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."

Re:First Polanski

[sakdoctor]

There were technical inaccuracies in the advert.

The cursor moved, which in reality triggers that bullshit, javascript fade thing.
The google SERPs page only looks like that to an adblock user.

Re:First Polanski

[Anonymous Coward]

*Didn't watch the commercial*

Re:Undertones

[FrancoisHarvey]

it was AOL ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_scandal [wikipedia.org] )

Re:Am I the only one...?

[TooMuchToDo]

If you watch all the Super Bowl ads through Hulu (AdZone), they show the aggregate ratings people gave to each ad (like/dislike). The Google ad has the highest like rating so far.

Re:Interested in something else.

[nicknamenotavailable]

Try google DNS [google.com].

No, I'm not joking.

I upgraded everything, but still found that it took very long to begin loading a page.
A heavily 'ad-laden' page has to make many DNS queries before the page even starts to appear.
Google DNS is an order of magnitude faster than the one provided with my Bell WiMax.

But make sure you test it first. Your ISP's DNS might not be as bad as mine.

Re:Even more interesting

[wizardforce]

It's referring to various biblical/torah passages that seemingly condone slavery. Many religious people use old testament/torah passages as justification for homophobia and this "can I own a Canadian?" [google.com] un-sourced letter in particular was a response to that sentiment.

Re:Someone at Google is WEIRD.

[Tacvek]

This was one of the company's many April 1 jokes.

Re:Even more interesting

[camcorder]

Are you aware that Google harvest results based on your previous web history and personal profile?

More Search Stories

[Paaskonijn]

There are six more of them here: http://www.youtube.com/searchstories [youtube.com] It's a really good campaign. Most of the videos have the awww factor and it shows off Google's services very effectively.

Re:Even more interesting

[stephanruby]

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

Why do men have nipples? [amazon.com] is a humor book. It's a New York Times Bestseller.

If you don't like that query, blame the New York Times, or blame the author of that book. Don't blame Google. The same goes for the rest of those queries, you can probably blame the rest of those queries on TV Quiz shows, or on people trying to game the system. In any case, "why" is a super-vague query, most people enter quite a few more meaningful keywords. Judging Google on that criterion alone just tells us more about you than anything it tells us about Google.