The massive Google billboard campaign underway now to promote Google Apps is the best spoof opportunity since the comic book announcing Google Chrome last year (here was our effort). And the first ones are starting to roll in. Here’s the spoof, followed by the official version. Can you do better? We want to see it.
Spoof:
Official:
For those too lazy to type: http://google.c...rosoftcansuckit
404ed, as anticipated.
Bring in the assaults for posting a redundant reply in 3… 2…
For those too lazy to click, Snap has done the hard work for you. LOL
a very unfunny spoof . they tried so hard it wasnt even funny.
it has its moments.
very few moments. . .
no, actually is has nothing funny…feels like pure crap and once again, a total waste of techcrunch posting space – please, seriously, write about real things…
I back this up. More “added value” content please.
agree – naughty words and taunting are seldom funny on their own. you guys are a big-time site…time to break up the smug little circle-jerk
The only people praising Goolge Apps are people who never have to use Excel…
That was my thought:
Day #6: Where’s my VLookup? Oh yeah, I’m using Google Apps. Shit.
Day #7: You mean you can’t see the doc? Just get a GMail address. . .you know you want to!
Day #8: Why doesn’t your spreadsheet work for me? You mean Excel does that and Google doesn’t? Shit.
repeat ad nauseum
Year 20 for MS Office: “This file is in use by username. Do you want to open a read-only copy?” (Usually followed by emailing files back and forth with ridiculous naming schemes).
Year 1 for Google Apps: Share with up to 50 simultaneous editors in real-time. No back end setup, all for free.
And to refute your other two claims:
Vlookup is here: http://docs.goo...amp;topic=20433
You don’t need a gmail/google account to view a shared file.
I have to wonder if you’ve even used Google Apps.
Can Excel do this?
http://www.yout...h?v=IzgaUOW6GIs
This is one of the reason I stopped using MS Office.
got a chuckle, in the end still a great post.
You’ve used Chrome OS?
Damn, replied to the wrong person. That was supposed to go to MK.
Use Chrome with Google Docs, and then you will see the true power of the online app formula. It is sort of like using MS DOCS without windows. That is why G apps is so important. You dont NEED windows. But maybe you need chrome… lol.
Guess what? You still need Windows to run Chrome. Especially since it does not run on any other platform reliably. If it takes Google to release the Google OS as it takes them to release Chrome for the MAC or Linux, you’ll be waiting for a while…
And even when it does get released, how will you run your business apps? Oh wait, I know… You will carry one laptop with Windows and one laptop with Chrome OS. And that will be okay because all laptops by then will be as thin as the MacBook Air…
Or, you carry one laptop dual-booting Windows and Chrome OS.
Why would anybody need to carry two laptops?
or just dual boot…
Since this video is bound to be popular so what Google should do now is make google.com/microsoftcansuckit
I hope Google somehow gets the humor/balls to enable the google.com/microsoftcansuckit url.
-jlb
I have to thank TechCrunch for “accepting” Google’s money. Otherwise, I would have never seen these billboards. Now I get to see them on TechCrunch all day long…
In all seriousness, these ads are really stupid and without merit. “Update Tuesday made me switch to Google?” – most of their users are still using PCs and will still have the Tuesday update. Even admins will still need to patch servers and workstations. What does that have to do with Google Apps? Is it Exchange patches or Office patches? Do they seriously think that there are no exploits in their code (even if it is web based)?
“Your inbox is full message made me go Google”? A well maintained email server will allow enough room for each user based on their usage and requirements. Can you honestly say that downloading a 10mb attachment will be faster on via a web client than a desktop client where the server handles the download and caching?
“The interns show me how to go Google”? – Gotta love this one – logging onto the domain and opening Outlook and seeing all of your email there is that much harder. I guess using office is much more complicated considering the fact that it has 1000s of features that are not included in the Google Apps suite. Lets see the interns creating a Pivot Chart with Google Apps or a mail merge. All those phantom Google Apps Wizards and Helpers are really coming in handy when the features do not exist.
What a joke…
Very well put Jim. Seriously though, let them switch. Its kind of like the natural selection for enterprises.
Just look at the docs that were taken from twitter. Looked like a bunch of 14 year olds brainstorming over their milk and cookies. Those are exactly the type of people who should switch to google apps.
Let us (the bright individuals) have our competitive advantage of using more robust feature rich software. You can have your Tyco Spreadsheets and joke of a email client. I’ve got rules, categories, auto sorting, archiving, etc.. I wouldn’t last 1 day on Gmail.
“I’ve got rules, categories, auto sorting, archiving, etc.. I wouldn’t last 1 day on Gmail.”
Gmail has rules and categories. No archiving, at least not in the Outlook sense. Of course dealing with massive PST files is a nightmare waiting to happen. What kind of terrible format requires WRITE access to the file (and actually does write every time) just to read it?
Outlook search is the real joke. How many versions of Outlook do they have to make before they get a REAL search? Even Lotus Notes got this right a long time ago.
“I’ve got rules, categories, auto sorting, archiving, etc.. I wouldn’t last 1 day on Gmail.”
Outlook rules / autosorting = Gmail filters
Outlook categories = Gmail tagging and stars
As for archiving, my Gmail inbox currently has a 7.3GB limit which gets bigger every day. How large is your Outlook/Exchange inbox?
Ever tried searching for some email intelligently in Outlook? It just doesn’t work.
When looking at just email in isolation, GMail is better than Outlook in every way.
The power of tagging alone is extremely powerful. It’s like being able to drop an email into multiple folders at the same time. If you’re a “filer” then the power of tagging is amazingly powerful when compared to Outlook categories.
Yes, multiple Outlook categories can be assigned to an email, but they don’t translate into a virtual folder unless you set up custom search folders one by one.
The use of keyboard shortcuts in Gmail will also make you vastly more productive when compared to Outlook.
You should seriously give Gmail a try.
After you learn the power of the Gmail features, I think you’ll wonder how you stuck with Outlook for so long.
I’m looking forward to more spoofs
What’s so great about this is, I didn’t understand wtf “go google” is all about by watching the “official” version, but I get it after watching the spoof.
Is the reason behind the timing from Google to thwart the launch of Win 7 from MSFT?
Thanks for posting my Go Google SPOOF!
Question – what are they going to do when a cloud hosted Office Web App is available?
Reminds me a bit of the push to Thin Computing back with Larry Ellison in the 90s.
Google Apps will still be free. The real issue here is that Google has a big math problem to overcome.
All business Users Worldwide – 1.75m = entrenchment.
If it were this easy, Apple would have gone after this market a long time ago.
Google Apps is not free.
It’s $50 per user annually.
The problem is… Google Apps sucks.
“Hello. I’m a Google.”
“And I’m a PC…”
It will actually be:
“Hello. I’m a Mac.”
“And I’m a Google.”
Theirs an App for that too!
That’s the funniest thing I’ve heard all day.
Shouldn’t they say “SUCK IT APPLE”?
Day #7: How cool. Gmail seems to know what I’m thinking!
Day #8: Google Apps downtime makes me realize I’m taking life too seriously.
Sure there is an endless list of things Google apps can’t do, but we all know that doesn’t matter to the general public. If this creates a ton of buzz, a ton of spoofs, and a ton of press, they will get what they want out of the campaign.
I have a feeling they will get a ton of bang for their buck out of this because of the spoofs.
Very smart of them.
BTW… Zoho kicks the shit out of Google Apps.
HAHAHA
ROFLMAO at the Spoof Video and that 404 Not found Link
Day #6: Google Apps goes down again?
Weather News. Dark Clouds in Mountain View and Sunny in Redmond!
Glad to see Google is recycling the billboards into bags and promo products post campaign.
“S*** IT MICROSOFT”????
Does US Government doesn’t have proper policy against using specific words on big hoardings, that too big companies using them against other companies?
Shame on Google and Shame on Govt not doing anything to curb such billboards