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If there’s one thing that we like to do at Marketing Pilgrim, it’s inject a little fun with the news we serve each day. Still, even I’m left wondering if a recent article on Google by the UK’s The Sunday Times goes too far with its humor.
The actual article content is pretty good–especially if you enjoy reading about the potential “big brother” conspiracy theory. Still, I cringed at all of the juvenile humor injected into the piece…
…the dome-headed maths nerds are facing their first big setback…
[Marissa Mayer] is annoyingly young “32″ and, even more annoyingly, wealthy – worth hundreds of millions of pounds…
…She does her best to deflect the wealth issue by wearing flats, a studiously plain grey-black dress, and a $50 plastic watch – a combination that shrieks: “I know you know I’m a zillionaire, but please treat me as just one of the girls.”…
The young, fast-talking blonde is the firm’s poster girl…
…she says in her curiously giggly voice.
…when Brin and Page were graduate students messing about with algorithms at Stanford University, California, when they should have been out getting laid.
I could go on, but you get the idea that the Times is shooting for “Valleywag” humor, but instead hitting “MAD” comic-book standards.
What do you think? Uber cool writing from a newspaper, or a very lame attempt to sound cool?
