Google Opens U.K. Cybercafe and Testing Lab 82
sebFlyte writes "Google has launched a new venture in England to go with its London offices. They've set up a free Web cafe style affair at London's Heathrow airport to help travelers claw back some of the many hours they spend aimlessly wandering round airport lounges. They're not doing it entirely selflessly though: they admit the main reason they're doing it is to get as wide and as large a cross section of people through the centre as they can so that they can then watch them interact with Google's Web applications. ZDNet has photos, too."
another good community minded move (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:another good community minded move (Score:3, Insightful)
they are just profiling the usage of their systems, and of course gaining some image
Re:Hmm... Noticed something... (Score:5, Insightful)
Attractive Assistants (Score:3, Insightful)
Take a look at this [zdnet.co.uk] photo and all the sudden it makes sense...
Re:Attractive Assistants (Score:3, Insightful)
10:1 says that, after a shift, she's the only one saying to her co-workers "I just can't believe how nice people are."
Re:Table of Contents for all Google News (Score:3, Insightful)
- Meta google story analysis.
Re:Great! (Score:2, Insightful)
I am always glad to see companies being less than ruthlessly hardnosed, but even so perhaps are we now expecting companies to be 'entirely selfless'? Sounds like the Slashdot community has been reading too much Karl Marx...
Terminal blues (Score:4, Insightful)
The place is awash with stories about Google taking over the world and putting the fear of god into corporate behemoths everywhere. But take a hard look at what Google is actually doing rather than what analysts are saying. Google is a not very large company which runs the world's best search/advertising engine and has a number of frankly rather modest beta projects going. And that is all. In many ways, Google has yet to prove itself. Sooner or later, the Google boys and girls are going to have to come out with some aggressive killer moves or folks might just conclude that the story is a soap opera about California cool with, alas, little more substance than a completely crazy stock price.
Re:Hmm... Noticed something... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:I don't get it ... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Hmm... Noticed something... (Score:1, Insightful)