Why Google Would Fool Even Freud: PR Deception
By DONNA BOGATIN • May 25th, 2008 • Category: BIG PICTUREUpon the launch of Microsoft Cashback, I was the lone blogger voice in signaling the BOLD competitive nature of the power Microsoft anti-Google move, while also pointing out an out of whack blogosphere which cheers Google free service giveaways, but pillories Microsoft for doing same.
Now, a man who claims to uniquely “spread the knowledge” of technology innovators via “books, online services, magazines, and conferences,” is trying his hand at Freudian analysis of Steve Ballmer, in a uniquely crude way. Not surpassingly, Tim O’Reilly relies on Wikipedia for his purported psychoanalytical analysis of veteran monopoly loving $261 billion dollar Microsoft, in favor of newcomer monopoly loving $172 billion dollar Google.
O’Reilly has a “has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism,” for the economic account of his high-priced “books, online services, magazines, and conferences,” and personal direct “alpha geek” investments.
Not only does O’Reilly miss the professional mark this Memorial Day weekend by injecting a low-brow, graphic, headlining metaphor tailored for a football locker room into the technology “conversation,” he reveals a Wikipedian-dependent lack of appreciation for why it is now Google which seeks to wreak a computing Freudian havoc.
Google is even scarier than Microsoft ever was, though, because while Google’s ambitions are universal, unequivocal and global, they are nevertheless couched in feel-good slogans, and are disarmingly–deceptively– FREE-OF-CHARGE
Google is plowing full-steam ahead to acquire, retain, manipulate and control of all the data in the world owned by all the individuals and organizations on the planet, within the global Google cloud, i.e. GOOGLE SERVER FARM MANIFEST DESTINTY!
Google, in fact, will do WHATEVER it takes to accomplish its worldwide domination mission, for the unique economic advantage of holders of GOOG, EVEN if it means publicly manipulating the U.S. government and the millions of hard-working taxpayers which fund it, i.e., the Google wireless spectrum 700 MHz wireless spectrum “bid” scam.
Google is no stranger to rigging auctions for the economic outcome it desires: THE ENTIRE GOOGLE FINANCIAL MODEL REQUIRES GOOG ALWAYS WINS BLACK BOX RULES!
I have long written that Google success is dependent upon a four-letter word: SPIN.
While Sigmund Freud is considered the “father” of modern psychoanalysis,” his nephew, Edward Bernays, has the “lofty” honor of being considered the ”father” of SPIN. In other words: PR!
Larry Tye on the “disturbing “ birth of public relations:
Some of the most interesting episodes of twentieth-century history, from the way American tobacco tycoons made it socially acceptable for women to smoke to the way other titans of industry persuaded us to pave over our landscape and switch to beer as the ‘beverage of moderation.’ The companies involved aren’t likely to release their records of those campaigns, assuming they still exist. But Bernays saved every scrap of paper he sent out or took in (and) let us see just how policies were made and how, in many cases, they were founded on deception.
GOOG: King of the Web world, and Googley PR deception.
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