Get Disorganized with Google Desktop? (View post)Artem | Friday, December 29, 2006 17 years ago • 7,857 views |
If Google Desktop only worked. Errrgh, it fails when used with my multi-thousand email Outlook archive (partially on Exchange server) :( |
BobChao | 17 years ago # |
It should be "Get disorganized in 2007? Use Google Desktop....". |
Ionut Alex. Chitu | 17 years ago # |
Weird. I can't see this. (I get an ad for Google Pack.) |
Philipp Lenssen | 17 years ago # |
Suggestions for future Google homepage ads:
"Forget your dates. Use Google Calendar." "Clutter your desktop with Google Gadgets." "Find more spam with Google Blog Search." "Annoy Belgian publishers with Google News." |
Ionut Alex. Chitu | 17 years ago # |
No, not that. The idea could be: it's OK not to be organized, because Google Desktop saves you. |
David T | 17 years ago # |
I'm not seeing this ad either (on google.com browsing from the UK) |
Tony Ruscoe | 17 years ago # |
<< The idea could be: it's OK not to be organized, because Google Desktop saves you. >>
I suspect that's what they mean. But if I'm already organized, why would I want to get disorganized in 2007?
David T: I'm seeing it on Google.co.uk from the UK and Google.com from the US. |
TOMHTML | 17 years ago # |
"Burn your photograph album. Use Picasa." "Don't be the last to know. Use Google Reader." |
Norbert | 17 years ago # |
rofl, I think this was premeditated. |
Yann Dìnendal | 17 years ago # |
on www.google.fr it displays : "Pour bien débuter l'année, organisez-vous avec Google Desktop!", which is better. It means something like : "For a good beginning with new year, get organized with Google Desktop!" |
TOMHTML | 17 years ago # |
"Insult Russian spammers. Use Google Translate." :-)
PS : On Google.co.uk or google.com, I only see ads for Google Pack, no one for Google Desktop... maybe because I have already Google Desktop ;-) |
Tony Ruscoe | 17 years ago # |
"Get lost in 2007. Use Google Maps for directions."
(BTW, I think it's being geo-targetted in some way, which is why some people can't see it.) |
Ionut Alex. Chitu | 17 years ago # |
Tony: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/11/get-lost-and-found-on-your-phone.html |
Kirby Witmer | 17 years ago # |
I can see it and I'm in the US. |
Haochi | 17 years ago # |
I can only see the Google Pack ad, hmm, I don't have GDesktop installed. "Delete your server logs. We have Analytics" "Bye bye all your friends in 2007. Use Orkut to find new friends" ... |
Scott | 17 years ago # |
"Forget your appointments in 2007. Use Google Calendar ...." |
John Honeck | 17 years ago # |
"Google search: All Wiki, All Ebay, All the time!" |
Scott | 17 years ago # |
Dang, I didn't realize that Philipp had the idea about Google Calendar first. Consider my previous post to be alternative wording .... |
John Honeck | 17 years ago # |
"Google Webmaster Tools: Over 1,532,340 websites in and out of verification daily"
And have it be a little scrolling counter that clicks up and down as they randomly verify and deverify sites. |
anon | 17 years ago # |
Dude....unless someone is a bit lacking in gray matter, it is quite clear that the tip is ....well....just a tip and not a SERP :-)
Frankly, it has become quite boring to invoke "don't be evil" and "trust" etc. on things like these. You link to the Google letter/principles page ...but it sounds like you are just nitpicking on every little Google thing. Save the above invocations for when Google does really something what will harm user trust/confidence.
[Anon, I think you posted in the wrong thread. -Philipp] |
Elias Kai | 17 years ago # |
I would suggest to Google:
Were you disorganized in 2006 ? Use Google Desktop to find your files in 2007. |
Adam M. Donahue | 17 years ago # |
Horrible ad line. |
Stu | 17 years ago # |
Well, might be contradictory, but it sounds better than "Throw away 2 years of indexed web visits when Google Desktop goes tits up and nobody from their support team will lift a damn finger to help or suggest anything. In 2007." |
Alan Green | 17 years ago # |
I'm definitely into this disorganisation thing with GMail. Apart from deciding spam-or-archive, I haven't organised any email for two and a half years now. It just goes in the big bucket and I can find it any time I want. |
milivella | 17 years ago # |
www.google.it: "Disordinato? Nessun problema! Google Desktop troverà i tuoi file." Translation: "Disorganized? No problem! Google Desktop will find your files." It sounds better. |
Ian Davies | 17 years ago # |
On google.co.uk it now says "Get organised for the new year with Google Desktop."
That makes far more sense!
I don't see anything on google.com (I'm in the UK). |
Peter de Haas | 17 years ago # |
My guess is that 'disorganised' applies to no longer maintaining the good old folder structure in your filesystem / email client.
Anybody who has worked with a desktop search solution for quite some time understands this Google assumes.
As far as I am concerned they are right. I only use desktop search (not googles but the Windows Vista embedded) and find stuff instantly without bothering where it is actually stored |
Bas van Gils | 17 years ago # |
Perhaps the authors of the page are big fans of Terry Pratchett; after all he lets Vimes run around with a disorganizer all the time! |
Haochi | 17 years ago # |
Google has got themselves disorganized with Google Desktop... Read it here: http://googlified.com/2006french-or-finnish/ |
Ratatosk | 17 years ago # |
Mabye it's done extra ambiguous. A often used trick by advertisers. It catches you and makes you think about it a lot (also there can be spelling mistakes on purpose) |
Scott | 17 years ago # |
In wistful recoginition of the last answer on Google Answers (http://answers.google.com/) today, how about:
"Don't mourn for Google Answers. Organize with Google Desktop."
(Hat tip to Smithsonian Folkways. The Smithsonian folks entitled a stirring album on the songs of labor songwriter Joe Hill, "Don't Mourn – Organize!") |
Hong Xiaowan | 17 years ago # |
My old ad words is: Do you want a search engine for your pc? Use Google Desktop! |
Kill Gates | 17 years ago # |
Get pwnd in 2007! Buy Vista. |
Joe | 17 years ago # |
Ha, I saw this also, but it was on a search result page that I got this: Get disorganized in 2007. Use Google Desktop to find your [long URL] files.
[ Removed long, but incomplete URL – Ionut] |
Jimboratliff | 17 years ago # |
yeah forget getting organized. media management sucks. i hate picking up dvds and navigating outlook .pst file directories. if i could just think of a naming convention for recalling media ive experienced throughout the years |