Google Airs Super Bowl Ad

theodp writes "CNET's hunch that Google might run a Super Bowl ad entitled 'Parisian Love' proved to be well-founded. The ad just ran (did you know that you can search the Internet using Google?), and Apple certainly doesn't have to worry about losing its claim to having produced the best Super Bowl ad ever. In fact, you might want to check out the spoof 'Parisian Love' apparently inspired — 'Is Tiger Feeling Lucky?' — if you want to see a better pitch for Google."

First Polanski

[Ethanol-fueled]

Here are the searches from the commercial, in order:

• "study abroad paris france"
• "cafes near the louve"
• "translate tu es tres mignon"
• "impress a french girl"
• "chocolate shops paris"
• "what are truffles"
• "who is traffaut"
• "long distance relationship advice"
• "jobs in paris"
• "AA120"
• "churches in paris
• "how to assemble a crib"

Did anybody else find that kinda...creepy? Like some Roman Polanski just met a possibly underage girl* in a chat room and now he's going to stalk her* while fantasizing about moving near her*, gettin married*, and having a kid* all while he dosen't even know French*.

* the "girl", "AA 120" airline, "jobs", "church", "crib", and "translate" searches; respectively.

Interested in something else.

[Asadullah Ahmad]

Forget the ad, I want that Internet Connection.

Even more interesting

[rinoid]

Try this in your Google Suggest enabled search field (Safari, Firefox, Google home page):
Just type the word "Why" ...

First suggested results:
Why do men have nipples
Why is the sky blue
Why is my poop green
Why are black people so loud


Recently bumped off the top list of suggested search results: "Why does my vag smell"

What would we do with out such an enormous cultural asset such as Google?

Re:I see how you might be confused

[nicknamenotavailable]

That is utter nonsense.
There must be some mathematical equation or perl or ruby script involved somewhere.

Re:First Polanski

[sakdoctor]

• Buy cafes near the louve on ebay
• Buy impress a french girl on ebay
• Buy long distance relationship on ebay
• Buy churches in paris on ebay

Re:Even more interesting

[JackieBrown]

Are you sure that your results are not based on your personal search history :)

Re:Even more interesting

[retchdog]

This was even in the ad and it made me chuckle:

"how to assemble a crossbow"

I think consciously they left it in as a nod to the asocial male geek set.

Re:I see how you might be confused

[sentientbeing]

begin; while {tits36c} find tits; end;

Re:I see how you might be confused

[Anonymous Coward]

Be careful. Some of the male readers here might be caught by that.

Re:First Polanski

[Trepidity]

I really do get a similar result for your 3rd example:

Buy long-distance relationship at Amazon! Qualified orders over $25 ship free

Holy shit, Google knows everything about him!

[Dr. Spork]

So the ad is telling us that some horny dude knocked up some chick in Paris and was looking for a church to confess his sins, and they told him that he can't leave the country or Jesus will zap him, and that he better buy a crib, but he's so poor that he has to build it instead, and next he'll probably search for "best suicide method" ... so thank God for Google, the benign giant who knows every minute detail of his pathetic life.

I Don't Get It

[pipingguy]

Is a super bowl some kind of large toilet?

I thought it was sweet.

[Orp]

I thought it was a sweet ad. At the end, though, I had him googling "divorce lawyer."

Re:Even more interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Vaguely uncomfortable, eh? Like "why can't i own a canadian"?

Re:I Don't Get It

[biryokumaru]

Yes, and all the major corporations throw their money into it.

Re:First Polanski

[russotto]

It's just you. Any idiot could see the story: An American guy went to study abroad in Paris, went to a cafe, met a French girl who told him he was cute, bought her some chocolate, found out about her favorite films, and eventually moved to Paris to be the handyman to her and her husband.

Those who ask, receive!

[fibrewire]

Haven't you heard of Google TiSP?

http://www.google.com/tisp/ [google.com]

I wonder why they didn't advertise this - everyone already uses google search.

And for those wondering, Clearwire is just a franchise of Google TiSP

Re:Even more interesting

[bertoelcon]

Boy, people here are more bizarrely weird than I thought.

This is the internet, may I ask what it is that you were expecting?

Re:Best Ever?

[fm6]

Jeez, I didn't expect to get modded up. Is everybody feeling OK?

Re:Even more interesting

[Anonymous Coward]

Even funnier when you start with:

"How do I get my"
"Why does my"

These give better results in when you reside in US. Luckily I can replicate them in Safari's google search box (but not in google.fi page):

"How do I get my sister/mother to sleep with me"
"How do I get my mom to spank me"
"How do I get my mom to stop drinking"
"How do I get my boyfriend to kiss me"
"How do I get my boyfriend to propose me"
"How do I get my cat to stop peeing everywhere"
"How do I get my dog to stop eating poop"

"Why does my belly button smell"
"Why does my dog eat cat poop"
"Why does my dad beat me"
"Why does my mom fart so much" ..etc..

Perl and Ruby script

[electrosoccertux]

it goes like this:

Guy: "Hi, you're very pretty to me, here are some PERL earings. Will you go out with me?"
Girl: "...."
Guy: "I even got you this RUBY hairpin, will you go out with me now?"
Girl: walks away
Guy: "..."

There's really no need to automate this, seeing as there are no unpredictable branches in the pipeline. You're going to get the same result every time. You might as well write "GOTO 5" and be done with it.

Re:Autocomplete Search Results

[Sopmeone]

Sopmeone should compare

Who the fuck is Sopmeone?

Yeah, hi. Sopmeone here. I did compare the results but you won't be interested. Nice meeting you.

Re:First Polanski

[Sebilrazen]

Buy cafes near the louve on ebay

Unlikely. It would spelled correctly [wikipedia.org].

I love that a post complaining about spelling has such horrible grammar.

Re:I see how you might be confused

[azenpunk]

everyone knows women are programmed with Brainfuck

Re:First Polanski

[Anonymous Coward]

He accidentally a word.

Re:First Polanski

[VShael]

It's just you. Any idiot could see the story: An American guy went to study abroad in Paris, went to a cafe, met a French girl who told him he was cute, bought her some chocolate, found out about her favorite films, and eventually moved to Paris to be the handyman to her and her husband.

Ah to be the handyman in a Parisian family... you have all the sex with the Mrs, but none of the responsibility of raising/paying for the children.

Re:Perl and Ruby script

[selven]

Guy: Here's a python.

Re:Even more interesting

[selven]

This is the internet, may I ask what it is that you were expecting?

The Spanish Inquisition.

Re:First Polanski

[delinear]

Here are the searches from the commercial, in order:

• "study abroad paris france"
• "cafes near the louve"
• "translate tu es tres mignon"

[SNIP]

Ack, dude, spoiler warning, spoiler warning!

Re:First Polanski

[Anonymous Coward]

Well... at least he didn't accidentally the whole thing...

Re:Mod parent funny/insightful

[Ginger Unicorn]

at any point in this conversation were either of you ever thinking about tits?

Re:First Polanski

[0100010001010011]

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

Chuck Norris

[ndavis]

All these comments and no one noticed that when they did the search for Church one of the queries that came up when they had only typed 'Chu' was 'Chuck Norris' Which makes this the coolest ad and now the Google employees better watch out for roundhouse kick related incidents.

Re:First Polanski

[slimjim8094]

Wow. Sucks to be you.

I'm dead serious.

Re:First Polanski

[b4dc0d3r]

Sitting on the couch yesterday, my gf asked when is the Stupid Bowl. So I put in a natural language query (sans quotes of course:)

when is the damn super bowl motherfucker?

The first result was "Super Bowl XLIV - New orleans Saints vs. Indianapolis Colts. Sunday, Feb. 7 2010 -6:25 pm ET on CBS" with a link to nfl.com. Each team name was a link to their team website.

I don't think they could have done a better job on the first result than that.

We wandered around the house, got bored, eventually turned on the Stupid Bowl and watched most of it. I know, cool story bro, and disqualified because none of us have gfs in real life. But I do have the screenshot of search results.