Do We Need To Know Everything About Google?
Damn, everytime I go through Valleywag, I say, “Surely, they’ve crossed the line this time!” Amazingly, there is no anti-Valleywag campaign, no angry missives from Google, and no blogs spouting angry rhetoric against the Silicon Valley gossip king.
Valleywag’s number one target of late has got to be Google CEO Eric Schmidt. Witness their latest topping of themselves: A report that at SES San Jose, Eric Schmidt used the “facilities” and didn’t wash his hands afterwards. Oy. Not only that, but they ancouraged readers to send in a pic of them shaking Schmidt’s hands; first to shake his hand would win admission with Wagger Nick Douglas to his next +1 event. Post title: “The race to shake Eric Schmidt’s germy hand“.
I can only imagine Schmidt sitting back, furious, knowing there’s nothing he can do about it. Can you imagine, every time he shakes someone’s hand, wondering if that person read Valleywag, and is feeling a little weird about it? I kinda feel bad for him, but I’d pee all over Nick Douglas if it got me a few billion dollars.
Of course, there’s the ongoing saga of Schmidt and his wife. We won’t speculate as to the well-known gossip, but the latest involves his PR flack trying to suppress all media outlets covering the Circus Flora event in Nantucket from printing any photos of him and his wife. Chances are, it was just an off-the-cuff remark to the publicist that got turned into a Boston Herald story, but maybe next time the big man will realize that the media hates being told what to do, and he should just learn to go with it.
Finally, in a weird event, some company decided to buy free publicity by sending Google a thousand pizzas under some thin reasoning (the National Viking Association?). Check out the video on YouTube:
See, I think that if you were doing this at AT&T or IBM, you’d be embraced. But at Google, with their free food, they don’t need your thousand pizzas, and can afford to send you out on your rear.
Oh, and the fight over Google’s plane has been settled. Did they get the hammocks?
In Eric’s case, the real irony is that - that * particular area * of the body may actually be the most germ free - because it is almost always CONSTANTLY COVERED….
… from the moment you take your morning shower, until you put on your pajama pants at night!
Comment by Search Engine WEB ۞ | August 14, 2006