe, met a French girl who told him he was cute, bought her some chocolate, found out about her favorite films, and eventually moved to Paris to be the handyman to her and her husband.

    4. Re:First Polanski by Sebilrazen · · Score: 2, Funny

      Buy cafes near the louve on ebay

      Unlikely. It would spelled correctly.

      I love that a post complaining about spelling has such horrible grammar.

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    5. Re:First Polanski by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      He accidentally a word.

    6. Re:First Polanski by VShael · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's just you. Any idiot could see the story: An American guy went to study abroad in Paris, went to a cafe, met a French girl who told him he was cute, bought her some chocolate, found out about her favorite films, and eventually moved to Paris to be the handyman to her and her husband.

      Ah to be the handyman in a Parisian family... you have all the sex with the Mrs, but none of the responsibility of raising/paying for the children.

    7. Re:First Polanski by delinear · · Score: 2, Funny

      Here are the searches from the commercial, in order:

      • "study abroad paris france"
      • "cafes near the louve"
      • "translate tu es tres mignon"

      [SNIP]

      Ack, dude, spoiler warning, spoiler warning!

    8. Re:First Polanski by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Well... at least he didn't accidentally the whole thing...

    9. Re:First Polanski by 0100010001010011 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

    10. Re:First Polanski by slimjim8094 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow. Sucks to be you.

      I'm dead serious.

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    11. Re:First Polanski by b4dc0d3r · · Score: 2, Funny

      Sitting on the couch yesterday, my gf asked when is the Stupid Bowl. So I put in a natural language query (sans quotes of course:)

      when is the damn super bowl motherfucker?

      The first result was "Super Bowl XLIV - New orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts. Sunday, Feb. 7 2010 -6:25 pm ET on CBS" with a link to nfl.com. Each team name was a link to their team website.

      I don't think they could have done a better job on the first result than that.

      We wandered around the house, got bored, eventually turned on the Stupid Bowl and watched most of it. I know, cool story bro, and disqualified because none of us have gfs in real life. But I do have the screenshot of search results.

  2. Interested in something else. by Asadullah+Ahmad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Forget the ad, I want that Internet Connection.

  3. Even more interesting by rinoid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Try this in your Google Suggest enabled search field (Safari, Firefox, Google home page):
    Just type the word "Why" ...

    First suggested results:
    Why do men have nipples
    Why is the sky blue
    Why is my poop green
    Why are black people so loud


    Recently bumped off the top list of suggested search results: "Why does my vag smell"

    What would we do with out such an enormous cultural asset such as Google?

    1. Re:Even more interesting by JackieBrown · · Score: 4, Funny

      Are you sure that your results are not based on your personal search history :)

    2. Re:Even more interesting by retchdog · · Score: 3, Funny

      This was even in the ad and it made me chuckle:

      "how to assemble a crossbow"

      I think consciously they left it in as a nod to the asocial male geek set.

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    3. Re:Even more interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Vaguely uncomfortable, eh? Like "why can't i own a canadian"?

    4. Re:Even more interesting by bertoelcon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Boy, people here are more bizarrely weird than I thought.

      This is the internet, may I ask what it is that you were expecting?

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    5. Re:Even more interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Even funnier when you start with:

      "How do I get my"
      "Why does my"

      These give better results in when you reside in US. Luckily I can replicate them in Safari's google search box (but not in google.fi page):

      "How do I get my sister/mother to sleep with me"
      "How do I get my mom to spank me"
      "How do I get my mom to stop drinking"
      "How do I get my boyfriend to kiss me"
      "How do I get my boyfriend to propose me"
      "How do I get my cat to stop peeing everywhere"
      "How do I get my dog to stop eating poop"

      "Why does my belly button smell"
      "Why does my dog eat cat poop"
      "Why does my dad beat me"
      "Why does my mom fart so much" ..etc..

    6. Re:Even more interesting by selven · · Score: 4, Funny

      This is the internet, may I ask what it is that you were expecting?

      The Spanish Inquisition.

  4. Re:I see how you might be confused by nicknamenotavailable · · Score: 5, Funny

    That is utter nonsense.
    There must be some mathematical equation or perl or ruby script involved somewhere.

  5. Re:I see how you might be confused by sentientbeing · · Score: 4, Funny

    begin; while {tits36c} find tits; end;

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  6. Re:I see how you might be confused by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Be careful. Some of the male readers here might be caught by that.

  7. Holy shit, Google knows everything about him! by Dr.+Spork · · Score: 5, Funny

    So the ad is telling us that some horny dude knocked up some chick in Paris and was looking for a church to confess his sins, and they told him that he can't leave the country or Jesus will zap him, and that he better buy a crib, but he's so poor that he has to build it instead, and next he'll probably search for "best suicide method" ... so thank God for Google, the benign giant who knows every minute detail of his pathetic life.

  8. I Don't Get It by pipingguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is a super bowl some kind of large toilet?

    1. Re:I Don't Get It by biryokumaru · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yes, and all the major corporations throw their money into it.

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  9. I thought it was sweet. by Orp · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought it was a sweet ad. At the end, though, I had him googling "divorce lawyer."

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  10. Those who ask, receive! by fibrewire · · Score: 5, Funny

    Haven't you heard of Google TiSP?

    http://www.google.com/tisp/

    I wonder why they didn't advertise this - everyone already uses google search.

    And for those wondering, Clearwire is just a franchise of Google TiSP

  11. Re:Best Ever? by fm6 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jeez, I didn't expect to get modded up. Is everybody feeling OK?

  12. Perl and Ruby script by electrosoccertux · · Score: 3, Funny

    it goes like this:

    Guy: "Hi, you're very pretty to me, here are some PERL earings. Will you go out with me?"
    Girl: "...."
    Guy: "I even got you this RUBY hairpin, will you go out with me now?"
    Girl: walks away
    Guy: "..."

    There's really no need to automate this, seeing as there are no unpredictable branches in the pipeline. You're going to get the same result every time. You might as well write "GOTO 5" and be done with it.

    1. Re:Perl and Ruby script by selven · · Score: 5, Funny

      Guy: Here's a python.

  13. Re:Autocomplete Search Results by Sopmeone · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sopmeone should compare

    Who the fuck is Sopmeone?

    Yeah, hi. Sopmeone here. I did compare the results but you won't be interested. Nice meeting you.

  14. Re:I see how you might be confused by azenpunk · · Score: 2, Funny

    everyone knows women are programmed with Brainfuck

  15. Re:Mod parent funny/insightful by Ginger+Unicorn · · Score: 5, Funny

    at any point in this conversation were either of you ever thinking about tits?

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  16. Chuck Norris by ndavis · · Score: 5, Funny

    All these comments and no one noticed that when they did the search for Church one of the queries that came up when they had only typed 'Chu' was 'Chuck Norris' Which makes this the coolest ad and now the Google employees better watch out for roundhouse kick related incidents.