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Use Google and True Love is Guaranteed

by Jaime Weinman on Monday, February 8, 2010 12:30pm - 7 Comments

Of the Super Bowl commercials we didn’t get to see in Canada because simulcasters are out to get us, this Google ad — demonstrating how their system can create a romance between a French girl and a guy who uses the computer way too much — was the most acclaimed. Josh Schwartz, creator of Chuck and Gossip Girl, called it “maybe the best commercial I’ve ever seen. Incredible storytelling. Genius.” It is a pretty good illustration in how you can tell a genuinely visual, dynamic story without any people.

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Trillium

Wow, that's very good. Short and fast, and yet several life-changing events.

Someone worked very hard on this to say a lot in a short time.
http://intensedebate.com/people/jolyon jolyon

It is a good ad, it gets across what Google does and many of us are suckers for a love story.

But the best non-funny commercial ever is this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJeXQniTKto

Trillium

All that in a beer, eh? Doubters.

Men are so easy, tho. LOL

http://intensedebate.com/people/jolyon jolyon

My Goodness, My Guinness

burlivespipe

Give me 'He -blanks- like Betty White', Gene…
Guest77

The only problem I see is: In France all marriages must be performed by civil authority (and not by the church).

That's what a bit of google-fu revealed to me… so… did they show that they do not know how to use their own search engine? ;-)
http://intensedebate.com/people/DerekPearce DerekPearce

I must be made of cold cold stone. Everyone I know is raving about this ad giving them goosebumps, and it seems only okay to me. Sure, it's a bit clever and contains some nice sentiment but that's it. Clever and sentimental do not a mind blow.