Google’s Marissa Mayer has discovered the ‘delete’ button on Twitter, but much like you can find deleted web pages using Google cache search, you can also uncover removed tweets by using Twitter Search. So what did she tweet that was so bad that it needed to be removed?
A link to a satirical article on BBspot about the whole Google Voice iPhone app removal brouhaha, titled “Google Pulls Apple from Search Results”. In it, an author of the comedy news site writes that Google has removed all search results leading to Apple.com from its index, and redirecting searches for “iPhone” and “app store” to the IMDb.com page for Payback.
Mayer gets quoted a couple of times in the piece as well:
Google’s official explanation for removing Apple from its search results came from Vice-President in charge of search, Marissa Mayer, “Those search results duplicate a lot of the functionality of other sites. For example, people can find cell phones on many other sites. We just think this makes it easier for our users.”
Pretty funny for much everyone, but for such a key Google employee to link to that article could be a bit offensive to some (both inside Google and Apple), hence the removal, probably. But it does show what she thinks about the whole thing, that she has a sense of humour, and which sites she tends to visit to get her news.
Update: this is very reminiscent of Randi Zuckerberg’s joke on Twitter about possibly deleted a club and its bouncer’s pages from Facebook.
LOL. That is pretty funny though. ;->
She also tried to pull it from twitter. TechCrunch is next.
Its already in TC
this is the worst thing about the internet, nobody can make reference to anything humorous without potentially losing their job. silly internets.
Steve Jobs hinted that another strange coincidence might occur soon. “Safari may be getting a different search engine, just saying,” said Jobs.
“Oooh, I’m shaking,” said Mayer.
HA! An exec with a sense of humor about herself. Good stuff.
In related news, God just decided to pull back the free supply of electrons on mother earth.
“Inventing and providing electrons was a terrible mistake. Just look at what (expletive deleted) they’re doing with them. This needs to stop.”, God said, asked for the reasons of this unexpected move.
Well, happy googling and iphoning, everybody.
–For TC world news, Cail.
And this is news, why?
Because we posted it.
+1
+2 lol
+3 Mmmm, saucy!
How arrogant. Publish this. “”Look, I sent you a link! Oh, well I sent you a link too! That’s great, we’re journalists!”
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TechCrunch: We Retort, You Subside
or as someone famous put it:
“We Retards, you Scoble.”
No, actually it’s because we’re reading it.
We’re the end of the chain. All your base belong to us
na, that makes it art
George: Its a show about nothing.
NBC Exec: Why are people watching it?
George: Because its on TV.
Nice +++
Is this TechCrunch or valleymag?
I’ll let the other trolls put the usual whining phrases under this comment.
Because it involves twitter.
+1
lol. that’s the point isn’t it.
i read that and thought why am i reading this…but it is funny that she deleted that. she should have just left it as is.
priceless lol
Just watched some of her videos. She’s kinda cute for real.
That’s funny. It’s not like she wrote the article.
Anyone offended by this has something wrong with them.
(Plus she’s cute and, as we know, cute girls can get away with anything).
lol
seriously, how else could she think?
all life is open and all business is now open too, Marissa like everyone has a human side too, that’s good to see
Oppss, so how can we get rid of these problem? Hmm, just hoping..
Grow a pair, Marissa! She should have left it up. The world needs more humor. I hate the corporate way of thinking where everything is serious and you can’t say shit about anything.
wow…this is the most uninteresting story I have read on twitter
As the author of the article, I agree that she shoul’ve left the tweet up.
The question is – why doesn’t the “delete” option actually delete what you intended to delete? Surely that’s what delete means?
On the Internet, no one can hear you delete.
Ah good catch, it’s a navigation UI bug. Please file a bug on it. Marissa do you agree?
Not on planet Twitter. There it goes
Twitter: “Are you sure you want to delete your tweet? [yN]”
Me: “Y”
Twitter: “Look, we’re pretty sure you don’t want us to delete your tweet. Please confirm that you’re fine with not deleting it [Yn]”
Me: “N”
Twitter: “Ok, we admit it. We can’t delete your tweet as our engineers haven’t figured out yet how to do this without crashing our servers. Do you want us to pretend we deleted your tweet? [Yn]”
Me: “N”
Twitter: “Oh fsck off, man! We’re Twitter! Oprah likes us. Hollywood likes us. Why don’t you like us? Do you prefer using Facebook, FriendFeed or Google Wave instead? [N]”
Me: “Y”
Twitter: System error. Servers rebooting. Preparing whales.
lol.
As far it is a joke, there is no offense ?
Apple removal of Google Voice application is not a joke. Sometimes I wonder if Google motto shouln’t be ‘Don’t be evil (but don’t naive either)’
The true scandal is Apple making fun of everyone because they think they’re so great that nobody can leave without an iphone. I’m looking forward Spotify app approval ….
great detection
ignore this, testing only. My funny comments have been eaten by the big A-monster. May have to do with me using the word “fsck” in my website url. Too bad.
oh wait. I just should have waited for them to appear as they’re obviously cached. Never mind, all fine, TC!
Hah! The article linked by that tweet was hilarious. Marissa, just make it clear you’re not tweeting on behalf of Google, then go have some fun….
Regarding why delete doesn’t actually work… does anything on Twitter actually work properly? Their engineers aren’t the most talented apparently.
ooo … ouch that hurts!
> Their engineers aren’t the most talented apparently.
Their management either
I don’t think she removed it due to it potentially causing offense. I think she removed it because some people may think it is real since she linked to it. Just look how the whole “Jeff Goldblum is dead” story got out of hand. People often just read the headlines of these stories and pass it on without thinking.
Twitter has undoubtedly done bad wid her…….;)
somehow i feel that AT LEAST TODAY she would be much better worried about other things than the google-doodle-google-voice-iphone whatever. you don’t doodle with Ballmer.
Apple is a strange company. They’re like that angry neighbor on your street. Why is he so angry? Nobody knows.
Techcrunch, enough with the fuking twitter shit.
Update: this is NOT AT ALL reminiscent of Randi Zuckerberg’s joke on Twitter about possibly deleted a club and its bouncer’s pages from Facebook.
“Play ‘em off, Keyboard Cat!!!”
Ok, I didn’t get the joke, and thought it was a real news report. Good to know….
She’s become as overexposed as Brittney Spears genitalia.
another slow news day. Quick, find some useless posts about twitter!
You might want to adjust your definition of ’slow news day’ http://www.tech....com/tag/yahoo/
It does not indicate which news sites she visits since her tweet says that she was forwarded the article. She got it in her mail.
I must say, Marissa needs a new wardrobe
but she’s still cute right, and can possibly get away with anything like somone before you suggested. lol.
Woud you add it to the story a few more grammatical?
ktb.
Wisdom words: anything posted on internet cannot be deleted.
Newtons modified 3rd law: Anything posted on internet cannot be destroyed. It only changes from one form to another.
it’s gone now…preferential treatment?
Ah, no, it’s not gone. Try the search shown in the picture in the article (from:marissamayer).
She’s funny, smart, and extremely good-looking. GG Google