Bebo Says Google a Nightmare
November 28, 2008
This story is getting pretty tough to locate online. I found a version at Mad.co.uk, and you can try to access “Bebo’s Burns Labels Google a Nightmare to Deal with” here. The story is hooked to Kate Burns, a person who was according to the story by Suzanne Bearne was “Google’s first employee in the UK.” Apparently the comments were made at a public forum in the UK. The article reports that another speaker described Google as a “parasite”. The most interesting comment in the article, in my opinion, was this chunk of prose:
Kelvin Mackenzie, chairman of Myvideorights.com and former editor of The Sun, said, YouTube is a fantastic idea but the piracy issues involved with the company are “a disgrace for smaller companies.”
My pal Cyrus, the world’s smartest person in his mind, often accuses me of Photoshopping Google information. Here is the screen shot I made of the Mad Web page. Sorry about the resolution Cyrus, but that’s the way WordPress handles images.
Source: http://www.mad.co.uk
I have several thoughts in my addled goose brain which I intend to capture:
- A former employee had to learn how to deal with Google. This suggests that Google is changing, so that former Googlers may not be able to provide the “inside Google” knowledge that many organizations want
- The word “nightmare” is quite colorful and its suggests that my mental image of Googzilla which I débuted in early 2005 is works for me. Your mental image of Google may differ from mine, of course.
- The combination of Google’s culture and the YouTube.com service seem to be an explosive combination for some non-Googley types. However, I bet their children are hooked on YouTube.com and mom and dad won’t admit that from a demographic point of view, Google may be rooted for the long haul.
One final thought: this story is getting hard to find. Yahoo 404s. NewsNow.co.uk reports zero hits. No reference in AllTheWeb.com news. But I found the story using the query “bebo burns” on Google News at 10 44 am Eastern on November 27, 2008.
That’s interesting to me. Now I want to run the query “google nightmare.”
Stephen Arnold, November 28, 2008
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