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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."
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.
Major company runs television ad during profitable sports event.
Gasp. Newsworthy indeed.
StoneCypher is Full of BS
This being Slashdot, I understand how this might seem confusing to some readers, but that's actually the way some romances happen. A guy meets a girl, likes her, tries to impress her, and amazingly, it works.
Forget the ad, I want that Internet Connection.
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?
...who thought this ad was pretty damn brilliant? Low-key, sure, but also sweet, memorable, and focused on the product/service itself rather than hype and glitz? I thought it promoted the both the company's values and the value of what they provide to their customers extraordinarily well.
Maybe I'm just not cynical enough, but it sure gets my vote. /tsg/
It was well done. It described what many people use Google for.
Actually, I thought it was simple and to the point (something you don't see very much in Super Bowl ads).
I didn't watch the Superbowl (cable's out), and so far three friends have called me to tell me to watch this ad, while I haven't heard a peep about any of the other ads that aired. I'd qualify that as a pretty significant success.
Also consider that the ad's simplistic nature can be thought of as a reflection of Google's products. Apple's used same strategy very successfully while marketing the iPhone, albeit from a somewhat different angle.
I also wouldn't list Apple's '1984' as a particularly good ad. It was expensive, confusing, and made absolutely no mention of the product being advertised. My favorite super bowl ad is still the E-Trade monkey ad.
-- If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done? - Uli's moose
Oh gawd. That ad was based around a lame, confusing reference to a certain novel — a novel that the makers obviously had not read. It doesn't make sense to anybody who doesn't already think that Apple products are Destined to Save the World. Anybody who thinks this is "best ever" needs to get out more.
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.
Is a super bowl some kind of large toilet?
Doesn't everyone already use google search? Wouldn't they have gotten much more bang for the buck with a Chrome ad?
it was AOL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal )
I thought it was a sweet ad. At the end, though, I had him googling "divorce lawyer."
A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me?
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
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.
This was one of the company's many April 1 jokes.
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Who the fuck is Sopmeone?
Yeah, hi. Sopmeone here. I did compare the results but you won't be interested. Nice meeting you.
Since I'm a Saints fan and we just made Peyton Manning piss his pants,I'm in a really good mood. The Crown Royal helped....The Google ad painted an exceptional picture of just how well connected we are to the Web. You mean there are other search engines - other than Bing? Now about the Saints- you guys drive on down to New Awlins Tuesday. Sign up for Parting 501. Yeah,its a grad course.
There are six more of them here: http://www.youtube.com/searchstories It's a really good campaign. Most of the videos have the awww factor and it shows off Google's services very effectively.
I don't get the criticism of the Google ad, I thought it was just perfect.
It has a story.
The story is not offensive, but rather personal and endearing.
There is a positive message.
There is a happy end (since we're expecting a baby any day, I am quite biased on this one).
And google is there, from the very beginning, like a faithful, useful, reliable friend.
I think this ad has genius written all over it.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
at any point in this conversation were either of you ever thinking about tits?
(1.21 gigawatts) / (88 miles per hour) = 30 757 874 newtons
I have heard that already. Some people get the impression that anything you reach through Google is on Google. And I've heard people complain when they find Google "hosting" a site with offensive material.
I liked the commercial. It tells people that Google is still doing very cool and useful things with simple text instead of pretty pictures and vast advertising campaigns (Bing). And it reminds people that Google still does search. With all the Google-branded phones and software, I'm worried that Google is going to get a black eye from one of them and spoil the entire brand.
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.