Thursday, August 14, 2008

Google's Bundles of Joy

In one of his films Rajesh Khanna has this wonderful line “It is so simple to be happy but so difficult to be simple”. And it must be doubly difficult to be simple and yet make others happy. No one in this generation has done it better than Google, the company that’s given us the ubiquitous search option, which like a good massage is the answer to every problem. But besides its thoroughly utilitarian role Google also dishes out ever so often, some of the most memorable pictures interspersed into the letters of the word Google. I have seen so many of them to mark various events but even then I have been taken by surprise at the wonderful pictures that the Olympics have occasioned. In itself they couldn’t be doing anything for the company, not at least by way of increasing its revenues but for the sheer joy it brings to users like me, it’s an unprecedented piece of corporate social responsibility. For that matter, they could well put them on some tees and sell them as Google merchandise! Some people just don’t know how to make money.
You can see some of these visuals. For more just keep googling.