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Disappointed with Google
I have been walking around the ad:tech expo for the last 90 minutes. Took lots of pictures and a few on-the-spot video interviews. I then come upon the Google booth and one of their spots was promoting their Google Audio ad product. I asked the rep if he wanted to do an interview and said yes. We started and at about minute 2, a woman came over and said that this is completely prohibited and that I have to stop recording. Google does not allow this type of thing.
She said that I could email pr@ and ask for an interview but that the Google pr team would have to be present as well. I said fine, was forced to delete the video in front of her and walked away.
I am absolutely baffled as to why this man can talk about Google Audio for 36 hours over the next 3 days but not be able to be on camera for 1-2 minutes discussing his piece of Google. For a company that is supposedly so open and embraces their user community, and as someone who is a Google AdWords and AdSense customer, I really was a bit turned off.
It is a well known fact that Google is racialist. Are you black?
amazing how this "cool" company can be "strict"...
I do not think they stopped me for anything racially motivated. I believe that the "girl" in charge of the booth was trying to follow the manual she was given. They allowed me to take photos, but no video. Stupid. She could have (at a minimum) taken my information and had someone at Google PR contact me back to set something more formal up.
It is all about that Google is getting too lofty...
I guess it is hard to stick to your roots when your market cap is worth hundreds of billions.
They had no right to demand that you, press badge and all, delete the video their staffer agreed to have recorded - full stop.
You could (and I think should) have pointed the camera at her and kept rolling.
My 2 cents.
I still wonder if I had a CBS badge on would they have allowed it... or if I was in a suit and tie... or if I was a booth babe.Oh well, CN is too small for Google to care about I guess.