Google hypocrisy: “Do as I say, not as I do.”


One sure way to get slapped by Google is having, crude, hand drawn arrows on a page with not much content.

I love them because they work a treat. Anything that interrupts visually does.

Google hates them because “they don’t enrich the user’s experience”. So what was on yesterday’s Google screen?

A bloody great big scrawled arrow to promote google+. Well, fancy that.

Was my experience enriched? Yes. I laughed, and remembered this:

“Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue – Oscar Wilde, I think.

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I've spent the last 15 years working with Drayton.

And, as well as writing copy for our clients, run the agency side of the business.

3 Comments

  1. Genius.

    When in doubt, break your own rules. 

  2. Ari_Goldstein

    Google is run by hypocrits.

    These are the same people who complain Palestine wants to extinguish Israel. But that's exactly what they've done to Palestine. Look at Google maps and Palestine isn't even on there any more. All you see is Israel.

  3. Nigel

    And “Hypocrisy can find a cloak for every rain” – New Custom, 1573

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