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Teenagers Think Google is Cool, Study By Google Finds (theguardian.com)
Today's teenagers think Google and Google brands are cool, research funded by Google has found. From a report: Google published "It's Lit: A guide to what teens think is cool", a "magazine" compiling the results of its research into Generation Z, characterised as those aged from 13 to 17. The Google-funded research found Generation Z relied on brands to "shape their world," and that Google was the third-most cool. Cool was defined by the researchers as "unique, impressive, interesting, amazing, or awesome." YouTube, which Google owns, came out at number one ahead of Netflix. Google's web browser Chrome placed tenth, in front of Nike.
So it's a magazine created by Google talking about how "cool" other people think it is. This is a company whose business model is entirely based on privacy invasive user-tracking advertising. This shouldn't be a story here on slashdot, but come to think of it, it's good to have Google BS to be shown here to bring awareness, so to speak.
if you have to tell people that you are cool then you are definitely NOT cool.
anonymous cowards think msmash is NOT cool, study by anonymous cowards finds
A Microsoft study showed teens thought Zune was cool.
Table-ized A.I.
"I love giving my data to companies. Giving my data to Google is by far the coolest. What could be more cool than that? Nothing, that's what I think. Some kids in my class don't give their data to Google, but they're losers. Google is cool."
Not necessarily teens have access to mom and dads money. Apple and Facebook use to be cool then they got boring. Apple hasn't released a wow product in years. Facebook is too much effort because mom and dad are spying on it.
Google is still trying to innovate.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
The other things were more interesting. Facebook is, apparently, not very cool (to the extent that even Uber is more cool, as are Walmart and Samsung). Facebook Messenger is even less cool than Facebook but, ironically, WhatsApp is even less cool (maybe buying it wasn't such a good plan for Facebook after all).
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The engineering talent at Google is very much like high school. All the "winners" attend there. Meanwhile, the "losers" (everyone else) are support contractors.
1. A study by Google about Google finds that kids think Google is cool. TOTALLY LEGIT.
2. 13-17 year olds are universally recognized as being rational, thoughtful, pro-active, and mature in their decision-making processes. TOTALLY LEGIT.
We should all feel insulted by Google over this. Apparently they think we're all violently stupid.
I'm pretty sure we saw a very similar Slashdot submission 10-12 years ago... just replace "Google" with "Microsoft".
#DeleteChrome
"Isn't it awesome how awesome I am?"
Hey, Windows users, there is no such thing as "forward" slash, there is only slash and backslash.
Dude, this is like totally radical
Avantgarde Hebrew science fiction
"study by google finds". That alone should start causing ears to perk up. Companies always look for reasons to pat themselves on the back to the public, even if it is misleading or outright wrong in some cases. Show me an independent (and shown untainted by Google's influence) and maybe I'll be interested.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Einstein
Google is abusing that word "cool" to mean mean generically "stuff I like" whereas typically, and particularly with teenagers who as a class are are especially concerned with impressing their peers , "cool" means stuff with social cachet. Synonyms for "cool" (according to a Google search) are "fashionable, stylish, chic, up-to-the-minute, sophisticated." Google is liked because it is reliable, has utility and is free not because it is any of those things.
What Google has is a popular product. What they are falsely claiming is that they have a "cool" product; Teenagers do not display Google branding to impress other teenagers like they wore "Calvin Klein" on the ass of their bluejeans when I was that age.
Generally, branding is no longer cool. Jimmy DiResta paints over the branding of his tools with white paint (or he did until DeWalt paid him not to), Casey Neistat carves the Ray-Ban logo off of his Ray-Bans. Brandlessness has been central to the Muji identity since its founding in 1979.
Ceci n'est pas une signature.
I don't say evasion. I say avoision.
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#DeleteChrome
No seriously, why would anyone that isn't competing with or invested in the Alphabet actually care? Does anyone really care what teenagers think is cool or are they just trying to sell a product?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Yeah, no vested interest in effect there.
Um, I preferred to do a "how you use it" study on mine.
Table-ized A.I.
Arrange the turds in order from hottest to coldest! Good, good. You done with that? Good! Guess what's for dinner?
Cloudiot: A person who does not see offsite storage as a way to lose control over access to his or her own data.
Clearly the success of google+ over facebook is an indicator this study couldn't possibly be wrong or bias....
because article of “Student Loan Debt Has Nearly Tripled” was posted after this?
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I assure you, we didn't have any fucking idea what was cool.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Self proclaimed top researchers at TheOuterLinux.com say that it's cool. See how that works?
Sorry to break it you, but "lit" is already cringy to actual teens, as opposed to teen wannabees lurking around Goog's cafeterias. And pretty much anything a Goog thinks is cool to teens, is actually cringy. Hangouts, for example.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
You're clearly just talking about evadence.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.