Google sends reporter a GIF instead of a 'no comment'
My favorite Google "No comment" response is still their response to Randall Munroe about his analysis of how big their data centers are:
Gifs and memes are how we will get to "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" and "Shokath, his eyes uncovered"
I'm sort of confused by this gif. I wouldn't look at it and say "that girl turning her head in one direction repeatedly means no comment". If it were funny, and actually had some sort of "denied" slant to it, then fine, but this particular gif makes no sense to me as a response to a request for comment. I guess when you have as much money as Google does you can be as disrespectful to reporters as you like, but at least try to be entertaining.
Reminds me of the GIF Detectify got from Google after getting into their production servers because of a vulnerability in the "Google Toolbar" portal [1] :
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/blog.images/google/niceme...
[1] http://blog.detectify.com/post/82370846588/how-we-got-read-a...
Well, whats good for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary should be ok for Google.
http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/2015/3/at-the-flick-of-...
Doesn't surprise me. I released a couple easter eggs when I was at Google (notably [festivus] and [let it snow]), and the official response PR prepared for one of them was a poem. It's part of Google's quirky culture.
Google also did this when they had the Google Toolbar remote exploit vulnerability reported and the guy asked about the reward, a good read on its own:
http://blog.detectify.com/post/82370846588/how-we-got-read-a...
Google. Such an adorably hip, cool underdog.
Am I alone in thinking this is utterly infantile behaviour?
It makes me rather sad that the art of correspondence (the beautiful letters of bygone times) is now gradually being replaced with Facebook Messenger and animated GIFs.
As somebody who has a SO who works at Google, thus giving me a bit of insight into the culture, I can factually say that gifs and lolcat-like memes have already started replacing the English language there.
With all those broken email readers, how can one even assume that a gif will animate when the recipient opens the email?
I, for one, fully support our gif-replying internet overlords.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/31250/gifs/thumbs_up.gif
Didn't wired.com just overhaul their site? Very slow and clunky on my end...
I dont understand how that GIF represents "no comment". To me it looks more like an "I don't know" or "I've no idea" statement.
Also, I don't see why this is news. GIFs have been used like this for several years now. Reddit is replete with such usage.
I usually get memes from Google official responses.
I think this response is connected maybe to yesterday's facebook (f8) event...
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Hero worship, truly the habit of enlightened.
Google PR are such a bunch of fucking clowns.