[Cialug] OT: Google

[Aaron Korver]

And isn't that really a shame?  Think if people would be more willing to
simply say "This is what we are going to do, and we acknowledge we won't
make everyone happy, so deal with it".  I could rant for a long time about
this quirk of our current society.

On 2/14/07, Matthew Nuzum <matthew.nuzum at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 11:51 -0600, Jim Asbille wrote:
> > Obviously IT folks are big on Google, we noticed it here and had the
> > same conversation.  The stem probably is the L but it sure doesn't
> > look like it on first viewing.
> >
> > On 2/14/07, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
> >         Yeah, because that's intuitive.  I'll have to assume that's
> >         the case, then.
> >
> >         Dave Weis wrote:
> >         > I think the G and L are kind of combined, I think the stem
> >         of the
> >         > strawberry is the L.
>
> It takes a lot of guts to do creative stuff like that. Most companies
> would get bogged down in meeting after meeting discussing using the logo
> in that way IF they even considered something like that at all.
>
> The conversation would probably look like this:
> - ZOMG! They might think we're changing our name to Googe!
> - And what are the connotations of using a strawberry?
> - Some people are deathly allergic to chocolate, and will be offended if
> we use it in the logo
> - I still think it was a bad idea using yellow for one of the "O's"
> since yellow is associated with Nazi's
> - can we make the e a little different? It looks like it's laughing at
> me
> - maybe we should use hearts instead of 'oo'
> - hearts are way overdone, maybe we should make the 'oo' into two
> breasts wearing red negligee
> - you dork, we can't put breasts on the logo
> [ad infinitum...]
>
> ;-)
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