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Thursday, 22 September 2011

Google hypocrisy: “Do as I say, not as I do.”


One sure way to get slapped by Google is having, crude, hand drawn arrows on a page with not much content.

I love them because they work a treat. Anything that interrupts visually does.

Google hates them because “they don’t enrich the user's experience”. So what was on yesterday's Google screen?

A bloody great big scrawled arrow to promote google+. Well, fancy that.

Was my experience enriched? Yes. I laughed, and remembered this:

"Hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue - Oscar Wilde, I think.

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