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What have Google ever done for us?

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SCENE: The interior of the Bronco offices – a dark room with a conspiratorial atmosphere. DAVE and CARPS are seated at a desk next to a monitor, watching old adverts from the 80s on one tab, Google open on another, drawing on a whiteboard. RORY is standing at the end of the table in a Yahoo! t-shirt. ANTHONY, CARLA, SLATER and WHITEHOUSE are sat on the floor, looking on.

CARPS …so we break into the SERPs by using Google News. We create a news site running on a WordPress template… pretend we have a load of writers… get through vetting. Having grabbed a top spot for ‘kitchen sink’ we blog about how ace we are and issue our demands to Google
WHITEHOUSE What exactly are our demands, Dave?
DAVE We’re giving Google two days to dismantle their entire search infrastructure. And if they don’t…. we SPAM THEM TO DEATH
WHITEHOUSE Spam what?
DAVE Spam all of it. News… blog search… maps… real time… on the hour, every hour. And we’ll photoshop Eric Schmidt wearing a Bing t-shirt. And we shall not submit to Webmaster Guidelines
RORY (excited) No guidelines!
DAVE They’ve bled us white the bastards. They’ve taken everything we had – and not just from us. From Altavista, Lycos, Looksmart and Dogpile
WHITEHOUSE …and Yell.com and Infoseek and All The Web…
DAVE OK OK – don’t labour the point, Whitehouse. And what have they ever given us in return?
ANTHONY Google Maps?
DAVE Oh yeah, yeah they gave us that. Yeah. That’s true.
RORY And Google Earth
CARPS Oh – that’s awesome! How much time have you spent looking for your Antie Jean’s house so you can see how big her garden really is?
DAVE All right, I’ll grant you that Google Maps and Earth are two things that Google have done…
CARLA Analytics..?
DAVE Well yes obviously Analytics… Analytics goes without saying. But apart from maps, Google Earth and Analytics…
CARPS Gmail..
WHITEHOUSE Google Docs… Google Calendars… book search
DAVE Yes… all right, fair enough…
CARLA And Google News
CARPS Oh yeah – that’s true
ANTHONY Yeah. That’s something we’d really miss if Google left, Dave.
WHITEHOUSE Google Shopping
RORY And the SERPs are normally pretty spam-free these days
CARPS Yes, they certainly know how to keep order… (general nodding)… let’s face it, they’re the only ones who could on the internet as it is.(more general murmurs of agreement)
ANTHONY And Google listings for local businesses…
DAVE All right… all right… but apart from better SERPs and free email and free accurate web Analytics and Google Earth and maps and searchable, up to date news and a free online alternative to Microsoft Office and affordable advertising for local businesses and a really cool mapping system… what have Google done for us?
SLATER Orkut?
ALL ….

Added By Dave Naylor :
Just like the Romans did in the “Life of Brian” LOL! ( we stole the idea from there ) they brought order and a new way of life, Google has done the same and for that we salute you and 99% of the Googlers that work for you,… ;) the realtime guy I not so sure about you at the moment.

13 Comments

  • Dom Hodgson 1281 days ago

    http://www.thehodge.co.uk

    I was going to post a ‘dead parrot sketch’ parody with bing and yahoo, but can’t be arsed… you can just assume it was funny and laugh anyway

    Reply
    • LordManley 868 days ago

      http://twitter.com/?status=@lordmanley

      The parrot sketch was originally written about a toaster. I feel that there must be a keyword research allegory in there somewhere.

      Reply
  • FuziJuzi 1281 days ago

    Monty Python modern a la Google… I love it!

    Reply
  • Carla 1281 days ago

    http://www.sorbetdigital.com

    Mmmm, seems to be one very important member of the team missing there *flounces off*

    Reply
  • paul carpenter 1281 days ago

    http://www.itsafamilything.co.uk

    What do you mean? :p

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  • Dom Hodgson 1281 days ago

    http://www.thehodge.co.uk

    Paul, your supposed to respond with ‘yeah Becky didn’t say anything’…. I CARN’T WORK UNDER THESE CONDITIONS

    Reply
  • Erik Boman 1281 days ago

    Good post, it certainly cracked me up.

    Reply
  • Carla 1281 days ago

    http://www.sorbetdigital.com

    Hahaha quick work there Carps

    Reply
  • Becky 1281 days ago

    http://www.beckynaylor.co.uk

    LOL, cheers Dom.
    Great post as it does highlight that even though everyone bitches about what Google has done or introduced that they have certainly brought a lot of good to the industry over the years … plus lets remember they are the ones that put food on the table.

    Reply
  • Vinay 1281 days ago

    http://twitter.com/iVinay

    How about we remember Google Chrome & Upcoming Chrome OS :) ? Of all that Google offers I think GMail & Google Maps are two mostly used services!

    Orkut – big joke… Google still still has no clue what Social Networking really is.. consider Jaiku or any social service they acquired – they are simply clueless and scew whats already is in.

    Nice post though… had my part of fun reading through the chat transcripts :D

    Reply
  • Dan 1275 days ago

    http://www.hjwebdesign.co.uk

    I hear that Vinay. What about chrome? Android? and my favourite Sketch up? Sketch up is a ridiculously powerful, useful and versatile piece of software, and google lets you have it for free!!

    Reply
  • Nate Gilmore 1266 days ago

    http://www.shipwire.com

    this had me in stitches…thanks for all the great instructional content Broncos (SCU Broncos are my old team).

    and google alerts…and a few good April Fools jokes over the years.

    Happy holidays

    N8

    Reply
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