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March 06, 2006

Dear Google: No more Google Image (literally and figuratively) for you

Google PowerPoint
So, I've been spending a great deal of time in PowerPoint, as of late. Almost as much as my flashgeek days, but nothing quite so cumbersome. Just a great deal of content that needs, nay wants, yearns, to be presented.

So, usually, what do I do when I need ideas? Search, search, search. And where better to search for presentation ideas than a presentation about search? Um. Well, anyway. So I grabbed the recent Google analyst day presentation.

Google PowerPoint
And, for the most part, I was impressed by the simplicity and clarity of the materials. But there were a few that just had me scratching my head.

How did the company that made simplicity so core to its brand allow this to enter the mix? I mean, c'mon guys. And this one?

Apparently all that access to flat stock imagery via Google Images has caused more problems than we all realize.

It just has me wondering. If the simple and geekily elegant Google home page can represent "all the information in the world," then why, praytell, clutter your communications with this useless fluff?



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