True.
Read this from from Google’s earliest employee.
The hard-to-swallow news comes from a new book by one of Google’s earliest employees, a guy named Douglas Edwards. The book, I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59, hits stores this Tuesday – but The Wall Street Journal has a meaty excerpt online right now.
In the excerpt, Edwards describes a day when G-Founder Sergey Brin proposed using all of Google’s marketing budget to inoculate Chechen refugees against cholera. When that idea flopped, Edwards says Brin shot off a bold plan B:
“What if we gave out free Google-branded condoms to high-school students?”
Eh? Come again? Hang on, though: Strange as it sounds, we think the gCondom concept could actually be a stroke of genius. Proper sex, after all, is kind of like a Google beta product: An invitation is required for entry, hardware sometimes fails at the worst possible time, and even the biggest launch can feel premature.
• Google Condom Slogan #1: I’m feeling lucky
• Google Condom Slogan #2: SafeSex filter: moderate
• Google Condom Slogan #3: Showing results for engorged penis.
Search instead for inflamed venus?
• Google Condom Slogan #4: Notice: Queries may finish in fractions of a second.
• Google Condom Slogan #5: gRibbed for her pleasure
• Google Condom Slogan #6: Google: We know how to support a large index
• Google Condom Slogan #7: Caution, ladies: Hackers may find hole in back door
security
• Google Condom Slogan #8: Advertise inside! Text limited to 12 to 96 characters,
depending on the fella.
• Google Condom Slogan #9: Advertise inside! All ads calculated on a cost-per-clit
basis.
• Google Condom Slogan #10: Google doesn’t go down — but you should
• Google Condom Slogan #11: Note: Usage data automatically collected
• Google Condom Slogan #12: +1 (we hope)
• Google Condom Slogan #13: Measurement analytics available
• Google Condom Slogan #14: Warning: Server load may be greater than expected.
• Google Condom Slogan #15: Built by virgins, for virgins.
• Google Condom Slogan #16: Upgrade your Google Condom with Buzz (and no, we
aren’t talking about the social network).
• Google Condom Slogan #17: gCondom, gSpot. ‘Nuff said.
• Google Condom Slogan #18: Go ahead and laugh. It’s still bigger than Bing.
• Google Condom Slogan #19: Okay — maybe a little bit evil.
• Google Condom Slogan #20: Google Condom: It’s like McAfee for Mr. Happy.
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